Watery Fog vs. Supreme Memory

I haven’t written anything in a long while. Perhaps I had forgotten that I had a blog. Perhaps I had forgotten where my computer was. Maybe I had forgotten how to write coherently. My memory must have been in a fog. Oh well, now I’ve remembered all three, so here goes.

Listening to the Alito confirmation hearings, memory seems to be a big issue, but not to worry, many things can be done to improve it. Mental note: fax information about memory to committee. But wait, since most of the time, I can’t even remember that there is a Congress, I might have a memory failure about the fax. Yes, memory can be fickle. Senator Kennedy in particular seems distressed about Judge Alito’s memory, even as he has trouble finding the words needed to question the man. Apparently Mr. Alito was once briefly a member of what leftists-on-the-hunt like to label an extreme right-wing group, which is to say, any group that they want to silence so that their free speech may go on unchecked, a la Fidel Castro. I, for one, cannot remember groups that I joined in college, although a disco dance group stands out--go Bee Gees! That’s probably because pairing physical action with memory helps retain the memory, as does using the hearing sense in learning situations.

This makes it all the more amazing that Senator Kennedy remembers next to nothing about a certain fateful night that occurred many years ago. Hummm, perhaps he doesn’t remember that he doesn’t remember, and thus thinks he remembers all and believes all he creates? This may be why Judge Alito fails to remember being the cult-like person with evil intentions that Kennedy conjures up for his followers of personal destruction (TV ratings will be good on this one, Ted. Why don’t you turn it into a video—The Slanderwitch Project?). The Judge remembers perfectly well that it was an unimportant group in his young life and also remembers not being anti-woman, anti-black, or anti-anything else that Kennedy alleges by association, although by doing this, Kennedy certainly remembers to appease the ravenous socialists/communists who now control the Democratic Party. Yes, Alito remembers well.

But how interesting that Senator Kennedy seems to claim a foggy or no memory at all about that watery night long ago when a beautiful young woman died, and how curious that his memory failure is supported by the collective memory failure of the media, whose job is the very essence of chronicling memories. The Senator’s memory loss seems a more grievous error of memory than whether or not someone can remember belonging to a certain collegiate group whose stance he has acknowledged was not his stance then and is not his stance now. Apparently, Kennedy’s watery fog of a memory, of which the media chooses to have no memory so that the public will have no memory (i.e., any information), is more acceptable than a clear memory and opinions freely offered on national TV before the public. To that very public, I submit, which man is more believable: a well-connected, career politician who has no memory of an evening that led to a death, or an ordinary man, thrust into the spotlight by circumstance, who remembers that a group had no consequence in his life then or now? Case closed!