Reading: The New Yorker
Music: Lou Reed
TV/Movie: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Link o' the Day: TNY:TTOTT: Unsocial Security by Hendrick Hertzberg

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WARNING: RANT MODE ON
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We’ve had a couple of very cold days lately, more snow than usual, ice, and frogs falling out of the sky. (One of these claims is false.)

I blame George Bush II. If Kerry had been elected, all would be well. It would be a paradise with shirt-sleeve weather every day and free popsicles for the asking on every street corner.

But no. Certain elements within the country had to go and vote not only against their best interests, but those of the country and the world, so now we’re saddled with the gibbering idiot and his cabal for another four years.

But I’m not bitter. I’m just disappointed.

Part of what disappoints me is the lack of luster in two of the planned protests I’ve heard about for the upcoming inauguration day. One is “Turn Your Back On Bush” in which a number of well-meaning folk head down to Washington DC to attend inauguration events, and at a pre-arranged signal, they turn there back on His Idiocy.

Pretty impressive, eh? No. It’s an empty, childish little gesture.

As childish as reducing yourself to namecalling, John?

Hush, you. I’m ranting here.

touchy, touchy, touchy

Anyway, the other is the “Not One Damn Dime” movement which asks us not to spend a single dime on anything on January 20th. No gas. No food. No gum. No hookers or guns. This will send a message that there is a vast number of us who disapprove and we’re shouting with our hands clenched firmly in our pockets.

A little more impressive than the other plan, but impractical. I’d end up just buying tomorrow’s supplies today. I need to spend money on the bus to get to work. Sure, that aside I could probably manage it. Pain in the ass, it is, but I could do it. Okay, I won’t buy any consumer goods beyond my lunch.

Happy?

Ecstatic

Quiet, you.

So that’s the best we could come up with. No wonder we barely lost.

As for the dribbling platitudes of this being a time to come together, to heal the gap, and all that. Bullshit. This is a time, more than any other time, where we need to keep a watchful eye on the Error in Chief and make sure he doesn’t fark this country up any more than he has.

Social security is one battlefront. The current New Yorker has a very interesting piece in the Talk of the Town section regarding the hoohaw over Social Security and why Georgie Porgie’s pals are trying to play us for suckers once again while their boss is busy trying to color within the lines. In fact, it’s today’s link. Visit TNY:TTOTT: Unsocial Security by Hendrick Hertzberg

Enjoy!

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