McKelway put it this way:
But what of the fear that chews at the pit of your stomach; the fear that has no rational explanation, that lasts and lingers through the decades and seems to exist within you and no one else?
It is as real in the dark of night as in the brilliant light of day. It can be painfully obvious or known only to a trusted few. It can seem totally stupid.
But it is always there. Behind the mask, under the bedsheets, in the deep of woods, when you're alone or in a crowd.
OK, it was Halloween and a slow news day.
Dr. Marcella Fierro, the state's chief medical examiner whose unshakable court testimony has sent many a murderer to the big house, still counts a childhood fear as her worst moment."I was afraid alien space invaders were going to snatch away my little sister -" she said, recalling a television movie that she watched with her 5-year-old sibling back home in Buffalo, N.Y.
"Don't ever let anyone tell you that television images don't make an impact."
I don't know Patricia.
And she didn't explain.
What does George Allen fear the most? Bloody bones that slowly ascend darkened spiral staircases? What could it be?
"As a child, he used to have a frightening dream where a condor in a lightning storm swooped down and picked him up as he fell down a groundhog hole," Allen's office reported yesterday.
California condors are nearly extinct; there are less than 100 of them. And we already know about that lightening bolt thing. Talk about facing one's fears.
What are you afraid of, Virginia? Well, the Republicans think they can scare us at Halloween with fireballs and fuzzy pictures of the devil standing behind Al Zawahiri's shoulder.
His left shoulder of course. The very reason for throwing salt over one's left shoulder is to keep the devil away.
I just don't get it. The truth stands on its own. It' doesn't need to be "enhanced" with devil pictures.
But the Republicans get hysterical when a person with a real illness goes on television. Sounds like reality is their real phobia.
Maybe George Allen had to leave CA because he was unable to overcome his condor fear.
Charlottesville has more groundhogs than any town I've ever been in. I don't think it matters, but thought I would mention it.
Because if people look at the reality, they would not vote for George Allen.
Did you know that in the recent Newsweek poll, by 51-44 people favored impeaching Bush?
They do manipulate fears and everything else. And it's time for it to stop so we can get back in the business what this country is all about.