Howard Dean can stuff it

[viedma]

I'm using some of my old political t-shirts as stuffing. At last they're getting some real use.

The Unabashed Librarian really loved my idea for a article this month. I find that completely charming.

While I don't believe in running more than five miles at a stretch because I'm like, take the bus you showoff, but the feeling I had this weekend when I realized Bush is going to be in office for more than a year, it must be how a marathon runner feels at mile 20. I mean, I really freaked out a little like this is never. going. to end. I think Australia was the last straw. Spain, Ireland, Poland, now the Australians, they all threw the bums out-- WHY ISN'T IT OUR TURN??? And this awful Congress is so chicken to challenge him on anything. Because he's so popular and all. So I'm taking to crafting and cooking instead of despair. Rage, rage against the dying of my spirit!

So. How do you guys cope? Or are you one of the magic 24 percent? I want to hear from you too, if only to point and laugh at you.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I like the cut of your philosophical jib. (And what, you don't think attempted Supreme Court packing was wholly democratic? You heretic, you!)

[traveller.livejournal.com]

there are democrats fainting all over the nation right now, and they have no idea why.

but seriously, when we take a minute and look past the end of our noses, which is to say, long island... what makes us so friggin' special that we shouldn't have some setbacks in our nation building? we've only been hammering at this democracy thang for two hundred years, and examining the social trends of the last hundred, frankly, this crap is right on schedule. we're cursed to live in interesting times. but again, the only way out is through. i have hope. huge unpoppable balloons of it.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Stop being sensible. You're interfering with my theatrical sense of despair.

[traveller.livejournal.com]

i do apologize. fainting couch for milady?

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

*yanks off corsets* Got a beer on you, too?

[traveller.livejournal.com]

alas! i do not. however, if you give me an hour to get home from the office, there's a full bar. what's yer poison?

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Barkeep's choice. I trust ya.

[traveller.livejournal.com]

last night the homo was doing something horrendous with peach schnapps, orange vodka, and cranberry juice. i. i just don't get it.

jack and cokes all around, my friends. there's also budweiser longnecks in the kelvinator.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

And when I'm not feeling really theatrical (like I was a few weeks ago) I would be 100% with you. It's just this feeling of, must we go through the next 13 months of stupid to even think about going forward again? But seeing you with so much hope gives me hope as well.

[traveller.livejournal.com]

not to sound like someone's mother pointing out that that tuna casserole would be really welcome to those kids in Ethiopia, dangit, but our stupid president, for all the damage his administration has done (and I do NOT mean to trivialize it, however because I am absolutely anti-partisan I feel I should also mention that '92 through '00 saw a fair amount of damage dealt, just in some different ways, some of them less immediately obvious and trickle-down effects of poor Clintonian decision making have been felt and blamed on the wrong parties, pun on parties not intended) has not done anything irreversible, and we still have it over the vast majority of the world. thirteen months before there is light at the end of the tunnel, like... that must sound like a cakewalk to someone who's been living in Cuba or China or Iran.

it's easy to be discouraged. it's easy to be cynical. I totally know. and you who've given so much must surely be tired -- I don't blame you for wanting to lay the banner down. but despair won't change our country or our world. my hope is necessary. I think that the more people who truly believe in a better tomorrow, really truly feel it and can see it when they close their eyes, no matter the odds, I think that that does make a difference, the waves of good feeling pass from one person to the next and with each small act of kindness and enlightenment, so does my balloon grow ever larger, brighter, and shinier.

[traveller.livejournal.com]

lord a'mighty, that first paragraph would put Dickens to shame. get the lawyer in to parse that, or just have a stiff drink and close one eye. :D