Lashing Out

- Man they are really putting the screws to those striking transit workers in NYC and I am beyond cheesed off. The mayor, Pataki, the courts, the goddamned media- everybody is crapping on those valiant folks and I have had enough. How dare Americans FIGHT for their rights and work benefits! Why if I can't have a pension- why should they? Shocking! Jebus, for a country that worships football (America rules) and war this skittishness about workers standing tall and fighting for theirs is frankly un-American p#@@%ness; ruddy wuss out central, and it disgusts me.

- This news story, "Growing Population Shifts Political Power," coupled with this news story, "Kilt Wearing Teen Seeks Dress Code Change" freaked me out. I mean, these ding dongs should not be getting more clout in our country, in the 21st Century. Banning bloody kilts for the prom?!? How damned backward is that authority figure? Are they so closeted out there that they haven't even seen Braveheart? I salute that kid for standing up to the backward dingleberries.

- Those sheltered fools are almost as out of the larger loop as the "intelligent design" crowd, who are apparently so consumed with simultaneously denying that it's all about God AND saying that of course it's all about God that they are blissfully unaware that the fundamental concept of a "higher power" being responsible for complex humans like us has been a trope of science fiction and comic books forever, whether it's benevolent pre-historic aliens on Star Trek, extradimensional mice in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, midichlorians in Star Wars, etc. Yeesh, these people need to either 1) get the hell out of the house or 2) turn on the bloody TV, and definately 3) LEAVE US AND SCIENCE ALONE.

- Oh yeah, this country is @#$%ed. Totally @#$%ed. If seeing that informercial late the other night selling quasi Holy Water that upon receipt blesses your mailbox with money from Heaven (so ludicrous, so profane that I thought it HAD to be a joke- until it went on for 10 minutes) didn't convince me of this then seeing that informercial at work yesterday (the nearby tv only gets Channel 29 lately) which basically featured women with big gazongas selling a scam that involves blissful boobs making LOADS OF MONEY selling "The Best Vitamin in the World" certainly did. Ye Gods! It was preposterous in the extreme, and a horrific portent for the future of our nation... I just can't get the voice of Cletus the Slackjawed Yokel saying "but the teevee sed I could ern tooo thousan' dollars in en hour!" out of my head....