For some reason known perhaps only to Nancy Pelosi(’s speechwriter), at 4:06 in this video, Pelosi uses Carl Sandburg’s famous image of “little cat feet” to describe how the gigantic, once-in-a-century financial crisis came upon us. You figure it out.
The Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
I found this interview on TV this afternoon, and was floored. It’s as if this man, Andrew Bacevich, understands everything I have sensed about the meaning of America, the problems in our politics, the reasons why our pre-emptive war doctrine is wrong at its core, but can elicit it better than I could ever imagine.
I encourage everyone to watch this interview in full; watch the first five minutes at least and see if you like it. The second half can be found on PBS’ website here. I recently reached my credit card’s promised land, earning a $25 gift card for amazon. I’ve been trying to decide what to buy with it, and I was leaning toward buying some Space Ghost Coast to Coast DVDs, but this guy has a book out, and it’s going down for me.
