Timothy Egan: Lost Town Blues
My father in law died this past August. He lived in a town that once thrived and now strives. Timothy Egan's remarks today in the NY Times reminds me.
"In that sense, the arc of this controversy is typical of how these things go: struggling towns are props, not issues.
"In that sense, the arc of this controversy is typical of how these things go: struggling towns are props, not issues.
One side rushes to drape themselves in flags, guns and the kind of Norman Rockwell hagiography that is far removed from the 2008 reality of meth labs and foreclosure frontiers. The other side says religion is for fools, and if only they had a new Starbucks in town, some of those Bible-banging gun nuts could learn to love Sundays with Norah Jones and a Scrabble game. "
We haven't even got to the convention yet and we are already majoring in minors with regard to political topics.
Read the full article here.
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/lost-town-blues/?th&emc=th
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