Paradigms shift as graveyards fill and headstones become bookends

Bill Buckley has died, RIP. Ironical to the end, he shuffles off this mortal coil as his legacy of revived or "modern" conservatism consumes itself whole--and wholly unsatisfying as the rice cake it became in its full, Gingrich-Bush-Cheney-Limbaugh-Delay-Abramoff-Foley-based application.

It seems we really do need full-blown actual tsunamis to remind us how unsustainable and short-sighted is the crutch of Everyday's-a-Tsunami! management style. Being on alert, suspicious, brittle--angry or fearful--will wear out a soldier, citizen, party, movement or country in very short order. Hope prevails, because its opposite really is soulless.