A Comment About

Getting Conservatism Back on Track

January 29, 2009 - 12:00 am - by Stephen Green
Carl Gordon
2009-01-29 16:52:05

The answer may be to mainline Imitrex straight into my skull. Through the twists and turns, I’ll come out doing the back stroke down the great, green, greasy Limpopo River. I’ll come ashore looking good, in a cleaned pressed Brooks Bros. suit with a florid handkerchief absently poked in the breast pocket (Chest pocket if you’re Catholic). I’ll look to my neighbor for confirmation and they’ll nod. And perhaps you’ll nod too while keeping a safe distance. And we’ll all smile in unison as the mating dance of the Sand Hill crane will be preformed with exacting precision and quite a bit of sexual innuendo, if you know what I mean ( the chances of that are extremely unlikely). Well, anyway, then everything will make sense. Especially if I give the powers that be a well-oiled and bemused grin. Their arms will wave and their gums will flap nonsensically as if they were tied by strings being pulled by an unseen puppet master somewhere in the sky, far, far away. But I will not be afraid of their mad capped gesticulations and giggling genuflections, for I am the anointed one, or maybe just annoying one. The one which has been anointing hiz-self’ all afternoon with the bubbly carbonated incantations of the Mead of the Druids. Some call it Brewsky, some calls it Suds, I may even call for the Bud. But I will not be afraid. Just have to deal with a little matter of phonophobia and photophobia. Infrequent were confusion, depression, difficulty concentrating, disturbance of smell, dysarthria, euphoria, facial pain, heat sensitivity, incoordination, lacrimation, monoplegia, sleep disturbance, shivering, syncope, and tremor, aggressiveness, apathy, bradylogia, cluster headache, convulsions, decreased appetite, drug abuse, dystonic reaction, facial paralysis, hallucinations, hunger, hyperesthesia, hysteria, increased alertness, memory disturbance, neuralgia, paralysis, personality change, phobia, radiculopathy, rigidity, suicide, twitching, agitation, anxiety, depressive disorders, detachment, motor dysfunction, neurotic disorders, psychomotor disorders, taste disturbances, bed wetting, and raised intracranial pressure