Netzingers -- Explicit coquina que est optima medicina.

The New Jerk dictionary defines antidisintermeditationism (adverb) as taking a stand against removing the middleman and brokers who add value and expertise to the supply chain.  While fdirect service delivery is often noted for being cheaper and more "efficient" by supply-side fops,  disintermediation is most often a cover for hiding producer weakness and allowing the shifting of sub-standard goods.

How to Survive Popular Wisdom

If it is a "Movement," then it is probably wrong.  Movements should be limited to plate tectonics and bowels.

If it is something that most people view as crazy and impractical, then it is probably right.  Most folks see the right thing as unpleasant and tiresome.

If it is something  radically new and different, then it is probably not a good idea.  Finding the value of new ideas takes time, and like asbestos and bloodletting, may take longer than you have to discover the drawbacks.

It is always easier to make better the good than remedy the evil.  Let natural selection be your judge.

Dear Secretary Vilsak:

As a member of a rural farm community, please support the small farmers.  We need more fresh fruits and vegetables, not more cattle ranches. Please push for parity for the fresh market with animal agriculture.

Respectfully,

Jim Wiegand

"The sound body is the product of a sound mind."

-- George Bernard Shaw

High school students in Arkansas eat fewer fewer fruits and vegetables than students in any other state.  This is not surprising in a state where a vegetable is something cooked in the bottom of a roasting pan and left on the plate after the meal is over, and a fruit is something used to decorate the far end of a dessert buffet. 

It makes me shudder to think of where half these kids will end up in thirty or thirty-five years.  Already I am seeing the middle-age gap, where on one side you have folks dying in their forties and fifties, and on the other side you have old folks in their late seventies and eighties who had no choice but to eat their vegetables growing up.

Soon, a decent lifespan will  come to mean making it past 50.  Again.

Dear Senator Lincoln,

I am writing today to express my disappointment with your vote today on the public options to health care reform.  This does not reflect well on America, that we can spend more per capita on direct public care and care for public sector employees than Canada and still not get medical care right.

It is even more discouraging to consider that health care is getting worse for us. This year we rank 37th among nations, down from 32nd. We are clearly in a bad place and are still heading in the _wrong_ direction.

It does not appear that your position is representative of the popular will or the common need.  I would encourage you to make some creative contribution to a solution, rather than appear as a roadblock.

This vote is certainly a disappointment, and one that I will remember every time I write out a check for my health care.  I work for a company too small for group coverage, and so end up paying directly for public coverage, without the benefits which you enjoy as a member of the most senior legislature in the land.

Sincerely,

Jim Wiegand

The New Jerk Dictionary defines "politics" as what politicians used to do before they became industry spokespeople.  Also commonly used as a slur against people who think too much and are bad for business.  The old meaning referring to partisan discourse to reach a common compromise has been abandoned since the 1980's (U.S.; other countries vary).