Conservatives Have Been Right...Rarely

I listened to Bonnie Rait tonight on a program on one of the music channels on TV. I like her, but I do hate music video sometimes.

Television is growing more and more irrelevant to me. I don't know why. I used to site and listen to it for hours. I had favorite shows. I needed the mindlessness of TV. Now, it't just not mindless...it's stupid. There is a difference.

Tomorrow, there will be another episode of Story Corps. It's one of those programs that tends to make me tear up when I listen to it. Not all the time, but too often. I don't need that. They should avoid the maudlin stuff.

I listened to an interview tonight on some FOX channel. It is unsettling to hear such stuff. The "liberal" who was being interviewed and attacked by the FOX News fascists was presenting a bad front for progressive thought. I was appalled that the conservative hosts were making much more sense than the liberal guy. Sometimes liberals get too caught up in the ideology that they let their common sense be overrun. I'm middle of the road on some issues, I guess, which is right in my mind. I am so concerned, though, that purists of the liberal stripe can really screw our case when they take their attitudes to extremes and argue against irrefutably good logic presented by the right wing wierdos. Sometimes, we just need to acknowledge that they are not always wrong. Sometimes, they speak logically. And we need to get over our screeching and give ourselves credibility by acknowledging that they can make sense from time to time.

Just because a person is a conservative does not make the person wrong....usually, perhaps, but not always.