Comments on: Pelosi on moving forward

By: Fran Johns

Fran Johns — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:43:17 +0000

Maybe we should all just inhale deeply and then go, in unison: GROW! BUILD! THINK! ….. I wanted to throw in Give Everybody Decent Health Care, but if we had a little thinking we would get health care for all. I’m afraid you’re not alone under that black cloud, Valerie.

By: Valerie Andrews

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:59:19 +0000

I’ve been under the influence of the Romanian parapsychologist for the past week, as I try to imagine what “moving forward” will look like. Under this black cloud, I realize that human kind has so far stopped growing things (the move from agriculture to the cities), then stopped building things (the end of manufacturing and the rise of information technology), and has now actually stopped thinking things of any note(hence we are unable to respond rationally to the serious problems from healthcare to global warming.

After we stop thinking, there’s only one thing left. Stop breathing. Some people seem to think that this will lead us to The Rapture and are pretty excited about this possibility.

Would somebody please get this Romanian parapscyhologist off my back?

Thanks, Fran, for the Blog of Sanity.

By: Fran Johns

Fran Johns — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:41:38 +0000

Well, I thought I could kid about it because surely we don’t have people running around putting hexes on people in the U.S., do we? I know two avowed witches, but neither practices witchcraft. I have to admit, though, that Romanian name-dropping — Traian Basescu-Mircea Geoana-Aliodor Manolea — is so like reciting poetry it’s easy to lose one’s train of thought. But as to your very valid question: No, I hope Romanian parapsychology is not contagious.

By: rockyinlaw

rockyinlaw — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:54:30 +0000

I made the mistake of clicking on the AP link embedded in your next-to-last paragraph. Could hardly believe my eyes. Is it contagious, I wonder? I’d hate to see what some groups we’ve all lately seen on TV and heard from on blogs would do if they unleashed their own superstitions … holy mackeral.

By: Fran Johns

Fran Johns — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:03:23 +0000

I started to parse those phrases — such as, it’s “health INSURANCE reform” now — but decided I’d be over my head in a hurry. So I’m just keeping the faith. That is, unless we can put the hex on the opposition.

By: deborahnb

deborahnb — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:52:33 +0000

Nancy please I beg of you, don’t now create a way to feel shaken by your out of touch words. I am such a fan of you why why R U seeming so lost in the ‘before this’?