Something Serious Needs to Be Said

Last night was Ben-Jammin's birthday party, and we got crazy, as usual. Lotsa beer and BBQ and then Jameson's and tequila and lords knows what else. Some mushrooms very early in the morning - someone had a bag and I thought it was pot and I was getting it for some girl but it was mushrooms. I ate a few. I'm still a little wobbly and unsteady - we were up 'til around 8am and at 10:30 Ben decided he wanted to do Gospel Brunch at the Cowgirl, Bloody Marys and brunch. Christ. I begged off and he went with Fate and Jill.

Last night I got into a screaming match with a friend about the Karl Rove-Valerie Plame thing. I can't believe that more people don't find this whole situation completely appalling - but my friend said something to the effect of, "I didn't see you get this upset when Clinton got a blowjob from Monica Lewinsky." I hardly see how these things are even remotely related - a man gets a blowjob from an intern, another outs an undercover CIA agent who obstensibly works for HIM, thereby compromising national security and someone's life in order to "punish" her husband Joseph Wilson for speaking out against the war.

The thing that disturbed me the most was that the speaker was gay - if he can't see how oppression & intimidation is no longer hidden and subtle, then who can? This is what frightens me the most about America today - of course our leaders are assholes - but when the great bulk of the populace pretends it isn't even happening, that's what really frightens me. They'll come next for you, cocksucker - don't you even think they won't -

But like a good liberal, I'm supposed to be tolerant of other people's total fucking ignorance of history and the nature of power while the other guy gets to out people's wives in order to punish them for revealing their EVIDENCE that THERE WAS NO WMD IN IRAQ AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION KNEW IT ALL ALONG. Fucking great. Like the bumper sticker goes, "Common Ground? I'll hug you elephant if you KISS MY ASS."

Homeboy's coup de grace? "She isn't dead, is she?" As if her being alive shows the Bush Administration has some kind of conscience, some sense of restraint in their Machiavellian power grabs. Yeah, just thinking about the dumb-ass people that I share this country makes me real certain that I wanna get the fuck out of it as soon as I can.

Coming up next (I promise) as much data as I can find to back up my CERTAIN premonition that the CIA bombed the London Tube to eliminate discussion of the Kyoto Protocol at the G-8 summit and to shore up Tony Blair's sagging popularity in the UK. Tony Bliar...another stupid cocksucker who can't see the writing on the wall. And the band plays on...