I can only guess that by seeing the banner you did that you stay current in the affairs of politics. I assume you don't know what your talking about when you use the phrase Zombie Reagan. I'm sure you were in your teens or younger when he was president. I wonder what motivates you to think that about someone, I'm sure you haven't a clue the history of him except what your told and not what you've read. I assume your an avid reader of the paper, liberal networks and the like, your an artist with passion and not a clue what security stands for. your safe with your blog. I assume you create art because your an artist and freedom of speech is important to you. Freedom, hmm a good words for those that have come before you and given there lives for you to write your crap blog.

Well now, Casey, welcome to the discussion! In case you were unsure, the Zombie Reagan banner was a joke. If you had clicked on it, I'm sure someone of your many years of wisdom would have realized that. I'm glad to see that you already know how to throw around accusations; I could say that it shows you have been well-schooled in conservative rhetoric, but you'd just throw my liberal bias back at me. That won't accomplish anything, will it?

Surprisingly, I do read. And no, I don't only digest the crumbs left by the "liberal media." I got a big, bad degree in English Literature, which means I was trained to read critically; to weigh options and make judgements based on the facts available, not conjectures or hypotheses—you know, like the hypothetical conclusion you came to about me.

To clear things up for you, I was born the same year Reagan was elected. Before you throw my age in my face again, though, I'd like to ask you if you think you are unqualified to have an opinion about Theodore Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln simply because you were not alive during their presidencies. Facts are the stuff of history, and history is everything past. Both my childhood and Reagan's Presidency are long past us, but that does not mean that I am any less able to form well-reasoned, coherent opinions about them both.

Your assumptions are poorly constructed and, more to the point, wrong. I am not an artist, nor to I aspire to be one. I am a wage slave like most of the people I know, suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune because ol' Ronnie decided that "trickle down" economics were going to save the middle class, despite evidence to the contrary. I've watched my family bleed their lives out to that tune, and all it ever got them was a bigger TV. I'm watching the results of Reagan's policies kill people and places I love.

I may not have been alive to see him elected, but I am around to see the aftermath. And it still doesn't mean I have to like it.

casey--

i can only guess by reading your post that you haven't heard of contractions, or taken so much as a junior college course in english. you write like a three-fingered fifth grader. so much for the public school system.

and where was the "liberal media" during the non-stop, exhaustive funeral coverage that we have had to endure the past week? they were busy canonizing a man who nearly destroyed the american middle-class during his eight year presidency. you remember the middle-class, i'm sure. hell, you probably still think you're a member.

i will be 27 years old in august, meaning i was 3 when reagan took office. i wasn't old enough to vote for him, obviously, but i got the unique pleasure of watching the people of my town embrace him w/ a zeal usually reserved for televangelists, while his 4 trillion dollar defense budget brought defense factories and many jobs to a place that was formally agrarian. and then eight years later, when the soviets' economy imploded, so did the economy of my hometown. and the same people that once deified him stood in unemployment lines trading factory stories and wondering when things were going to turn around. we all got to drive by the empty buildings and haunted housing developments that his decade of prosperity brought w/ it. we got to endure a 25% unemployment rate; we led the state in teen pregnancy, methamphetamine abuse, and child abuse. people who used to make their living baleing alfafa traded it in to make 11 dollars an hour bucking rivets on bombers this country never needed. it would be naive to blame all of that on one man, and i don't; however, the fact remains that his administration helped to destroy the lives of average, hard-working americans through irresponsible and jingoistic economic policies.

before you go waving your car flag and tossing nebuluous words like "freedom" out the window like empty beer cans, maybe you should exercise some freedom of the intellectual sort and read a book. i recommend the dictionary--long and ponderous, but at least it's not art, right?

born down in a dead man's town,
dan

i meant "nebulous"--my apologies. i'm only glad i caught that typo before you put the dictionary down.

i am a lighthouse,
dan