Monday, January 10, 2005
Return of the Wide-Open Blogger!!
News of the demise of AllHopped Up was not entirely accurate. Life intervened, election cycle depression, ostrich-like evasion on the pitiful subject of Iraq (January elections. . . lookin' good!) and general malaise following the (actual, reasonably uncontested) election of TeamBush had me in a funk.
I spent the month of October trying to contact the nation's Yahoos and fencesitters in a now-obviously futile attempt to swing the election toward the least objectionable candidate. I hope I at least got a few people to explore worldviews that go further than the edge of the Super Wal-Mart parking lot, but in the end Karl that evil bastard had yet another day in the electoral sun.
TeamBush hasn't even squandered millions for the inaugural yet (most expensive in history--primarily a result of security costs, owing much to the fact that W. is the most hated president in modern history) and they are fattening up an uber-right-wing agenda to dismantle what's left of those parts of government that are neither well-armed nor serve the wealthy.
I feel like it's almost futile to go on blogging and ranting against these well-heeled privatizing freaks. But then I think of people who lost everything and everyone in an instant on an otherwise beautiful tropical day last December 26, and I realize how selfish I am to even consider using the words futility or despair or devastated.
Back to your regularly scheduled rant.
News of the demise of AllHopped Up was not entirely accurate. Life intervened, election cycle depression, ostrich-like evasion on the pitiful subject of Iraq (January elections. . . lookin' good!) and general malaise following the (actual, reasonably uncontested) election of TeamBush had me in a funk.
I spent the month of October trying to contact the nation's Yahoos and fencesitters in a now-obviously futile attempt to swing the election toward the least objectionable candidate. I hope I at least got a few people to explore worldviews that go further than the edge of the Super Wal-Mart parking lot, but in the end Karl that evil bastard had yet another day in the electoral sun.
TeamBush hasn't even squandered millions for the inaugural yet (most expensive in history--primarily a result of security costs, owing much to the fact that W. is the most hated president in modern history) and they are fattening up an uber-right-wing agenda to dismantle what's left of those parts of government that are neither well-armed nor serve the wealthy.
I feel like it's almost futile to go on blogging and ranting against these well-heeled privatizing freaks. But then I think of people who lost everything and everyone in an instant on an otherwise beautiful tropical day last December 26, and I realize how selfish I am to even consider using the words futility or despair or devastated.
Back to your regularly scheduled rant.
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