As I’ve aged, I’ve learned things I truly did not understand when I was young, when I was full of piss and vinegar thinking that I had all the answers in my head and the energy to put those answers into practice against any opposition.

When I was young, the term “bandwidth” was used only by a very few, and those few didn’t even have a conception of the Internet, towards which the majority who use the term today apply it.

Yet the term itself is so descriptive that it applies to much more than the transmission of data over some kind of connection; it is an apt word to use for our lives, for we have only limited time and attention to devote to any one thing.

I seem to have lost bandwidth somewhere in the furor of blogworld intersecting with my personal life along with what I see as the complete breakdown of the Constitutional limitations on governmental power, and I cannot seem to write about anything at the moment.

My mental bandwidth for disgust has been overwhelmed.

Why?

Read this:

This story makes the smearing of Jill Carroll by certain conservative blogs particularly cruel.

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As far as I know, none of the ugly mudslinging is being done by anyone who has ever been a hostage, much less defied his or her captors’ demands and lived to tell. It’s being done by a bunch of armchair yahoos who have wet dreams about how patriotic and heroic they would be in a situation they have never risked, much less experienced. In your videogames, jerks.

Is the right-wing alone in their reprehensible behavior?

Nope…

But they are the ones in power, aren’t they, with their bud “Dubya” and his cronies, yet they still like to play the victim.

We have gone beyond disgusting.

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