Rodent Regatta

I re-read this about five times. It says what I thought it said the first time through it.

”Here’s the short form of Hutton’s book, published by Norton early in 2003 but largely drowned out by the war drums. ’What happened in the last 25 years is that America’s center of gravity-politically and culturally-has moved to the right. It’s moved the whole international common sense to the right…’”

It’s from a post at Chris Lydon’s site called As Other See Us: Will Hutton in London

It’s 4:47 a.m. and I spent about 30 seconds deciding whether or not to get mad about this or go back to bed. I’m going back to bed. Anyone who can look at the past 25 years of American history and find that we’ve moved to the right has probably missed a few episodes of Will & Grace or overlooked a sitting President who chose to thumb his nose at impeachment or…

I’m going back to sleep! I have little tolerance for drivel out of Harvard and London masquerading as deep insight.