Wednesday, November 08, 2006
It’s been a long wait for the beleaguered minorities of the United States.
First off, I was ecstatic to read that there is finally a check on executive power with the Democrats taking control of the House and have a shot at the Senate (though in limbo, so who knows). A more jaded part of me wonders why it wasn’t the landslide it should have been, but given our history I’ll take what I can get.
Let’s just hope this party can do something besides make a fool out of themselves and start to take a part in forming the war, civil rights, spending, and all the other things that have gone awry in some positive way. A good start has been the purging of Rumsfeld. Here was someone determined to “stay the course” and that Bush saw as “going to be there throughout the term” as having done neither. The stubborn view our Republicans take works when you are going to church and raising children, but not in the complex world that we live in. Thanks, Bush, we already have a Pope, now it’s time to be a president.
Secondly, in more trivial matters, the Metropolitan Opera is actually going to be on Letterman tonight performing the finale from the first act of The Barber of Seville. The public will see some of the greatest singers of our time, Darmu, Florez, the Met Orchestra and Chorus, singing Rossini’s staple. For the first time since Beverly Sills, a broad American public – over-indulging in American Idol and horrid reality shows – can see what good taste in singing and real talent is.
In politics and in art there is a desperate need for a little elitism
First off, I was ecstatic to read that there is finally a check on executive power with the Democrats taking control of the House and have a shot at the Senate (though in limbo, so who knows). A more jaded part of me wonders why it wasn’t the landslide it should have been, but given our history I’ll take what I can get.
Let’s just hope this party can do something besides make a fool out of themselves and start to take a part in forming the war, civil rights, spending, and all the other things that have gone awry in some positive way. A good start has been the purging of Rumsfeld. Here was someone determined to “stay the course” and that Bush saw as “going to be there throughout the term” as having done neither. The stubborn view our Republicans take works when you are going to church and raising children, but not in the complex world that we live in. Thanks, Bush, we already have a Pope, now it’s time to be a president.
Secondly, in more trivial matters, the Metropolitan Opera is actually going to be on Letterman tonight performing the finale from the first act of The Barber of Seville. The public will see some of the greatest singers of our time, Darmu, Florez, the Met Orchestra and Chorus, singing Rossini’s staple. For the first time since Beverly Sills, a broad American public – over-indulging in American Idol and horrid reality shows – can see what good taste in singing and real talent is.
In politics and in art there is a desperate need for a little elitism
# posted by otas : 6:33 PM
