- A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
- Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast; -from Casey at the Bat, by Ernest Thayer
- The hope that springs eternal. I saw a headline this afternoon that said “25 Arrested at Koch Brothers’ Strategic Retreat” or something like that and I thought, “Thank goodness, they’ve finally started going after the crooks,” and I had visions of a series of prosecutions rolling through the back streets of American conservatism, here a little fish convicted of fraud or bribery, there a slightly bigger fish convicted of election tampering, moving up to state senators, governors, senators and eventually an
I'm not sure what it is, either. I googled images for "Hope Springs Eternal" and this was the number 1 hit
ex-president on charges of abusing the constitution, crimes against humanity and being an all around shithead.
- So, I clicked through to the article and saw that 25 protesters were arrested for being too close to the Koch mansion. Of course. Silly me.
- This time it wasn’t even a misleading headline, I just expected, for no good reason, that the world had suddenly come to its senses.
- Quite often it is a misleading headline, though. I should know by now that when the Huffington Post says “Palin Makes Surprising Statement,” that the statement won’t be surprising at all, when they say “Democrats Pounce,” they’ve got quotes from a couple of Democrats saying “we’re looking into this”, when they say, “Hollywood Star in Shocking Scandal” the star is not really that big a star (or their name would have been in the headline) and the scandal is that they got caught doing drugs or having sex with somebody inappropriate. Big deal. Isn’t that what we’d all be doing if we were Hollywood stars?
- I know they are only trying to make me click on the story and see that page, for which they have sold advertising, but I click through every time, hoping to be shocked, surprised or, at the very least, amused. The hope that springs eternal. Or, as another famous figure from the 19th century said “there’s a sucker born every minute.”
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