Sammy Herald Pipes As Paid

Dear Dr. Bones,

¡Happy Cathedral Murder Day, Señor Doctor! Eight hundred and twenty-two years, and the button is still hot.

Speaking of which,

Bring on the noise By Boston Herald Editorial Staff Thursday, December 29, 2011 Casino gambling is perhaps the ultimate hot button issue (...) Democracy is a messy business. But messy isn’t necessarily bad. And it beats rule by the few and the loud.

So. It is Specuvestment-Trumps-Democracy time again at Louisedayhicksville.

The editorial slaves over to the The LDHV Herald can not, naturally, injure their Funders’ cause by expressin’ the basic point like that, so instead we get "bring on the noise" an’ "the vote wasn’t bindin’" an’ "rather meaningless" an’ "squeaky wheels." Allow me to praise the latter insight particularly, reflecting strictly to myself how melodious the squeakin’s of Vox Pop sound to wingnut ear when they emerges from funder-compliant wads of Tee Putty.

As for ¿What Next?, Dollerica would not be Dollerica if ‘Mister’ Kraft an’ the Freelord of Wynn just threw in their hand at once. No doubt Bigmanaged Democracy is still only gettin’ started. The _Herald_ angels reveal themselves as but "small people," I fear, when they suggest that their freelordships should just meet with those "annoyed and ... sensitive selectmen" alone. Alone in a dark alley, it sounds like.

The Sammy Scabs fresh out of J-school an’ their circumambient frathouse babes obviously don’t have much idea how the Ebenezer Scrooges of Dollerica bigmanage. But then, neither does the Chairman of the Annoyed and Sensitive, who used a MacL@@han-Tube interview to suggest, by ostentatious and preëmptive refusal, that maybe if the gamester corporations were to make him a Krafty Wynner too.

Most important of all, it looks as if journalistic Louisedayhicksville has broken with the whole Norman Rockwell picture-postcard tradition. That old-fashioned New Iceland town meeting is no longer a treasured heirloom, little Sammy Scab has unmasked it for us as "rule by the few and the loud."

Now of course there is probably something to that: I betcha Increase Mather was pretty good at shouting othervolks down when they required downshouting. Practice every neosabbath morning for fifty or sixty years must have been marvelous preparation to be not only prescriptively Good and Great but also *¡LOUD!*.

Happy days.