Tandra Page 1082, March 7, 2010

Created on 03/07/2010

by Hanther

There are advantages to learning to draw. One advantage is that artistic ability might get you out of a tight spot in which power mad politicians are planning to kill you, but don’t count on such convenient means of escape as a dependable guarantee of long life. However, it has been a fact of history that artists, including musicians and poets, who could please their masters were held in high regard under past regimes. It’s also true that artists who displeased their masters generally made poor insurance risks. In The Odyssey, the hero returns home to find low lifes raiding his pantry and attempting to force his wife into marriage. He promptly whacks them all, without mercy, including the priests. He spares the poet, however. It is an observation worth taking into account.

I just happened to get lucky this time round.

Switch to Earth and the ever loveable Senator R. Miles Haggerty showing his appreciation of a good joke. The demands of story telling aside and the consideration Senator Haggerty is not a literal representation of a current sitting senator, I expect his evaluation of voters rings pretty much true. Politicians are just generally careful to be sure you are not aware of their true contempt for their constituents.

That is a condition that appears to be evolving as I type this since it would appear your average politician today is not so reticent as in days of yore about expressing his total contempt for voters.

Welcome to America in the Twenty-first Century!

May the sun always shine on your parade!

Next Week; “Phone Exchange”

Tandra...more than escapist fantasy, it’s a revolution!

Hanther

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