Furious Indifference.

I really didn't know what to do with all of the Obama campaign stickers I have been given during all of the debate party's and phone-banking meetings at my house in the last few months... So, I decided to cover my cheap 4" reflector telescope with them... it kinda looks cool in my opinion. Even though it is not exactly a precise, expensive scientific/optical instrument, it has done a relatively good job of showing several of Jupiter's moons (and the "Great Red Spot"), the mountains and craters of our moon, and the reddish orb of our occasionally close neighbor Mars in exquisite detail. It has provided many evenings of awe for my son and I and friends, marveling at the clockwork of our solar system, and the beauty beyond our world.

So I get this Spam in my inbox from a mailing list I am on. It goes on page after page quoting Bible verse (both old/new testaments ) "proving" that McCain (don't forget Cain slew Abel, don't ya know) and Sarah Palin are of SATAN!!! OMG !! Run for the hills. It's annoying when I get crap like that about Obama being the anti-Christ and whatnot, but it's somehow disconcerting to see such a shallow, and frankly absurd tactic used in support of him. And no, I'm not saying all McCain's supporters are rabid Bible-thumping idiots (there are a bunch of course), nor am I saying all of Obama's supporters are all highly intelligent, well-educated, sober-minded rationalists either. Hardly, I've met my share of Obama Kool -Aid drinkers, and they are just as off-putting, weird, and frankly scary as any Right Wing Nut too. The e-mailer titled her e-mail " FW : WE LOVE OBAMA.....MCCAIN/PALIN ARE SENT BY SATAN....QUOTES FROM THE BIBLE!!!" So, that

Green Day was a few years early... because we are now certainly in the "Year of the Idiot." No, I'm not calling McCain and idiot you silly, I'm calling you one if you vote for this guy... a smidgen of a difference don't you know. If you tell me you are voting 'against' Obama, and not for McCain, well then vote for Ralph Fucking Nader! Hell, he winks involuntarily all of the time and is a complete narcissist asshole -- he's McCain and Palin in one tidy package. PS Oh, and thanks again for running in 2000 Ralph. You said that Americans need to see how bad it could get under continued corporate rule... well, you got your wish you asshole. I'm so sure we'd be exactly where we are today if we'd had elected a nerdy, and oh my, and overly-earnest technocrat as president instead of the worst president ever... Thanks again. Putz.

Apparently the McFear and Failin campaign has big news to tell us in the AM! OMG ! The Politco , a website that pretends to be bi-partisan, as long as you believe the middle of the political spectrum is to the right of say, Newt Gingrich... okay, I kid, they are better than perhaps the Drudge Report or Newsmax , but not that much better. I guess it would be fair to say they are "right leaning..." and that would be if only you were hanging on to the railing of the ship of state on the port side to begin with... such is the uneven playing field as it were. Really, if it was something "earth-shattering," or even mildly surprising, good but less than an "October Surprise," do you think it would be telegraphed like this on a Wednesday night? When who the (redacted) knows what the news cycle will be tomorrow?? Given that the "markets," are behaving like unbalanced flakes with "The End is Near" signs around their unwashed necks, screaming a

Hey, it's just the future of mankind or whatever... and it's at least safe to say he's locked up the bigot-vote with his dog-whistle comments and openly disdainful body language towards him, not to mention, the "who is Obama really " Willy Horten- ish ads run by the ghosts of Lee Atwater that obviously call the shots for McCain campaign. And the next debate is on domestic policy? Surely that's McCain's strong suit right? Oh my, I almost, almost feel sorry for McCain. To be perfectly honest, I kind of liked the old codger, especially when he went up against Shrub in 2000 and called Falwell and Robertson and Dobson for what they are, "agent's of intolerance." But, I guess he'd fooled me, because he said that, and complained about negative campaigning out of expediency and not conviction way back then before 9/11, Gulf War II, torture, and now the collapse of the world economy, etc. I've seen less awkward divorce proceedings.... Sure

Oh, I forgot to include the first e-mail I sent to my Republican friend from Michigan after he sent me the Sean Hannity version of recent history youtube video; this'll give it more context, I think. ------------------ I can just picture the evil little smirk as you hit send... hell, I know what that's like! :-P Okay, "let loose the dogs of war!" in other words, LOL! Now , I know that you are much too smart to believe such selectively edited highly misleading propaganda hook, line and sinker of course... and all of the "facts" are true... such is the beauty of Propaganda. But I have to ask you, which party has always been about deregulating the banking industry? Hmm? Which party, under the pen of Phil Gramm effectively repealed the Glass-Steagall Act (look it up)? Yes, I know "Klintoon" signed it into law. He was kinda busy being impeached by your buddies to even consider vetoing it (if he were inclined to, which he probably wasn't anyway, but

Like clockwork, and old friend of mine, an unapologetic Republican/Authoritarian-lover sends me a video blaming the current economic crises soley on Democrats just to simply piss me off. Well, I vented a wee bit. Hope he doesn't come to hate me now. Here it is, including the relevent picture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Y ou know , this could be an endless game, but I'm going to vote for Obama because I like the idea of rednecks having aneurysms over the idea of an intelligent and articulate black man in the White House, and you're going to vote for McCain for whatever reasons you think you have. That's fine and yeah for democracy. Of course, that isn't really why I'm going to vote for Obama, but it's a nice side benefit. Pissing off asshole bigots and rubbing their underserved superiority complexes in their face will be fun, but alas, isn't going to help of course, but it will be a nice dessert to

Asian stocks tumble as crisis intensifies So it begins... despite the historic, mind blowingly large, never before seen, or even dreamt of dumping of cash on a problem, that is simply the largest bailout in the history of mankind (or, the biggest heist in human history, depending on your position). Stocks around the world (your grandma's savings for example) are still tanking? This, despite the injection of 800 billion dollars or whatever into the global credit markets (soon to be into the trillions for sure). The great big shitpile ™ continues to sweep across the global real estate landscape. And of course, nobody could have predicted this catastrophe... oh yeah, that's kind of bullshit ain't it? Sleep tight my angels. PS It helps to read this blog entry out loud in a sarcastic British accent to lessen the blow of the real truth of this possibly slow-motion-long-term horror of a financial global train wreck that possibly is yet to come. Doomed to repeat, history is --

Dating 101 according to Cosmopolitan -- giving advice to women about why men sometimes dump them for seemingly shallow and selfish reasons. Sounds like this article is trying to lay the groundwork for a movie based on the thin and mean-spirited best-selling book, "He's Just Not That In To You." (ed. You think? Nah!) A dmittedly, I read the book. I had a twenty-something female roommate (post-divorce). And I was preparing for a long day of flying to the east coast and the book she'd finished and left on the coffee table caught my eye. Pink and bright with that oh so apropos title to this Cosmo story, I couldn't avoid it. Yes, I felt a wee bit gay reading it on the plane, but at that time in my life, going through my divorce, my libido coming back to life, I wanted to read the enemy's code book as it were. Wow, was it eye-opening, and not for the reasons you'd think. I realized, damn, guys are assholes, we really are. I'm really sorry ladies and tho

In about 30 minutes, I'm going to plop my butt down in a soda-stained (and, pardon the snark, God-knows what else) movie theater seat to watch Religulous , Bill Maher's lampooning documentary of our silly world's major religions. I'm especially looking forward to anything to do with Scientology of course, because that religion is HI-Larry-US!! Thetens begone! (sorry Tom Cruise!) LOL! I'm just hoping some Bible-thumper from Focus on the Family (affectionately known as Poke-Us-In-The-Fanny among irreligious friends here in the Mecca of Christian Fundamentalism, Colorado Springs) is there to tell me I'm going to "H" "E" double hockey-sticks (Hi Sarah!) for contributing to this atheist/comedian/Jew's bank account! Of course if the Fundie is a hot young thing, I might decide to make it my mission to deprogram her instead of seeing Bill's movie. But hey, since I've already bought the ticket, I'm sure Bill being his sexist self woul

Do you remember Elizabeth Dole? Well, I do. Republican Senator from North Carolina Elizabeth Dole who carpet-bagged all the way from Kansas (yes, I know she was born in NC) where she left old Bob to lust after Britney and pet his dog. Ewwww . Anyhoo , Liddy , as her friends, and terrified local and national media suck ups like to call her, is in electoral trouble, seems she's losing to this upstart, whippersnapper, wise-cracking* Democrat, Kay Hagan that has the nerve, (the nerve!) to point out how lousy of a Senator she has been. The reason I have such a special love for Bob Dole's wife is quite simply her daft decision to push, as the then Secretary of Transportation under Saint Ronald, the raising of the legal drinking age from a semi-morally-consistent age of 18 to 21, oh, and of course fighting off all efforts to mandate increased gas mileage, airbags, and whatnot. And the fact that I was ever so close to that beautiful young age of 18 trips around the sun thanks to my mo