Isn't it Ironic?

There's a website I like to visit from time to time called forgottendetroit.com . It's published by a college kid who is really into the great architecture that sits rotting in Detroit. For the most part, I really enjoy the pictures he has taken but one of them really annoys me. You can see it here.

The "Greatest President" he's referring to is, of course, Ronald Reagan - a guy to whom Detroit can rightfully lay a good chunk of the blame for its current state. Why anyone would think Reagan was anything but the second worse president is beyond me (the first worst is W, of course - and just for the Record, Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest, followed by Lincoln)

It's like a certain segment of the population at Today's World Magazine. Truly nice guys, brilliant at what they do, but naive as hell about the world around them (if you haven't guessed already, they're computer programmers.) They vote Republican because they think they are "rich" and because they think they are "rational". Ignore the fact that every company they've ever worked for since college - including Today's World - has either gone under or almost went under (although, I hasten to say, Today's World is now doing quite well - in large part because it's run by liberal Democrats, who have no illusions about what great businessmen the GOP supposedly are)

If we could only get more people to look beyond the colorful flags and shiny objects and see what these crooks are really about, we'd be a much healthier nation. But we've always been big on self-deception in this country, and history shows it usually takes something very unpleasant to wake us up.

But, in the meantime, it's worth wasting a few hours of work to visit forgottendetroit.com .