tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post6632177080902758318..comments2024-01-04T19:27:02.335-08:00Comments on Zenpolitics: The benefits of rational sanityJohn Hilleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-69001406228203961322013-04-05T16:18:21.709-07:002013-04-05T16:18:21.709-07:00Thanks for that lovely message, Rose, and your mel...Thanks for that lovely message, Rose, and your mellifluent melding of meaningful metaphors.<br /><br />JohnJohn Hilleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072819649049077782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1725411122663433189.post-6933435557587678672013-04-05T12:29:38.548-07:002013-04-05T12:29:38.548-07:00Yes John - I've often been accused of disappe...Yes John - I've often been accused of disappearing up my own fundament, but take comfort from the fact that at least it's mine, and no-one else's.<br /><br />As you say grounding is all - and these clowns fall over their own feet, so sometimes all that needs to be done is to point out that the twerps have no clothes on - money in tax havens is not circulating and therefore not doing what even capitalism demands of it - ie "growing"; welfare and benefit cuts are counter-productive; the crooks fall down even by their own miserable standards. Mark Steel seems attuned to the zeitgeist for effective trumpeting of the bleedin obvious to a wider and younger audience.<br /><br />Meanwhile I in my small corner plug away, and am grateful to you in yours, for the pure clear light shining through th'encircling gloom. Now how's that for a mix of metaphors and hymns? - enough to make my old English teacher's eyes water. <br /><br />Thanks for a great post.Rosenoreply@blogger.com