John Hayward (Doctor Zero) Buries the Needle on the Excellent-Writing/Analysis Meter Yet Again HotAir.Com because it makes anyone who ever aspired to great writing and critical thinking turn "Green" with envy to read his work.
One of the reasons the Nanny State has gotten so far in the United States in recent decades is that too many people of common sense have been deterred from seeking to halt and reverse such trend because they deemed it futile to do so. Hayward explains cogent reasons for optimism that passivity enthroned by such sense of futility is being deposed by optimism being revived by those of us who not only have participated, and will continue participating, in 9-12 rallies, tea-party rallies and town-hall rallies but also will participate in the most important "rally" in November, 2010, inside the voting booth.
One of the reasons the Nanny State has gotten so far in the United States in recent decades is that too many people of common sense have been deterred from seeking to halt and reverse such trend because they deemed it futile to do so. Hayward explains cogent reasons for optimism that passivity enthroned by such sense of futility is being deposed by optimism being revived by those of us who not only have participated, and will continue participating, in 9-12 rallies, tea-party rallies and town-hall rallies but also will participate in the most important "rally" in November, 2010, inside the voting booth.
Not only does John Hayward (Doctor Zero) insightfully recognize this, he has the linguistic skills to explain it in his cogent writing. One quotation from his column, "The Pillars of Apathy," on June 13, 2010, exemplifies his rallying-cry that common-sense will, after all, prevail:
"It will be difficult for the American giant to rise again
but history unfolds in the space between difficult and impossible."
Jim is a proud descendant of 18th Century criminal exiles from England who swam to the Outer Banks when the British ship taking them to a Georgia penal colony sank in a storm near Cape Hatteras. Having the prescience to prevent their descendants from becoming "TarHeels," they immediately migrated to Virginia, where, within just a few generations they worked their way up into poverty. Jim's grandfather was the first in the family tree to see the distant horizons, but his career was cut short by severe injuries he sustained when a cousin cut down the tree.
After a brief stint in the Amry (ours) following graduation from law school, he began his legal career in the state bureaucracy but was never able to break into the federal bureaucracy. Several years later, he entered the private practice of law and co-founded a small law publishing company. Later, finding the publishing of small laws unstimulating and finding his private practice too private to be lucrative, he began writing political satire/commentary. His greatest vice is taking himself too seriously.
Although he regularly teaches Continuing Legal Education courses to lawyers, he's too-often available through he Rubber Chicken Speakers Bureau to speak on politics, satire, etc., at luncheons, dinners, root canals, funerals, etc. His speaking fees are so outrageously high they border on criminal price-gouging, but as a free-market advocate, he defends his fees on the higher moral ground of charging whatever the traffic will bear. For more information (surely more than one would want or need), go to www.PoliSat.Com.
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