Furious Indifference.

H/T to my friend Jamie, of whom I only learned of late, is a wee bit sensitive about the outward appearance of his fellow citizens, regardless of the content of their character. Enjoy this satire, because it is certainly on the mark for some... I wish them well finding another cause if they need one. I can still find plenty to rail against all day long just off of the top of my head. Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are The election is over, whatever is it that I am going to bitch about on my blog? Let's see, I could easily reach the character limit of my blogger posting I'm sure just talking about the stupid War on Drugs/Terror/Social Problem/Disease, etc. So, I picked this election and it's racial overtones as my subject du jour for the last couple of months, and I get non-stop snarky bullshit for it. So be it. Yes, I don't have a life, quite right. Pointless working to get a progressive, intelligent and articulate man elected ...

For the last couple of weeks I've had a bit of a running conversation via e-mail with an old Air Force buddy about racism, especially concerning politics, and the Obama presidential campaign specifically. It has been exasperating to an extent because I allow him to get my goat, which puts me on the defensive, and that isn't, to say the least, the strategy that leads to positive persuasion. I'll be honest, I enjoy debate, but I'm lousy at persuasive argument. I make a lousy sales person because I often forget the dictum, " always be closing ," and meander around the showroom of ideas picking up shiny things and get momentarily and thus, fatally distracted. Just because I enjoy something doesn't translate automatically into being very good at something, if it did, I'd be a great golfer and a world renowned movie critic. Enjoying the passion of defending a set of beliefs based on evidence and reason, doesn't mean you will become particularly good at i...

I'm waiting for someone to explain to me how Powell - a former National Security Advisor to Reagan, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of State, a literal defender of America, is picking a man who would make America less safe. - J. Hill - Cali Before I ruminate endlessly about the evils of racism which are legion, I'd like to talk about it on a more personal level due to some particularly fruitless debates with a friend (not all his fault, I admit to a some serious and exasperated intolerance). I just want to point out something I've come to see via some evolving thoughts I've been contemplating while canvassing and phone-banking for Senator Obama and fielding my friends' complaints that I'm being too sensitive and a hypocrite (e.g. reverse racist). Of course Barack Hussein Obama isn't purely "African American," no more than Colin Powell (who is actually of Caribbean descent). There is no such thing as "purely" anything when it come...