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| Thursday, January 20, 2005 05:26 AM |
| Angry |
 by Fëanor |
I was getting angrier and angrier reading through the paper this morning. First, I see the article about Rice getting Senate approval for her new post on a 16-2 vote. Multiple Democrats on the panel, including Joseph Biden "said they were reluctantly voting to elevate Rice to the top diplomatic job." What?! What does that mean? How can you disagree with her and think she's probably not telling the whole truth, and then vote for her anyway, "reluctantly"? Maybe Kerry and Boxer's votes against Rice were just gestures, but they were meaningful gestures, in my opinion. At least they had the guts to stand up and firmly say, "No." This is what the Democrats need to start doing. Say, "Hell no." Get some f*ing backbones grafted into your f*ing skeletons. Stand up and say proudly that you're liberals and that you support liberal causes. Say what we should all know by now--say that Bush and Rice and the entire administration lied to pull us into war; that they continue to lie; that they continue to destroy the economy and education; that they continue to make us hated and despised in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of our own citizens; that they continue to take away our civil liberties; that they continue to erode the wall between church and state; that they continue to make the world a more dangerous place; that they continue to send our soldiers to death for a lie and a hopeless cause. Say that they are making us embarassed to be Americans, because they are. Say something, for God's sake. Say no.
And then I read the story about the Louisiana Supreme Court "unanimously" reinstating an anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution, the same one that was "overwhelmingly approved" by voters in September. "Unanimously"! "Overwhelmingly"! How can so many people be so stupid? And then there's the story about the 7,000 champagne glasses etched with a 22-carat-gold seal that were ordered for Bush's inauguration (much fewer than the 60,000 they had in 2001), across the page from the story about the series of car bombs that went off across Baghdad yesterday, killing 26 people. On the same page as the glasses article is an article about Bush feeling the "weight of history," and reflecting on American history and his legacy. This is next to the article about the Supreme Court refusing to bar the saying of a prayer at Bush's inauguration.
I read an article about some recent polls (there's a better and more detailed analysis of them on Salon). In one poll, 60% of respondents were optimistic about Bush's next term, despite the fact that they generally disagree with his policies and expect he will make things worse. Um, do these people know what "optimistic" means?? Are they aware that they voted the guy they have no confidence in back into office recently?
Then I go to check my e-mail on Comcast.net and see Bush's ugly, grinning face on the home page, next to some story about how he wants liberty and unity in his next term. I gave the finger to my computer monitor. Unity with you, you colossal prick? I don't think so.
So basically, my opinion of humanity--particularly politicians, and particularly George Bush and the pansy Democrats who won't stand up to him and his administration--is extremely low right now.
I did see one thing in the paper that I enjoyed--a much shorter version of this story, about a mysterious man who visits Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore every January 19th (Poe's birthday) and places three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac by the tombstone. I'd never heard of this before, but apparently somebody's been coming to do it every year for 56 years. As the article says, it's surmised that the man who originated the tradition died some years ago, but passed the torch on to his sons. Anyway, I think it's a lovely tradition, and I salute them.
As for most of the rest of humanity, I give you a different salute--the same salute I gave my computer monitor earlier today--the good old one-fingered salute. You suck. |
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