The political climate in the United States continues to make me uncomfortable. I suppose that it was the number one reason for wanting to run away to Costa Rica, secondly of course followed by True Love. It is amazing to me that circumstances have come around to where they are now, although if I had had the clearer vision... of one not blinded by what she thought was the Love of a Lifetime, I could have seen it coming.
That being said, there are many things afoot in the US right now. Karl Rove's alleged involvement in the Valerie Plame scandal, the choice of a conservative for Sandra Day O'Connor's position on the Supreme Court, and not to mention the CAFTA, which much like NAFTA isn't as bad as the detractors say, but is not nearly the right direction to go. It is a bit amusing that when NAFTA was in the works, so many people freaked out about it. Now CAFTA is here, and apparently those who freaked out before are really behind this one. I'm not sure why that is, but it sure smacks of pure politik.
Anyway, I'm going to see Idlewild a few times this fall and somehow that keeps me going. It'll be a little bit of Scotland right here in Chicago and Minneapolis and until I work my way back to Edinburgh, it'll do.
