"I Don't Know Where To Begin" Is A Lame Blog Post But...

These are strange times. The late 60's and early 70's were strange times but there seemed to be a spontaneity to the strangeness. With the Vietnam War and Watergate there was never a slow news day but even so, there were it seems, a lot of random events that just happened to cascade.

There were assassinations and riots and more riots and the Manson Family and mad bombers and soap models leading secret lives as porn stars. Just when you thought it was safe to open the papers, the New York Yankees swap wives. It was tough to keep on top of events in those days.

The past few years have been similarly overwhelming. The difference between now and then is that all of today's controversies are generated by the same people (or folks as they are now referred to in some circles) and the news media don't like to report on these people folks. For two weeks the news cycle was consumed by the George Zimmerman trial, a travesty engineered from the highest echelons of power.

There is much to say about the Florida Circus but for once, most of the media seemed to report accurately and fairly on a topic. This was politics masquerading as justice and most of the pundits said so. It was not one or two things wrong with this picture. This fiasco was flawed from its genesis.

Meanwhile, we did not discuss Prism or the impugning of and spying on journalists or the IRS or Benghazi, to say nothing of one more Fast and Furious death http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130705/NEWS06/130709586&source=RSS, or that Obamacare was delayed one more year because it is so wonderful or that Janet Napolitano raced out of town and there was some kind of immigration bill and on and on and on.

If every armed robber in the country struck at 1 PM on Wednesday, a lot of robberies would go unsolved. That seems to be the way Barack Obama operates. Carpet bomb them with falsehood, deception and scandal and maybe they will get lost in the chaos. It's worked so far.

Will it work forever?