CALL IT OUR PLAME PERIOD

All great talents and outstanding minds go through development phases we call periods. Picasso had his Blue Period and his Rose period. I had my Thorazine period, a time when I was so enraged I wanted to kill God, but I never could find the son of a bitch. Right now I’m in what people might call my chemical enhancement period, a time when I feel I want to contemplate things. Things like when did time actually begin? Is there really endless great pussy after death in battle like the Muslims say? And Valerie Plame.

Deep stuff like that always occupies my idle hours. Right now I’m stuck on the time thing. Time began when? Did it have to begin? Couldn’t it have always been there? People say that time began when the Big Bang happened but that's stupid. There is a "before" the Big Bang. So time began before, prior to, and like that. So time has always been there. Like Valerie Plame has always been there. Well, not her exactly but the forces she represents. I think she is an incarnation of something that has always been here and will always be here even after everything else is gone. Sort of like the Pythagorean Theorem which is so cool it could be God. Since before there was anything and after there is nothing the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle will equal the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Forever. And before.

Valerie Plame is the current representation of something like that. The force that has always been here and will always be here. A force that seeks to change things in ways that are outside the box; things like election results. Are Valerie Plame and her pathetic life partner Joe just petty little Washington bureaucrats destined to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair and then disappear forever? Or are they both parts of some rogue element within the CIA and our government bureaucracy who are trying to destabilize a freely elected government? Is she a MoveOndotOrg operative so filled with hate for Republicans in general and George W. Bush in particular that she felt she needed to do her part in destroying them? I lean toward the last one.

She had to have had a reason to agitate within the CIA to get her unemployed husband to Niger for the specific purpose of finding that there was no attempt by Iraq to buy yellowcake there. Even if there was an attempt. Or did she act without reason because she was bored? A Desperate Spywife perhaps, needing a thrill outside of her sexless marriage? Did she just need a little thrill like getting rid of a president she hates?

That force, the Valerie Force; call it envy; the sureness that she is smarter than everyone else especially elected leaders; the knowledge that she is placed on this earth to do whatever she thinks is appropriate to destabilize an elected government whenever she feels it necessary; that force, the force of self righteousness, has been with us since before Pythagoras and will be with us long after everything else is gone.

She is forever and governments will always quake when she decides to act. We can only hope that other forces will prevail and send her under the rocks of time until next time. And for her there will always be a next time.

And for us too if we fight hard enough this time.

That's what winning looks like when we fight the Plame effect.