Post Partisianship and Heath Ledger

Um, so I just have a few points I want to make. We Americans will never get past partisanship. Just can't do it. The us v. them, enemy v. friend, Joker v. Batman, Hutu v. Tutsi, yin v. yang, Kobe v. Shaq mentality is just ingrained in the human psyche. Evolutionary, biological, chemical -- whatever the cause, it's a phenomenon that won't go away. Wait, I got an theory on the cause. The universe is too complicated for any of us to fully understand. To understand ourselves and our place in that universe requires us to define ourselves by who we are not. And so to deal with the uncertainty, we must always find an enemy.

Regardless of whether you buy into that explanation or not, just know that I want to go on record now (future edits notwithstanding) that if Barack Hussein Obama wins the election, he will not be remembered as a president who destroyed partisanship. I mean, I believe him that he wants to move beyond partisanship. And I believe there are others who do as well. I'm just saying it won't happen cause they are vastly outnumbered. There's too many people in this country that will never move beyond tribalism, no matter how that tribalism is reflected. And in our first world modern post industrial society, our tribalism is the partisanship where the enemies are members of another political party.

I mean, c'mon people. Seriously. If you don't think you're part of the problem here, write down your political principles -- you know, all the reasons that you said you hated a candidate -- then hold yourself to a standard of complete honesty -- to see how and when those principles waiver. Cause they will waiver, they always do. (Many ideologues now denounce Bush for going away from conservative principles like expanding the size of the federal government and debt but when creating new entitlement programs resulted in electoral success there was a curious silence.) And what it comes down to in a lot of cases is essentially just picking a side and sticking with it. A predetermined friend versus the amorphous enemy.

Also, must keep my word about reviewing the Dark Knight. It was good, not great and Heath Ledger was pretty awesome.

Going solo

After months of soul searching and countless hours of interviewing some of our nation's best and brightest minds, I've decided to continue the promise of pear sandwich solo. I just didn't feel that any of these people understood exactly what a pear sandwich is let alone how to find one and properly eat it. Sarah, who long ago did understand, is no longer capable.

So Sarah's mom filled me in on Sarah's whereabouts after our date in the back of my car. Sarah, as many of you know, is a semi-literate alcoholic with a whale-like shapeliness. Out of ice for her weekday cocktail she booked a flight to the Arctic to get some more. Mistaken for prey she was harpooned in the skull, rendering her a drooling shell of her former drooling shell of a person. She now spends her days plotting the simplest of revenges upon the Inuit people. (Small pox blankets have already been done Sarah. These ones who survived are resistant.)

So, like I said, I must now move forward. A story of perseverance in the face of adversity. A man unafraid to face life alone. Blogging alone. Dining alone. Most likely dying alone. Like all the great tortured geniuses who have come before me. Don't pity me. It's the cross that I bear, and I have grown accustomed to its weight.

Ohh, and lookout for my next post where I will be reviewing the Dark Knight.