Choices, choices, comin' in from all directions do you know how to pony like bony maroney?

As I was trying to pick a topic to write about, I became overwhelmed by all the choices. Then I got depressed. I mean I got really depressed, the type of depression where you have wet rags where your bones are supposed to be. I guess I just feel immobilized by the sea of possibilities, sort of like when you go to the grocery store to buy deodorant and there are 106 different brands of deodorant -- which one best expresses who I am? Am I going for that shower fresh scent, or do I want my armpits to smell like a bunch of flowers? Do I feel like rocking a contrived Axe fragrance today, or would I rather work that whole "socially conscious urban guy who probably drives a Prius" image by wearing Tom's of Maine? Wait. Why am I talking about deodorant?

Oh right, choices. I couldn't decide what to focus on today. Have you fucking seen the news lately?

This nation is populated by incandescent idiots who protest "socialized medicine" at "town hall" meetings, and the only people who outshine them are the liberals who defend the president's health care plan as though it even vaguely resembles something within light years of universal health coverage.


From the front page of CNN.com today:

Dolly Parton admitted to being "over-exaggerated".

Did you know they haven't even buried Michael Jackson yet?

Celine Dion is having another child.

"Gosselin galpal says, 'I'm no fame whore!'" (I don't know what the fuck that's about, nor do I want to)

"What if you DO need a man?"

A pack of dogs kills an elderly couple.

A widow paints a giant mural of dying husband

And last but not least, we are reminded how lucky we are to live in a democracy with a free press, unlike those poor folks in Venezuela with an evil dictator who is trying to control the media. If the media is owned by a few billionaires who control the dissemination of news, then you have a democracy and freedom of speech (as long as you can afford to buy it from them). If the government controls the dissemination of information, well, that's totalitarianism.

So many choices, praise Jesus! Ain't that America? For you and me? Too bad there aren't enough little pink houses to go around though.

Since I lack the ability to even rant, I am just going to be a leach a steal some choice quotes from around the blogosphere.

Field Negro says:

If Michael Vick had killed and abused little black babies not one of the people in an uproar now would give a flying fuck. There are players in the NBA and NFL who father multiple children and don't take responsibility for them, and no one cares. If those same players had abandoned their dogs the way they did their kids there would be hell to pay. Right here in Philly there was a popular baseball player who battered his wife, and the public outcry from the Philly faithful was nothing like it is now. I wonder why?

This Southern Faggot says:

All I have been able to think about recently is setting up a needle exchange in town. We need it so fucking bad. I might have found someone friendly inside the health department who is going to help me.

I have been talking to lots of people about this and the general consensus is that ‘It’s illegal, therefore you CAN’T do it!’. But darling, don’t you realize that just means we need it more? What kind of dreadful attitude is that?

Mattilda says:

I’m thinking about the way that every electronic musician likes to thank God, thank God for the music and I can’t think of any book I’ve ever opened that thanks God, I mean I’m sure it’s happened but with music it’s almost everywhere, maybe God is in the beats but not the words and I’m not sure when Moby became a Christian but he’s definitely a Christian on this album, the album when I stopped listening to him because it’s the one where suddenly he was on billboards for Apple, maybe music doesn’t threaten culture like books, the ideas more covert or interior unless the musician is also expressing the ideas outside of the music but then music is such an industry it can swallow that too. Of course we’re living in backlash time, backlash means backwards and every time I hear about another right-wing frenzy around this health care reform charade that only means more money for the insurance companies but even a hint of a supposed public option means it’s too much sometimes it just shocks me that this is the country where I’m living.

Mickey Z says:

In the words of Richard Marcus: “Even if every single person in the United States were to change all their light-bulbs to fluorescent, cut the amount they drive in half, recycle half of their household waste, inflate their tire pressure to increase gas mileage, use low flow shower heads and wash clothes in lower temperature water, adjusts their thermostats two degrees up or down depending on the season, and plant a tree, it would result in a one time, 21% reduction in carbon emissions.”

For those of you scoring at home, that’s a one time, 21% reduction in carbon emissions. We compost, we drive hybrids, we bring our own bag to the market but meanwhile, the U.S. military and its fellow polluters—transnational corporations—treat the planet like it’s a porta-potty...with little or no opposition from the general population. In fact, the military typically enjoys unconditional support even from those who identify as “anti-war.”

Keep this in mind the next time you hear the phrase “war on terror”: Our tax dollars are subsidizing a global eco-terror campaign and all the recycled toilet paper in the world ain’t gonna change that.

Brielle says:

Corporate consumer society removes identity, homogenizes it’s citizens in their own eyes. We are programmed to look in the mirror and see that we are imperfect specimens who need products and treatments to try and shore up our presentation. We have no real interest in who we are presenting to. We are programmed narcissists, programmed consumers who have lost faith in being human.

The state of feminism is under siege by the media. In a digital information culture everything is reduced to a sample, an easily accessible transferable shell, a facsimile – the essence of things is becoming less and less important. Feminism is being sold in every bottle and bauble imaginable to the extent where the trope, the meme, the icon is meaningless.

It seems there is only one truth left to be stomped on. It has no name yet, but it is under scrutiny, and it will be found. It is the final battle of humanity, the last belief. Give it up, what are you waiting for?

Dave Lindorff says:

This is not about civil discourse. This is about propaganda. The Obama administration and the Democratic Congressional leadership have sold out health care reform for the tainted coin of the medical-industrial industry, and are holding, or trying to hold, these meetings around the country to promote legislation that has essentially been written for them by that industry--legislation that will force everyone to pay for insurance as offered, and priced, by the private insurance industry. What a deal for those companies--a captive market of 300 million people! There will be little or no effort to control prices, and the higher costs will be financed through higher taxes, and through cuts in Medicare benefits.

This isn't "reform." It's corruption, pure and simple....

The only proper response at this point is obstruction, and the more militant and boisterous that obstruction, the better.

That's all for now, folks.

I think I am gonna go take a 10 year nap. Wake me up before you go-go.

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