"You Cheated, You lied...." And don't we all....

So two things come to mind as the Sunday weather turns to clouds. Coming back from Italy, I was meandering in the chic organic supermarket nearby, with a headline that took me by surprise (not enough for me to buy the paper, yes!) The cover read, "I lied to you and I cheated", or was it "I cheated and I lied to you". The latter makes more sense since it drove my brain into the words and melody of the oldy but goody, "You cheated, You lied, you said that you loved me, You cheated, you lied, you said that you want me...Oh what can I do, etc" It's time for a comeback for the song, that seems a sure hit. Check it out...

And then there is our country, it's sexual hype mixed with all the prudity and prissiness, and how sad. John Edwards was my favorite candidate in the beginning of the race, though the sugar in the stories about the mines or farms and about how hard Daddy worked and all that, had started to get on my nerves.

But really is it not sad that an affair is not only everyone's business, but could ruin a man's candidacy. And not that lying is great, even though it's sometimes necessary, but the question is more: What kind of society are we in, that no one admits defeat, vulnerability, slips, ambivalence, lapses, great experiences on pot and more, and all kinds of juicy and lustful and mean thoughts, etc.

So how's about we're all taught to lie, in really big ways. The "great" American, who can admit no flaws, has to be a liar; even the people passing for honest can't possibly stand the impossible standards.

George Carlin, whom I miss, surprisingly for me, would have done the best routine on this one. My imagination tells me that he would do a great job of making fun of our hypocricy. He would have reminded us that these standards would take all the fun out of life: what with no wickedness of thought or deed, we would be so bored. He might have set us straight. But that's a dream too; we are among oh so many people who are so very precious and pure in their own minds and who stay full of themselves.

Back to the song, however--it's a great one, a least it seemed that way back then. As for John Edwards, I am going to talk directly to him for a moment: I wish, John, that you didn't have to work so hard to prove your purity, and even now that you have been humiliated by someone hired to do a job on you and the Democrats. I wish you could find the guy or woman and point to who really should be apologizing.

Spin doctors, you are all cheating, and have all cheated. And even if you stayed within the closets of your grandiosity, you are cheating us all by doing this creepy stuff of breaking a person's life, marriage, and all the chances of a life. And yo' this is so sick, that even the best of candidates have to say that they pray and to whom and how happy and perfect they are.

Okay, no preaching...I mean no more...later...