{"id":3915,"date":"2010-02-26T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:52:25","slug":"the-future-just-aint-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/26\/the-future-just-aint-what-it-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"the future just ain&#8217;t what it used to be&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" vspace=\"7\" height=\"336\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsontour.com\/_artist\/shane_koyczan.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Some lines deserve repeating. In the Opening Ceremony, Slam Poet <strong><font color=\"#200020\">Shane Koyczan<\/font><\/strong> was dazzling with his poem, &quot;We are More.&quot; This morning, he was on the Today Show while I was making coffee. It was a poem about what the Olympics had been, and it had this great line:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong><font color=\"#200020\">The future just ain&#8217;t what it used to be&#8230;<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup>Okay, he said <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> instead of <em>ain&#8217;t<\/em>. He can&#8217;t help it. He&#8217;s Canadian for God&#8217;s sake! They can&#8217;t get everything right. He just hasn&#8217;t heard enough country music&hellip;<br \/> <\/sup><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Somehow, my mind went quickly to Obama and the political year 2009 &#8211; which by any scoring method was one of the worst. I don&#8217;t fault the President. I don&#8217;t really even fault the Republicans. I do think that Fox News, Talk Radio, and the idiots with tea-bags [who all had their taxes cut] protesting tax-hikes have been almost too much to bear. But there is blame to be partitioned. In chronological order &#8211; Ronald Reagan, the Religious Right, Phil Gramm, Wall Street, the Big Banks, the Hedge Fund Managers, the Lobbyists, anyone in the country named Bush or Cheney, the American Enterprise Institute. But if there&#8217;s to be a symbol for the sickness of it all, I&#8217;d pick the Lawyers &#8211; David Addington, John Yoo, Robert Bork, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, and their Klan known as the Federalist Society.    <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Our future looked bright in August 2008, but living it has been a bitch. I have a feeling that things are settling down some. I hope that&#8217;s intuition instead of just a wish. &quot;<strong><font color=\"#200020\">The future just ain&#8217;t what it used to be<\/font><\/strong>&quot; can have a second meaning. Sometimes, the future is better than it used to look like it was going to be&hellip;  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lines deserve repeating. In the Opening Ceremony, Slam Poet Shane Koyczan was dazzling with his poem, &quot;We are More.&quot; This morning, he was on the Today Show while I was making coffee. It was a poem about what the Olympics had been, and it had this great line: The future just ain&#8217;t what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}