What am I doing? Why am I not posting constantly, long screeds about the wreckage of our civilization, falling down around us? Why no comments on yet another war in the Mideast? The Senate moving us ever closer to forcing women to reproduce whether they want to or not? Bush sending more troops to Iraq? Lance Bass coming out of the closet (but not until he’s dating a super-hot hunk)? The White House coming with legislation to make legal something the Supreme Court said was illegal? Bush claiming that stem cell research was murder, and with the other hand causing the deaths of untold thousands in Afghanistan and Iraq? The Congress, with no other pressing issues before it, spending time claiming that The Pledge of Allegiance (even the title sounds fascist and un-American to me) is part of our country’s “spiritual history” despite the fact that it was written only 114 years ago, less than half our nation’s history; and the “under God” but was only added in in 1954?
I don’t want to exacerbate my blood pressure or stress levels, of course. I could probably find a way to blame my heart attack on George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and all those other creeps — by the way, why is it that every time I hear Condoleeza Rice’s name in conjunction with the title “Secretary of State” I think that the commentator has made an error?
It is very easy, I’ve found, to slip out of reality and pay no attention to politics or the horrors around the world. And now I feel as if, by doing that, I have become one of those non-voting, non-engaged people who sat back and let things happen around them, part of the problem through inaction.
Give me a few weeks. I’ll be back.
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Nah, it just means that ignorance is bliss and you’re not really used to being ignorant.
Me on the other hand….
Gene, in one paragraph you hit most of the hotpoints. As far as you being back in a few weeks, heck, you’re just saving your energy for the next rant. We’ll wait. Your heart health is more important.