The Stinkeye

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Apparently I'm the asshole.  This revelation has occurred to me a couple times throughout my past, but I can't understand how this time it's fault.  What am I talking about you ask?  I'm referring to the freaking the xmas gifts i saw in the store this past week.  You'd have to be living under a rock not to feel the encroachment of the buying, I mean giving season, each successive year - but in 2005 Santa is blown' up big time!  Companies have been hit by slower sales leading up to the buying season this year (somewhat at the hands of oil companies making record windfall profits), so it's understandable they'd be nervous and not in the position to wait until the traditional freak-out the day after Thanksgiving, but this is ridiculous. For a few more weeks I'd just like to just enjoy the dying foliage, the college football season and exploding fried Turkeys before I have to start worrying about how to package my feelings for someone in a shinny wrapped box. 

But I digress.  Since I'm really here to help, here's the perfect gift for that special someone if you're already running out of ideas...

This is gonna to hurt me more than it's gonna to hurt you.

 

It's easy. Turn off the news. Stop reading the paper. Put on your iPod. Get into your little cocoon so you don't have to deal with all that stuff going on in the world. You know what I'm taking about - over 2,000 soldiers killed taking over a country we never had the right to invade, politicians feeding us talking points instead of answers to our questions, the hypocrisy of GM running ads with American flags talking about their commitment to fuel efficiency, the abomination of America's pastime (the DH), the 4-hour erection pill, etc.  I instead choose (as you have as well) to put it out there and hopefully add to the ever-growing Zeitgeist. Power to the people I say.

Not because I think it’s the biggest story of the moment, but because it’s top-o-mind for me today is the current state of the Dems. They finally grew some balls and called the “ruling” party on the mat for not delivering the information they promised almost a year ago – and don’t forget, the Brits completed their investigation into Pre-war intelligence a long time ago. The real issue here is the average American is distracted and insulated so they’vie forgotten about the whole “what the fuck happened to the Wm's” question. You can’t fault W for it, if no one is really going to push the issue, why not just duck the issue and wait for people to forget since people vote for simple issue like banning gay marriage, not complex ones that take more than a sound bite to explain.

Come back. Post what you think. I’ll try to keep making it worth your time.