Furious Indifference.

Sarah Palin is being panned for not knowing the member countries of NAFTA by the snide "gotcha" assholes in the media. The thing is, Canada, the US, and Mexico aren't the only signatories. And I'll bet my life's savings that, unaided (of course, no Googling!) none of you reading this could, actually, name all of the countries in "North America." I'm not defending Sarah Palin , the Moose-Murdering, religious- nutbag , and God knows what else crazy woman who'll be with us for some time to come... I am just pointing out, as many progressives and conservatives alike often do, laziness in the media, and the accompanying snarky condescension that turn most people who would otherwise perhaps choose public service to think twice about running for office. But honestly, if you do want to be a public servant, you should be warned that an education and intellect along with civic knowledge is pretty much a basic requirement. But, with an electorate like ...

I Need to blog again... I need to vent, need to express, need a place to ejaculate my pent up thoughts, need to talk, need to feel again. I have a second job until November 4th. I've been canvassing neighborhoods, phone-banking, and hosting meetings and debate-watching parties in support of the Obama-Biden campaign. To be perfectly honest, I'm not that ideologically aligned with the Senator from Illinois, but GOD DAMMIT, WTF is wrong with you people? Can you not see through the ridiculously disingenuous and patently immature campaign of John McCain? Hell, I respected the man as a fellow veteran when he took on Bush in 2000, and was outraged how he was treated. Inexplicably, he has hired, and apparently subsumed himself to the very people that defeated him then with the slimiest and most racist primary battle in modern history, to now run his campaign (schmitt, rove, davis, ghost of atwater, et al). He has sold his soul for power so much like the character Golom in the Lord of ...