Confession of the Professional Left

Having made a career of desertion, we are adept at wailing, failing, falling, walking it off. We juggle buckets & flamethrowers, weed-whackers & metronomes, equal to whatever sinister task. Every third Thursday we serve guilt & sour soup. Mornings leave a gritty residue in our communal sink — think of a hog wallow. If the earth were any closer, we would have to put millipedes on the payroll & rechristen all the cemeteries as recycling centers, because what you call leftovers, we call encore presentations. We believe our enemies to be human, no more evil than we, & we believe in regular upheaval. Like sands in a goddamn hourglass are the lives of our days.

(In response to the recent outburst from President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs.)

About Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
This entry was posted in Personal/Political, Riffs. Bookmark the permalink.

0 Responses to Confession of the Professional Left

  1. Jean says:

    Now I know what to call myself, a ‘leftover’ :-)

  2. bev says:

    Better watch out — you professional lefties down there might end up with Canadian health care. Apparently, them’s is almost fightin’ words these days. (-:

  3. maria says:

    Uh oh, Canadian health care … there’s a threat! :) That, or finding oneself as an early draftee in the “encore presentation.” :)

  4. :-) — for both post and comments.

  5. Robb says:

    Kia ora Dave,
    I am reminded of the Phil Ochs song, Love me I’m a Liberal.
    Cheers,
    Robb

  6. Beth says:

    Terrific, Dave, and thanks for the link to the article.

  7. Juggling buckets and flamethrowers. I usually listen to and often agree with Olbermann, Maddow, et al., but yeah.

    • Dave Bonta says:

      We both know people who fit the angry leftist stereotype, I’m sure. Then again, there’s a hell of a lot to be angry about… if only anger weren’t so harmful to the psyche.