I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing is a personal blog by freelance writer Jack Curtin about politics, books, television, comics and the vargaries of life in a post-rational world. Its basic political premise is that George W. Bush is the Worst. President. Ever. On everything else, it is basically agnostic but awfully opinionated. http://www.jackcurtin.com/mermaid/index.com Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST "I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing" has moved to http://jcurtin.wordpress.com/. Please stop by and change your bookmark for the site. Thanks. http://www.jackcurtin.com/mermaid/archive/jan08.htm#21jan Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:59:00 EST "I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing" will be moving into a standard blog format using WordPress shortly (possibly with a new name to mark the shift). Hang in there; I'll try to make it worth the wait. http://www.jackcurtin.com/mermaid/archive/jan08.htm#19jan Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:15:00 EST I'm not ready to succumb to Obama-mania just yet, but that was a helluva victory speech last night, wasn't it? Echoes of Jack Kennedy and Bill Clinton at their best. What makes me nervous about Obama, aside from his youth (and it pains me that youth has suddenly become a question for me, yet another sign that I grow old, I grow old), is that he still seems to believe that it would be possible to maintain an effective working relationship with the current GOP leadership in Congress...or anywhere else. Whichever Democrat is the next president of the United States must understand that any such relationship will be impossible; that the right wing scream machine will continue to lie, distort and mislead the hardcore haters to oppose his (or her) efforts in every way, that you cannot, should not, must not try to achieve conciliation with those who are not--not ever--conciliatory. http://www.jackcurtin.com/mermaid/archive/jan08.htm#04jan Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:00:00 EST As we stand here on the precipice, waiting for a miniscule number of Iowa farmers to decide our fates by providing the fodder for the political media to decide who the "viable" candidates will be, I have sunk into a mixture of anger, despair and emerging ennui. More and more, this nation's day-to-day history unfolds like a bad sitcom, only with torture and lies. http://www.jackcurtin.com/mermaid/archive/jan08.htm#02jan Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST Sophie may not be Snoopy, but she's the dog philosopher for the 21st Century. http://www.jackcurtin.com/mermaid/archive/jan08.htm#01jan