My Bleeding Ears
Jan 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 pm by Maya
I lasted fifteen minutes. Most of them consisted of camera pans and commentary. I think the bile began to rise into my mouth about five seconds after “Madam Speaker.”
I know, I know - it’s just dogs and ponies, and it’s always bullshit. But listening to self-congratulatory spouting about cleaning up his own messes like somebody else made them while Dick smirks knowingly in the background like the frat boy who holds down his buddy’s drunk conquest makes my soul shrivel up and crawl as deep inside of its protective shell as it can go, all the while clawing desperately for some deeper purchase, some inter-dimensional fold into which it might creep, wherein all the nightmares of the past six years might be able to be shrugged off as some late night snack-induced bizarre and vivid bad dream.
Sure, sure, call me a bad citizen, whatever, but in the name of inner peace and avoiding aneurysm I just had to shut it off. I’m sure the highlights will be impossible to ignore tomorrow, and I think I can pretty safely assume that it’s the same empty promises, the same hollow patriotism, the same blind disregard for the pursuit of anything resembling happiness (if it doesn’t come with a big side of massive corporate profiteering), and the same pretense that everything is just peachy, thanks - America has never been better, by golly!
And at the end of this sadly comical parade not a damn thing will change - tomorrow will be another day of the same murderous self-tied Gordian knot of a foreign policy, the same gleeful pillaging of what’s left the middle class, the same casually malignant raping of all that America once represented. Except that we’ll be a couple hours closer to January 20, 2009.
See what happens when you try to watch sober?
you have to love how New Orleans got no love!
What a guy, he is going to get hammered it for it and it has already started. I love it.
impeach the bastard, someone! anyone!
Oh, susielove. I am not exactly sober, so I lasted longer than you.
Have you read the Jeff Sharlatt piece at Harper’s, “Through A Glass Darkly”? He concludes his piece with the observation that “Fundamentalism is writing us out of history”.
Can you imagine a time to come when no one will know we objected?
Come to think of it, my immediate recollection of the Harper’s article may be a function of not being sober. Oh, I do not know which is the worser.
By the way, a present is being sent to you via Amazon. Next two to three weeks.
http://www.harpers.org/ThroughAGlassDarkly-12838838.html
I admire your staying power but, really, for the lidfe of me I couldn’t think of any reason to force myself to listen to that self-absorbed drooling idiot.
But raise a pint for the bloggers chained themselves to their lcd’s and endured it–even part of it–on our behalf.
I gather the rotten pablum he served up was an improvement compared to the high density excrement he’s presented in the past–so in fact it may have been his finest oration.
New Orleans? Well we all could be next. And these evil bastards just do not care. Why do we even pay taxs anymore? Please impeach their asses NOW!
maya, you made it longer than i did. as soon as he mentioned how well the economy was doing, i told myself i just can’t do it, and returned to
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=101990