the issue, as the current president tried to make it anyhow, was iraq and how the world is a safer place now because of it.

he said that we were attacked, and that we had to respond. iraq didn’t attack us. iraq wasn’t a threat. the president said that iraq would only become a stronger threat if we hadn’t ignored international protocol and moved in on a defenseless country. iraq never threatened us, and were dirt poor. we found no weapons. no threats were ever made. obviously, the war on iraq was a biased, personal vendetta brought on by the president and his family. let’s be clear about that.

the problem is, i can say one thing, you can say another. where’s the proof? and even if you have proof, i don’t have to believe it because it’s you that’s saying it. this, my fellas, is the political atmosphere of today. distrust, agression, fear, anger. who did this? well, i don’t know if you’d believe me, but i’d guess it’s the president’s agenda of lies and fear.

the war on terror is a joke, but we haven’t even been hunting the terrorists that comprise the enemy side of the ‘war’. bush saying that the world is better without hussein is moot. the world would be better without the genocide in sudan, but i don’t see the president rushing to bully the world into silence while he pushes our arms and money into the country to do something about it. maybe that’s because the international community might actually welcome an end to the genocide(despite the uncomfortable reaction of bordering muslim nations that might fear for the next ‘iraq’ situation once american troops were placed in sudan).

where was the genocide in iraq? sure, there was political oppression, killings, imprisonments, but i can’t count the number of countries in the world where this exists on my hands and feet.

the president didn’t answer any of the direct questions. he didn’t raise any relevant attacks on his competitor(which i suppose isn’t required since the people just wanna see the president up there swaggering with that vacant crackhead look in his eyes). he said he was in a position to ‘comment to and discuss to’ the president of russia. i won’t list the other dumb new words and phrases he used, ‘new’ meaning incorrect in any slang.

i don’t care about the republican bias of the media. kerry was the clear winner, and i think anyone who cleared the wax out of their ears before listening to the ‘debate’ realizes this. crackhead.

peace

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linda has a paragraph up. shed love to get email from you all.

last night, it seemed hotmail was off – no more ability to pop messages to an email program. this morning, its working again. i do know they indeed on making this a ‘pay only’ feature. if that happens and if i cant find a workaround, ill be switching to another mail provider for my ‘casual’ account. ive got a gmail address already waiting, but i dont want my messages on the server, i want them on my machine. or both. thats really the best. but its annoying to lose the hotmail, even if it gets way too much spam.

i have the denton’s wedding on sat up in santra barbara. nothing against him, but im so tired, im already really not looking forward to it. blech. there goes my sat (on, in my head, what i thought was going to be a ‘do little’ weekend).

happy thursday. now start drinking.

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I’m humble enough to admit that somedays the better half of me is held together by caffeine and chocolate. Too little sleep. Too much to do. And a job that requires singular commitment and attention to my 24-pound boss.

But today something special happened. Someone reached out and let me know they thought I was doing a good job. At about noon, the doorbell rang. It was the florist. With flowers. From my wife.

When’s the last time you told someone how they were doing?

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This came out in the news today. And as i was watching the daily show today I really revelled in the fact that someone is finally going to war with the Rightwing Media machine, the existing administration and the farce that has become american politics. Unfortunately as I was laughing I realized that the news is not all good. the littany of things that are “too bad” includes 1) the daily show is not going to be considered a legitimate source of political insight or commentary, no matter what the recent studies show, and 2) that kerry might be are last and best hope against the forces of evil is sissier than Luke Skywalker was at the begining of episode 4. I hope that the debates slide the polls more in his favor, but he has still not actually made his platform clear to anyone. the only things that i think the public can trust him to do in office is to attempt to fix our current international reputation and hopefully slide the country back towards the middle and out of the hands of the right wing fascists who snatched it out of our hands because not a single american realized that they should be hanging on to control over their political future/rights. These are meager hopes but it’s pretty much all I’ve got left. God Speed, Kerry, God Speed.

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due to circumstances that exceed my direct grasp, i can’t really post at the moment. i have some rethinking, reconfiguing, readjusting to do, but i promise i haven’t disappeared. in the meantime, keep me in your thoughts as i invade nyc with gajillions of other pink-clad crazy folk doing the breast cancer walk this weekend.

love and kisses,
you-know-who

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Watching Kerry struggle to define a difference between his policies and The Shrub’s, I find myself, oddly, missing Howard Dean.

Frankly, what the Democrats needed was a someone who could galvanize the populace. Instead, they went with the safe bet.

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I have once again become a commuter. It’s only for one night each week, for a class I have in Beaverton (ugh), but it still feels like a desperate time, and we all know what that calls for. My answer to my slight change in circumstances has been to become an avid listener to books on tape. It’s great; I’m starting to get the hang of it. I started out with loftier material that is, frankly, better suited to the page (Orlando, The People’s History of the United States and the like). The problem with those is that they demand too much of your attention, and too much brainpower. Instead, I find that plot-heavy novels work best. I’m steadily working my way through the oeuvre of Agatha Christie, though I’m currently listening to Apt Pupil. (It’s engaging, but I have yet to develop an opinion that goes much further than that.)

The class in Beaverton is Women in Rock, so it’s well worth it. Family/Childhood History is good; Criminology is fantastic!; and Contemporary Women Writers is going to be more of a book club than a class, I think. Today was supposed to be the first meeting for History of Sexualities, but it ended up being freakishly short (fifteen minutes? twenty?). The professor was sick, so we just got syllabi and books. Fine by me. I’m delighted that three out of my five classes are fantastically intellectual–the readings are dense and challenging, both to one’s intellect and one’s belief system. Rock. Also, lots of the professors are the sorts who constantly recommend other books ‘for further reading,’ which will make nice additions to my wishlist. Excellent.

Lastly, someone sent me Eleni Mandell’s Afternoon and the soundtrack to Pieces of April via Amazon. No note, no nothing. But whoever it was, and for whatever occasion: thank you. I’m enjoying both of them immensely.

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