It’s been a while

Well I completely screwed the pooch on staying up to date on the blog and with so much juicy fodder for comment. I mean sweet Jesus! Alberto-GONE! Rove-GONE! Craig-SELF HATING HOMOSEXUAL! The French-OFFERING HELP IN IRAQ! Bush-COMPARING IRAQ TO VIETNAM(and somehow making it in favor of staying)! So many more i can’t even begin to list. My proverbial cup runneth over!

Lets start with something fun. I used to work for John Edwards (yes the Presidential candidate). I have had personal interactions with him both in public settings and behind closed doors. I am going to start by saying this much-THE MAN IS A COLOSSAL ASS! He is about as pampered and two-faced as anyone in the media has painted him. I actually think several of his points are quite noteworthy, but he is a hypocrite. As you may have seen he lives in a 28,000 square foot mansion in Chapel Hil, NC. It so happens that it is approximately 2 miles from my parents house and whenever i go to visit i am forced to drive by it. He also preaches about not driving SUVs and conserving energy, unfortunately he does neither himself.

Senator Craig comes in as our honorable mention for hypocrite of the week. After voting against same sex marriage rights and speaking against the immorality of homosexual behavior he is found to be a closet buggerer. The man has had to deny his sexual persuasion so many times he needs an outgoing message on his voicemail with a disclaimer. If it walks like a duck, smells like a duck, and fucks like a duck…it sure as hell ain’t a bloody platypus.

I won’t bother saying more than goodbye Rove, goodbye Gonzales. I hope you soon have the company of your fellow executive branch hangers on. I also hope that Monica Goodling and Alby are chosen as the first pair to be sent to Mars in order to explore the possibility of human habitation. We can send them there against their will as well, without any reason because as our illustrious former AG says “there is no provision in the Constitution for the guarantee of Habeas Corpus (only a guarantee that it cannot be denied, btw excellent time to argue semantics with a senator you fucking moron).

I feel i let my emotions get the better of me in that last paragraph, but when it comes to torture I’m a teensy bit touchy.  Every morning I get up around 6 and read the news (Washington Post, Slate, BBC, various other blogs, and *side glance* ESPN).  While I am doing this I usually find my blood pressure rising over at least one story and that is usually when I flip to sports because at least there seem to be a couple rules applied there (and the odd bit of accountability).  But I can never shake the questions about how there is almost no discussion about political stories in my daily life.  Full disclosure, I live in Memphis TN which is hardly the education capitol of the nation.

On a daily basis I do run into people who by nature of their existence explain the Bush Presidency.  These are people who personify ‘ignorance is bliss’.  Until I left school I did not understand how talking points and signature slogans had any real effect.  Unfortunately I have realized that having a median IQ of 100 in the US means that around half the population is below this mark (credit Patton Oswalt).  I hear people repeat the sound bites that are circulated by the administration and I am beginning to see the sheer genius of it all.  Because when I try and have a discussion about that point and explain why it might not be as veracious as advertised I see their eyes glaze over.  They have no interest in the real issue or the matters at hand they just want an answer that is simple and memorable, like a gun under their pillow.  This probably sounds more condescending than I mean it to; let me simply state that I truly like and respect these people, they are hard working, honest and loving but they are being taken advantage of.  I believe that the dirty deeds will all come out in the wash eventually and when these trusting folks see what was done in the name of the people there will be hell to pay.

On that note I will leave you to go and watch LSU vs Mississippi State. Yay college football is back!

PEACE, LOVE AND KINE BUD!