Wanderings

Well, Iowa is history, and we're on to New Hampshire. And then to South Carolina. And then Super Tuesday (when Tennessee votes). We keep talking about how we're going to vote. And so far, we're sure of only two things - we're going to vote in the Democratic primary, and we're going to vote by secret ballot.

Today, John said he was torn between voting his head and voting his heart. I'm tending to lean toward the the old medical saying "First do no harm". I do hope and believe that the Democrats will win the White House in November, but I do want the new president to be the best we can get.

So we're paying more and more attention. Bill Moyers and his guests talked about the primaries last week and this week. They talked a bunch about the media influence on the message. The sound bites, the spin, the distortions, the repetition. Last week (we just watched the program yesterday), Moyers repeated a portion of an interview with Bishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu made a comment relating to the situation during apartheid, but it is just as true today as it was then:

"Language does not describe reality; language creates reality." Sounds like what's going on now - say something often enough and loud enough and it becomes the "truth".

Guess that's enough wandering for one night.

Today's photo is a government building - the Vienna City Hall.