Another Fool on Capitol Hill

The Beatles are my favorite band. But this doesn't change the fact that Paul McCartney smoked a lot of pot in the 60's and has no idea what he's talking about outside of music. Over the weekend, after receiving some needless award from the president, he remarked that "after eight years, it's good to finally have a president who knows what a library is."

Nevermind the fact that George W. Bush was married to a librarian. Or that he spent more, in both inflationary and real terms, on libraries than any president in history.

I know a lot of our readers don't follow politics and don't understand why people like me even bother.  And it's in moments like these I think those people actually have a point: because the dialogue becomes so convoluted and devoid of facts/history/etc. that it's generally not worth following.

I mean, the main reason I didn't like Bush is because he did something that McCartney is falsely attacking him for not even doing.  It would be like bashing the writers of Lost for trying to answer too many questions in the season finale.  It's so off-base and unfounded yet it is the general perception and dialogue that plagues and enslaves people into the left vs. right debate in this country.

There's a reason my favorite McCartney song is "Think For Yourself."  Oh wait, that one was by George.  Zing.