As a youngster attending the Saturday matinees, Ronnie Reagan was one of my favorite actors.

My opinion of him as an actor was not changed by his presidency.

Good actor lousy president.

Karl Rovian type politicos have been mutations in our political lives, and subject themselves to the same laws of evolution the Galapagos inspired Darwin to set down.

Fortunately we are able to stick our heads out from behind the symbols of comfort we create, including those designed to fill our political souls with a non-comittal apathy towards elements in our lives that do not serve our best interests,--to keep us, for example, from voting--, to not only select out the Rovian abberation, but to perceive the world with a strength we thought we had lost. (Thanks for that fireside chat stimulant.)

Now if Pelosi and Reid will just not piss that strength away!