She Just Can't Be Chained...

to a life where nothing's gained,
and nothing's lost...
at such a cost.

Friends, do we really think anyone "won" in this most recent episode of political immaturity in Washington? Really? You think that? -- that either "side" comes out smelling good after our latest fiscal fiasco?

From Athens — where an American default could have turned an unending economic crisis into catastrophe — Nikos Konstandaras wrote in the daily Kathimerini that Aristophanes, the master of ancient Greek comedy, “would have loved the idea of a group of lawmakers exploiting their position to abolish the state they are sworn to serve.

For Greece’s ancient tragedians, the vain indifference, the ignorance of dangers caused by our character and actions, was familiar material.” The question, he added, was whether America is “the scene of comedy or tragedy.”

Sadly, most revealing is the way the media breathlessly mis-covers these mini-crises: as a binary horse-race that requires naming a "winner" and a "loser".

Nobody won.
We all lost.

That we can't yet acknowledge the fact does not bode promising for our collective future...