Whack Jobs August 24, 2005 ~ 10:08 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackback
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn
I was going to post a happy little thing about the stuff I got the girls for their birthdays (two weeks apart, Rick, you should have planned that better so that we wouldn’t go broke in September and December). Then I decided to scrap that in favor of writing about the poo-flinging monkeys my co-workers, who are annoying the shit out of me this week by proving that they never learn how to do anything correctly, they just pretend that they do to lull me into a false sense of security. You may still get a post about them, because at this rate, one of the monkeys will be dead before the week is out. I just have to decide which one to kill with the laser beams that are now shooting out of my eyes from rage (thanks to Dooce for that imagery).
However, on the way into work, I read the newspaper. Ah, the newspaper, fodder for my rants. Freddie Mercury once announced “I feel a little boogie coming on†before Queen played “Another One Bites the Dust.†Well, I feel a little ranting coming on.
This morning’s paper featured two equally heinous things. One was Pat Robertson, or as the paper I read has re-christened him, the Evangelinator. He has decided that the answer to our oil problems is to assassinate Venezuela’s president. Two words: whack job. (As in, Robertson’s a fucking nut, not “we should whack that guy Chavez.â€) On the other hand, the amount of scrambling the White House is currently doing to distance themselves from the man who up till now has symbolized Bush’s support base is pretty fucking funny. As was Rumsfeld’s comment on the situation: “Certainly it’s illegal.†But in the back of my head, I realize that the Evangelinator isn’t a total whack job, because he was just supporting a position our government has taken before. They put people into office; they take them out of office when that person is no longer an advantage. If they hadn’t done it before, would Gerald Ford have had to make political assassination illegal in the 1970s? No.
The other newspaper item which wasn’t nearly so funny or as true was that Asshat has shot his mouth off about Cindy Sheehan, saying that she doesn’t represent the opinions of other military families. All right, Asshat, in one respect you are right: she is not an elected official for military families, so she doesn’t represent them. But if other military families didn’t agree with what she’s doing, would she have so many supporters? How dare you infer (do you know that word, Asshat?) that other military families don’t think you’re wrong! How in gay hell can you be so fucking sheltered that you don’t realize people hate your war and hate what you’re doing to their kids? Oh, wait, you’ve spent most of the summer vacationing on your little ranch, where you don’t have to hear anything you don’t want to hear. Asshole.
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