So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

PRESIDENT SHEPHERD The environment got screwed. Nothing happened to you today, Sydney. Governing is choosing. Governing is prioritizing. I've made no secret of the fact that the crime bill was my top priority. SYDNEY Well then, congratulations. It's only taken you three years to put together crime prevention legislation that has no hope of preventing crime. I haven't watched it in years, but The American President is my favorite film of all time.  That last line, the best in a movie full of them, eviscerates the president's justification for a political deal that handed him nothing of substance.  Just a Sunday show victory and a campaign talking point. Life is a series of compromises.  As you get older, you make more of them. There comes a point, though, when you can compromise so much that it's hard to say if there's any real connection between intent and reality. To put it another way, in IgglesBlog-appropriate chart form: I will miss the charts. A...