Healthcare news is familiar,
like a bad dream.
I’ve heard it before,
though on a different subject.
When the kids were young,
and we went on vacation,
every few minutes they asked,
“Are we there yet?”

I don’t support everything
Obama does or doesn’t do,
but I admire his speaking ability.
He employed it with care and clarity
when he said “…the Cambridge police
acted stupidly in arresting somebody
when there was already proof
that they were in their own home.”
That doesn’t imply they are stupid
or act stupidly all the time. It means
they made a stupid mistake this [...]

To get elected, a candidate must convince others
they will get something for their money by investing
in his or her campaign — but not quid pro quo.
That’s the American way, but to make it work,
we must stop accusing self-righteous family values
crusaders, who commit adultery, of hypocrisy.
Weaklings break wedding vows. Those who
go back on implied [...]

I always believed we could learn.
Perhaps we can, but we rarely do.
I thought right wingers wore blinders.
They do, but we liberals do too.
Psychologist Drew Weston showed we
choose pleasant over unpleasant facts:
“…partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope
until they get the conclusions they want.”
I thought I spread political insights
like fertilizer on fields of healthy crops,
but one plant’s nourishment [...]