Fresh meat on Sirens..I would like to introduce Trog69..a humorous old coot who is usually spot-on with his assessments of the New World Order. ~ Dusty

I really respect and admire Glenn Greenwald, but I watched him on BloggingHeads.tv debating Anne Marie Cox and I gotta say, he is one sour mofo. Not a Jon Stewarts guide to Democracy Inaction hint of a smile for a solid hour. It really distracted me from focusing on his comments ’cause I kept wanting to tell him to fer Chrissakes, loosen up. thwap’s schoolyard, another blog I really like, has much the same problem. We argued yesterday after he posted about how Jon Stewart should quit kidding around about Iraq, because we Americans (Yeah, he’s a Canadian) are not worked up enough about stopping the war. I might have agreed that perhaps we should watch other programs besides The Daily Show, but to suggest that an Anchorman on a FAKE news show, on the Comedy Channel, should get serious, is a bit much. Thwap has poked the eyes of a whole mess of Righties, nailed them with some real zingers, so I know he’s got a funny bone there, somewhere.

These are two who I admire greatly for their outstanding work for the true progressive movement, and for human rights globally. I just think that, as we see greed and warmongering and are outraged over injustices done to the weak and needy, sometimes ya gotta pull yourself back from the bleak, and try to temper it with some humor.

Self explanatory I have a confession to make. I’ve read many Ann Coulter articles, and laughed. With her, not just at her. She does know how to stick the shiv in, and twist that sucker around a few turns. Yes, she looks like Stretch Armstrong reaching so far out there to tie the Left to all things unholy, but once in a while she does finally catch that damned fly, and it’s a hoot. Ya know what I think? I bet if she knew that a leftie like me laughed, along with the ignoramuses that agree with her, at her skewers of the populist worldview, it’d piss her off a little.