Ding dong

So Reagan died over the weekend. Not to be morbid, but he's been at the top of my dead pool for some years now [sharing the throne with the Pope]. And, as I wasn't savvy enough to write his obituary a long time ago and slacked off this weekend, pretty much everyone beat me to the punch. And all of those responses are only on one lousy site! We've already descended into sufficient meta-analysis that commentators are already bitching about the coverage.

It was bad enough when Reagan was actually in office in terms of the country's divisiveness, let alone now. And considering that his love of deficits and contempt, or at the very least indifference, to inconvenient facts are but a mere antecedent of today's regime. I hated Reagan from the beginning, despite being only six years old at the start of his first term. Time and time again, folks from different venues strenuously disputed the facts upon which Reagan's policies were based, and at various points asserted that he was unable to tell movies from reality. Perhaps the day will come when public servants set policy on empiricism, which is to say, facts. But that day has been postponed by Reagan, and even more so by Bush. We'll see how ugly things will get before they start to get better. I try not to listen to this guy too much, but I'm a little worried that he's right.