Mood:
quizzicalNow Playing: kevin and bean show on kroq 106.7
there's some sort of election going on today
apparently, it just may be the most important election in the history of mankind (and that includes all of future history). seriously, they would have us believe this election could end in the destruction of the earth itself, or the glory of earthly paradise, with all nations standing together in democratic wonder, singing kumbaya
cause democracy and the right to have your voting status questioned by "challengers" is the way to go, THE way to live. every human deserves the right to have trouble figuring out where the hell his polling place even is, since his supposed absentee voter status didn't get him a absentee ballot for this latest election (really, i'm not talking about anyone in particular. did you think i was talking about anyone in particular, rambo? (two points to anyone who gets that reference)). see, it's supposed to be in the high school a couple blocks west of here. officially, it's in the high school, and i'm all for finding legal reasons to enter high schools and all, but you'd think there'd be some sort of sign out front saying--i don't know--VOTE HERE. seems sorta obvious
but, i guess that's too easy
in other news, bin laden thinks we're more intrusive on his part of the world than sweden is. everyone knows sweden shoves its culture down the throats of the world's populace. i mean, not a day goes by, not a day, that there aren't swatches being dropped on the unsuspecting citizens of at least one nation, not a day that heathens and infidels the world over are not introduced to the greatness that is lederhosen, not a day that the children of the world aren't forced to learn the words to Schweizerpsalm...
or is that just us that do that?
of course, it's not JUST us. but, being the "most powerful nation on the planet" comes with some privileges in addition to the responsibilities (those ones we shirk when we decided to get into arbitrary wars instead of actually trying to fix the world's problems). and, those privileges include the right to be sure that garfield the movie makes it to pakistan as well as bavaria, that new episodes of joey can be seen in south africa as well as taiwan, and that free elections can be contested by all the candidates and their attorneys in every nation from afghanistan to iraq
what's that government where the smart people rule? meritocracy? why don't we try that for a while to be different? why let the common man, who seem to get stupider every year in this country, pick which major party gets to designate who gets to bomb the third worlders this time? or how 'bout we drop the whole thing and elect bush emperor or right hand man to god? afterall, he thinks god is behind what he does and just may believe he's put us into the middle of armageddon with iraq, which at least would make the whole thing a little better, i suppose. at least we'd know it ends well, after the years of bloodshed and pain
seriously, though, isn't it time for a revolution? and, a peaceful one will do just fine. it's too late, i'm sure to get a third party involved in the office of the president for this election, but why don't we try, in four years, to not treat the "third party" candidates like useless trash, distractions to steal votes from the real deal? why don't we pretend for a while that there is a third party and a fourth party and a fifth and a sixth and... well, however many are actually involved. there are a hell of a lot more than just two, and some of those don't even want us to kill people and posthumously label them as terrorists or complicit bystanders. some of them don't want to spy on us and restrict our rights and tells us who we can and cannot marry, who we can and cannot abort
perhaps, with a little effort, we could slide out from under mother culture's boot and make a new go at living productive lives that don't destroy everything around us
or we could make sure the next law & order spinoff can compete with the next csi spinoff for key demographics in egypt and kuwait and "liberal" can remain another name for evil instead of a relatively value free adjective
watchlist for today:
- one episode of arrested development left on the dvd from blockbuster, then i'll rent the third volume to watch in time for the second season premiere
- random bits of news coverage
- the daily show indecision 2004 special
- veronica mars "the return of kane"
- life as we know it "partly cloudy, chance of sex" (and chance of dropping this show if it doesn't make itself a little more interesting
and i've got to work on writing some of clubhouse blues today (when i get offline in a few minutes) and vote and have lunch with sarah and take her to class after work and read a little of my ishmael or the three unread comics on my desk (powers, amelia rules! and strangers in paradise), plus look after the kids and make something good for dinner and... i'm probably forgetting a few things. it's a busy, busy tuesday
quote for today: the most dangerous man, to any governmetn, is the man who is able to think things over for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. and even if he is not romantic, personally, he is very apt to spread discontent amont those who are. - h l mencken