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Second ThoughtsAugust 30, 2005 Got home this morning after tending my charges (two horses, a mini and a Dales; two dogs; two cats) and took the Malamutt for his morning walk. It's been trying to rain -- maybe it's forgotten how? So far it's done better than it did last week: there are drops on the leaves outside my window! For sure the mosquitoes are encouraged: at one point I took a swat at my left calf and squashed four with one blow. Practice makes perfect, rain, and besides, we'll settle for considerably less. Keep practicing, rain. Anyway, I was having second thoughts about the title I put on last night's blog. Or third thoughts. I started with "The Whole World Is E-mailing" but it was clunky and a little obscure so I went with the original, "The Whole World Is Watching," a much-chanted phrase in my march-and-rally days. This morning the dissonance was getting to me. Back when, the message was that the whole world is watching, so you abusers and embezzlers of power better think twice before you do anything really awful. These days what the whole world is watching is people they don't know driving away from a place most of them have never been -- real reality TV, which is probably a direct or at least collateral descendant of bear-baiting and public executions. I considered "Hurricane," but for someone of my political background that carries heavy allusory baggage of its own, so how about "Blizzards and Hurricanes"? A little blah, but it would work. Then my butterfly mind lit on an image: the whole world watching reality TV, or the evacuation of New Orleans, tsk-tsking and covering their mouths and maybe beating their breasts about global warming -- and someone slips in and picks their collective pocket while they're rapt(urous)ly watching the catastrophe that might or might not unfold on TV. That's what I meant. That's exactly what I meant -- I just didn't know it yet. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. For now . . .
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