M. (hristine

Oh man.

My 12 year old turned me on to this album over the weekend:

Hope you have a tremendous year Maudie. Happy birthday!

Life and death are far less messy when you can watch on a little screen.

I guess the election post buzz is now over. I'm invoking Godwin's Law.* *As a ViaChicago discussion wears on, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

So last night I get to the episode where Hank and Karen do it, and I'm not surprised. I rarely watch series when they are actually on so I'm used to knowing plot lines before I see them.

I was waiting for her to cut to the chase.

Yeah.

Goddammit.

Bah.

I am watching the first season of Californication. Less boobies? Maybe process addiction treatment is working for Duchovny.

Clearly the economic collapse of the Soviet Union was complex, but the 10 year war in Afghanistan was a contributing factor. That's how little quick guys beat big lumbering guys. Guerilla tactics. And there is a financial guerilla war still waging. These words burned in my memory 4 years ago: In November 2004, CNN reported that Bin Laden released a video monologue to Al-Jazeera where the terror-savvy, extreme fundamentalist announced plans to continue a

Bin Laden predicted it in 2004 when he promised to raise the Al Qaeda flag in the furthest corner of the world and bleed our economy dry like he did for 10 years in the Soviet Union. We consume rather than manufacture, spend rather than save. We are ripe for it.

Oh. I like to think of my fellow citizens as a bit more savy than that I guess. I think most adults can grasp that we are in a heap of shit right now and it's going to take quite a long time to dig out. It's good to have someone with some grace and intelligence and maybe even vision to start the process. But then, when I meet Buddha on the road I always kill him.

I'm not sure how one makes the leap from the media throwing him up the pop charts to Obama buying into the media's hype.

Because her own self loathing is not quite enough?

Whoa.

I totally wiffed this post. I would give a lot to see you posing all Bowie glammy. Hope you're all hunkered down in your new digs!

So I've been told.

Gary?

Christ.

A very slim majority. There is still huge disparity between urban and rural voters.