May 3rd, 2009
 
 As a senior citizen, I have found that there are both advantages and disadvantages to membership in my age cohort.
 One of the disadvantages, of course, is that too many of my fellow gummers are racists, sexists and homophobes. But at least they — and their benighted times — are dying out.
 One of the advantages to seniorhood is that nobody’s much surprised if you shout at clouds and yell at kids to get out of your yard. At this age, you’re supposed to do that stuff. It’s a rule.
 One other advantage — or so it seems — is that people over 60 may have some kind immunity to swine flu. The story is HERE.
May 3rd, 2009
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 There are risks to President Obama in the fact that “there is so little opposition, in the political arena or most anyplace else, to challenge his high-flying course.”
 That’s the gist of Frank Rich’s COLUMN this morning, wherein he laments the Republican Party’s “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”
 ”Obama needs a serious counterweight in the political arena,” argues Rich. “But the former party of Lincoln and liberty has now melted down to a fundamentalist core of aging, rural Dixiecrats and intrusive scolds… Its position on the American spectrum of ideas is somewhere between a doomsday cult and Scientology.”
UPDATE: This guy says the GOP can’t become a serious counterweight to Obama if it preoccupies itself with banishing RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).
