Archive for December 16th, 2004

The Tennis Game

One of the funniest things on earth is watching people watch a tennis game.

The camera observing tennis spectators shows a sea of sunglasses. All of those sunglasses move as if in a giant choreographed movement left, right, left, right. It looks truly weird, and it looks as if the whole crowd had practiced this routine for weeks.

Watching tennis is a very relaxing activity. You know exactly when the action is taking place, like a dance, left, right, left, right.

Both sides.

But if you leave the tennis court and go work and your boss finds you looking left, right, left, right, and you say you are “watching both sides,” he will probably put you in for disability.

Half of your income and all of your children’s future is in the hands of government. Half your income and all of your children’s future is determined by politics, just as much of your income as is determined by your job.

So in politics you sit there watching “both sides.” Andrew Young serves one to Rush Limbaugh, and the crowd turns right, then Limbaugh argues, and the eyes turn left.

And I am the cameraman, watching that crowd as the sunglasses turn left and the sunglasses go right, in a choreographed dance, while their world topples down around their ears.

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