Force For Evil Has Departed This World

I always thought that the news of Ronald Reagan's death, when it finally came, would fill me with a joy and elation thitherto unmatched in my life.

And I'm certainly happy that such a force for evil has departed this world. But I'm not dancing around my room in the total ecstasy I expected.

My muted response baffled me until I realized it was because the conglomerate of evil we have running America and the rest of the world now is even worse. The horrors of Reagan in 1984 almost seem tame compared to Bush in 2004. Its scarey...

As a grieving planet offers up its fond tributes to The Big Gipper, three memories of Ronald Reagan immediately spring to mind (children of the 80s might as well refresh their minds..):

1) During the 1980 Republican leadership hustings, in the middle of a heated public debate between the candidates, a harrassed Reagan finally snapped: "I paid for this microphone." He started off almost as the joke candidate, as I recall. No-one really thought he'd get the nomination.

2) His infamous oops-I-didn't-know-this-mike-was-on quip: "I have passed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

3) His stunning grasp of language. "You know, in Russian, they don't even have a word for Freedom."

In short, the man was a blithering idiot. However, unlike George Dubya Bush, he was a blithering idiot with charm and charisma. And that, I am afraid, is the best that I can say about him. God sees. God Hears. He punishes. End of story.