Fred Reed takes a hiatus

[Wiregrass Willie]

Like a lot of us born in the 1940s, Fred Reed had a checkered past as far as politics go. Like most of his generation he probably swung between liberalism and conservatism to varying degrees. At present Fred seems like he is ready to swing back to the liberal side -- after having watched the Bush years totally discredit anything conservative.

http://www.fredoneverything.net/

His latest article tells us he is taking a hiatus from the internet -- after seven years -- because he seems depressed about the state of the USA. Here is a sample:

Today the United States is politically and socially constipated. Nothing moves, or at least not in a desirable direction. Crooks, frauds, revivalists, the over-empowered under-brained, believers and mouth-breathers and unabashed lunatics—all of these have so firmly gummed up the gears that improvement founders. Someone seems to have poured glue into the political kaleidoscope. Little point exists in curmudgeing at the bastards.

A few examples to make a point: The schools are terrible, we know they are terrible, we have known it for decades, and yet they only get worse. The universities are become dumbed-down propaganda chutes, and we know it, yet they only get worse. The War on Drugs is an ineffective farce continued for the benefit of drug lords, and we know it, yet we continue. The racial situation is both grim and stagnant. We have no military enemies, yet spend ever more on “defense.” None of these foolishnesses can be changed. If they could be, by now they would have been.

A train wreck once started goes to completion.

http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm

[catmandu57]

1. I must be thinking of the wrong fred reed

I thought he was long dead, the voice of fred flintstone and others.

[rurallib]

2. Alan Reed did Flintstone. Hannity modeled for the Flintstone head

[catmandu57]

3. Okay my mistake

Senior moments are coming fast these days.