It’s raining. Something about a steady rain always makes me contemplative, as though it helps me feel some connectedness to the greater world, the world outside these walls and out across the valley down the river to the sea, or perhaps to the world within this skull.

I write in my head too often, with a cycle of idea, composition, review that leaves me with something firm in my head. Only, I too often fail to get it down. On the computer. In a notebook. On the back a receipt, even.

So instead, all I am left with are fragmentary ghosts. And those, too, are fleeting, leaving only the troubled nagging feeling one associates with thinking you may have left the oven on. Or was it the stove. The iron? Ah, such is the construct of the less-than-perfectly-regimented life.

But then, really, how good are the ideas that stem from the perfectly regimented life?

Hmm. I think it’s stopped raining. For the moment.

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“The birds are telling me I’m their mommy!”

Birdsong has been described a lot of ways, but I think I like my three-year-old’s the best.

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Awoke to both kids curling up under the covers with me this morning. Who needs coffee, really? That was some bona fide sweetness there. Later in the afternoon, Bekah just curled up in my lap on the couch and we just snuggled. There

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I know this is old, but I only saw it today. You’re welcome.

War Corporatism

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So, dear Rush Limbaugh is being taken to task for the use of the word ‘retard’ on his radio show. This–in and of itself–is completely unsurprising and not very interesting. I mean, this IS the guy with all the taste and class to imitate Michael J. Fox having a seizure, after all.

No, the delicious part is this:

“Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult has taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, ‘retards,” Limbaugh said of the report on Wednesday’s show. “These liberal activists are kooks, they are looney tunes.”

Liberal activists, you say?

You mean, like that tea-baggin’, moose-shooter Sarah Palin? Just a scant few days before Rush ate his foot, Palin was chastising her own colleagues for use of the same word, which in turn was only a day or so after wanting White House Chief of Staff Rom Emmanuel (D) fired for using the same word … about liberals.

Does everyone in D.C. have their heads so far up their own whazoos that no one can see they’re drowning in irony? Honestly, I think these people might be r… ah, challenged.

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Some days you simply don

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Holy. Shit. Just when I thought Bush/Cheney were done bending over America and fucking it in the ass, their supreme court appointees take up the slack. (AND they get to kick John McCain in the balls doing it. Double win for die-hard GOP’ers!)

Today the Supreme Court opened the flood gates for unlimited corporate contributions in campaigns. Read the article or at least listen to the 3 minutes story in the link. All the rules of the ‘game’ just changed. What Obama raised in 2008 through individual contributions will look like petty cash come 2012. Politicians–EVERY politician–will be wholly owned by corporate sponsors. If you thought it was tough getting health care through Congress this past year, it–and any other piece of legislation that might upset special interests/corporations–is now beyond dead.

Outlandish prediction: Heavy backing of pro-business Republican candidates across the board, with huge gains in Congress and local elections. Just as we look back through American history and see the coming and going of political parties, this will later be seen as the death knell of the Democratic Party. How huge is this decision? Republican domination for the next 40 years, until some internal strife fractures that party. Start preparing yourself to hear the words “President Palin.” Start now, because I know it will take some time getting used to.

Sure, that sounds crazy. But so is overturning a cornerstone piece of legislation that’s been around and strengthened over the last 100+ years. Until today.

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