The Los Angeles Times article titled In two years, a fearful turn in Obama’s speeches, ends with the following:

“As a candidate in 2008, Obama made an appealing but naive promise to bring Republicans and Democrats together in Washington and end the bitter partisan standoff,” said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies and writes about governance. “He learned that was easier said than done.

“He is now giving voice to a reality that he was hesitant to accept.”

Notice the difference between my headline and the one used by the Los Angeles Times. Like two drunks propping each other up as they walk out of the bar, maybe if you put the slant of the two different headlines next to each other, they could hold each other up.

Of course, even the fellow from the Brookings Institution could have phrased it, “President Obama gave the Republicans a chance to put aside their bitter partisanship, but they didn’t take it.” Are three drunks holding each other up better than two?

I found Thaddeus Russell: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History on the George Mason University’s History News Network web site.

If I had a category, “And Now For Something Completely Different”, I would place this item in it. In describing what got him fired, the article has the following to say:

I showed them that during the American Revolution drunkards, laggards, prostitutes, and pirates pioneered many of the freedoms and pleasures we now cherish — including non-marital sex, interracial socializing, dancing, shopping, divorce, and the weekend — and that the Founding Fathers, in the name of democracy, opposed them.