Wednesday night, the local NBC affiliate broadcast the late news between segments of Olympic coverage. It's been a slow news week in Tennessee, just the usual murder and mayhem, corruption and ineptitude that increasingly characterize life here in this place OldSouth loves so much.
Then along comes this story!
Sorry, the video won't imbed, you'll have to hit the link.
A high school choral teacher, in a tough tough neighborhood in the shadow of the State Capitol, doing an inspiring job with kids who need someone to look up to.
So, after a week of sleazy governors, sleazier bankers, financially bankrupt Greeks, morally bankrupt politicians, and general idiocy, OS hopes you find Mr. Peter inspiring.
Here's an exercise: View the video, and then surf over and read about Governor Paterson.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
Betcha that numb feeling you've had since September 2008 will leave, and you'll get in touch with your inner sense of outrage.
When that Gibralter of Far-Sighted Virtue, Bill Clinton, ran for President in 1992, he had a key advisor who kept hammering home one point: It's the economy, stupid.
Nothing else matters, just keep the cash flowing. Nobody cares about all that ethics shit, anyway. Ethics are for fools. Ethics are something you dredge up when you need to beat someone around the ears. Ethics are for other people. You just concentrate on the money-and-power-thang, ok?
That model does not seem to have served us well.
It's the Culture. And OS respects his readers too much to call them 'Stupid'.
Llewellyn Peter, Green Shoots nominee.
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