Yep. I'll be your age in a few months -- which means, essentially, I already am -- and although I'm still in pretty good shape, still ride my motorcycle, still climb my 20 foot extension ladder to trim trees around my house, and still split and stack firewood for a month every summer to burn in my wood stove during the winter, I know damed well I've lost a step or three. I worked a very physical job for 40 years and didn't retire at 66 because I really wanted to, but because I had to -- my mind could still write those on-the-job checks, but my body wasn't interested in cashing them. But the beauty of a job like that is ... you know when it's time to quit. All politicians do is talk for a living, and everybody knows how those of us of a certain age like to bloviate, so a political lifer seldom hears the tolling of that bell.
The Dems are seen as old and sclerotic, and for good reason -- if they don't change that perception by altering the reality, we'll be under the yoke of lunatic right wing zealots until the end of time.
Yep. I'll be your age in a few months -- which means, essentially, I already am -- and although I'm still in pretty good shape, still ride my motorcycle, still climb my 20 foot extension ladder to trim trees around my house, and still split and stack firewood for a month every summer to burn in my wood stove during the winter, I know damed well I've lost a step or three. I worked a very physical job for 40 years and didn't retire at 66 because I really wanted to, but because I had to -- my mind could still write those on-the-job checks, but my body wasn't interested in cashing them. But the beauty of a job like that is ... you know when it's time to quit. All politicians do is talk for a living, and everybody knows how those of us of a certain age like to bloviate, so a political lifer seldom hears the tolling of that bell.
The Dems are seen as old and sclerotic, and for good reason -- if they don't change that perception by altering the reality, we'll be under the yoke of lunatic right wing zealots until the end of time.