Ron Washington Wisdom
Speed Up and Pass That Hearse, Honey
Posted by TFG on December 30th, 2006
Yeah, we wouldn’t want anyone to slow down and reflect on what the hell America was, is, can be, while we plant one of 43. Better to be swapping sow belly futures and delivering sheafs of pizza coupons and another offer for mortgage insurance to their bulk-rate one-stop waystation to the trashcan.
Trust me on this one, Jeff — Howard Stern will still be on your satellite doing titty jokes, Amanda Congdon will still be in your internet tubes doing your titty shows, and approximately 240MM Americans won’t even realize that one of forty-three is now dust.
I think my position on this probably makes me a conservative hack, but then, I still pull over to the side of the road for any funeral procession I chance upon, whether I know who it is or not.
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You’re not the only one Scott. I still pull over to the side of the road too. My Daddy always said, in his wonderfully frank way, “If you can’t give some poor bastard a minute of respect on his way to the graveyard you’re a pretty sorry excuse for a human.” Gerald Ford was a good man. Maybe not brilliant, maybe not a guy who changed the country forever, but he got handed a real pile of bovine by-product and did the best he could with it. We owe him his due on the way to the graveyard.
Did you happen to see Mr. Jarvis’ last comment on this? He now concludes that this is nothing but another excuse to have a day of shopping. The willingness to so casually discard tradition and the idealism which leads us to want our leaders to aspire to such worthiness is galling. I guess the only reason for Mr. Jarvis to pull over for a state funeral is if he needs to take a break so he can piss on their graves as well.
It’s a pathetic progression. In the first twenty-four hours Ford was a standup guy of great decency. By the end of the second day he was maybe two bricks shy of a load, and by the third day he was an absolute dumbass who’d played football too often without his helmet. Government is always looking for an excuse to take off work.
I think pulling over for funeral processions is the right think to do; it’s how I was raised. The trouble is if you do that in these parts, it’s a good way to get run over, honked at, and given the finger.
Self-centered type A yuppies.
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