Hi all!

Sorry to keep you waiting.  I really hope you haven't been holding your breath, not because I don't have anything great to say (I always do) but because you would be dead by now and then I wouldn't have any readers.  You're family would also be pretty upset, too.

And now onto the news.  While Capitol Hill has spent today celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr., the greatest leader of American civil rights, W&L's Hill has recently instituted a voluntary form of slavery known as pledgeship*.  In these hallowed weeks, young men will ignore all of their learned and proprietary behaviors in order to win the affection of their peers.  In a way, 18-year old men revert back to little boys.  In looking at the campaign trail and the nteenth debate that is occurring right now, this devolution doesn't stop upon reaching middle-age.   

Perhaps this is just Fox's way of showing multiple candidates in one frame, which allows America to see the immediate reactions of the men, but these candidates look increasingly like little, petulant boys.  Mitt consistently makes funny shapes with his eyebrows.  Newt has started crying.  Perry doesn't realize his own irrelevance.  Negativity has run amok in South Carolina.  Add a soapbox car and a frog and you've got a deleted scene from The Little Rascals.  And I say deleted because these characters are not worthy to stand next to Spanky and Buckwheat.  

However, like any wide-eyed, albeit naive, youth, I still have hope.  Maybe.  I'm not sure any more.  But I'll be sure to fill you in on my musings along the way.    

* Disclaimer:  W&L's admission's office will revoke my diploma if I do not state that all pledge activities are approved by the IFC.