The Broken Soldier

Holy sheep shit!  I just finished watching Good Will Hunting’s Palin declamation.  Wow!  Yes Will, it is important, given actuary tables, to know whether the VP candidate believes dinosaurs roamed 4k years ago.  I mean, really, how can we sleep at night knowing a Creationist has the codes?

I imagine this was Will’s attempt to paint Palin a dumber color.  Zinn forbid one’s beliefs be informed by their religious commitments.  The Socratic irony is thick.  So thick Will’s false conceptions shouldn’t really require adroit questioning to reveal them so.

I don’t know Sarah Palin.  I don’t know much about her.  For the past two years, my concernments and limited attentions have, out of necessity, been focused inward as opposed to on which asshole will sit in the White House at year’s end.  As such, I don’t know if she’d make a good VP.  I don’t even know what it means to be a good VP.  But I do know one’s beliefs regarding dinosaurs got nothin’ to do with the decision to approve or disapprove a nuclear strike against an enemy.  In addition, I have to believe, though I haven’t followed the election, there are substantive issues to discuss.  So long as we focus on the trivial pursuits of semi-gifted actors (which, by the way, doesn’t qualify these fucking gadflies to speak to political matters or any other in an expert’s tone), we won’t be focused on substantive issues.