Every time we seem to make any progress as a species, we tend to immediately slump back from the effort, exhausted. Then, we invent something to take care of the new problem we've created from our initial efforts, and go on with our lives -- satisfied with a job well done.
In other places and times, this might have been called playing to a draw, but in our country, it's usually called Progress.
One of the most hair-raising and intriguing dances is life itself, of course -- although global climate change, religious conflicts and wars of all kinds are spine-chilling, too. Those dances are all still in continuous motion, as is the case with the most intricate, hypnotic motions.
Here are some steps I've fallen over lately, ( just call me Dances with Gooney Birds ), and which have yielded curious results on examination:
For example, who would have ever thought it possible that this sentence was true: White Castle restaurants, Blue Bell ice cream, Dixie cups, rooms at the Marriott, and Angel Soft bath tissue are bad for America?
And that's not all: Waffle House, Gold's Gym, Brawny paper towels, and catching some flicks at Regal Cinemas aren't much good for the country, either.
The cause? They all feed right-wingnut attack ads.