omgwtf!

I should so be working right now…but I’m distracted and I stumbled across this op-ed piece on the New York Times site.

I don’t always agree with what Bob Herbert has to say, but he’s usually a good writer. I just read his article linked below, and even though I try never to link New York Times articles because you have to register to read them, I had to link this one. Read it. Really. It’s a good ‘un. I emailed him about it, thanking him for being one of the rare members of the press who actually calls things the way they are.

Registration is free, and if you look over there to your right, amidst the various links is a link for something called Bug Me Not. It’s your loyal friend in the fight against unnecessary website nosiness!

I’m being chipper here, but let me tell you something: since Cindy Sheehan set up her vigil outside the Bush ranch in Crawford, I have been getting sicker by the day. It’s come to the point now where I despise this administration and all it stands for so deeply that some days all I want to do is stay in bed with my head under a pillow and not come out until January 21, 2009.

I am sickened by the American people. I am ashamed of being an American. I am stunned and outraged and flabbergasted by the fact that we are not only doing nothing to change what’s going on, but that we dont even appear to be thinking about it on any level at all, except perhaps to pause and call people like Cindy Sheehan and anyone else who dares to question anything at all names and accuse them of being unAmerican traitors.

What is happening in this country is so patently surreal, so totally unfathomable to me, that I feel like I’m losing my mind. I feel like I’ve stumbled into an alternate universe where evil is the status quo and everyone has a diabolical little black pointy beard, and I’m the only one who is appalled by what they consider normal.

How did we get to this place? How can we have survived so long making such poor choices, and supporting such evil people? Why do we allow this to continue? What is going to become of us?

How am I going to live like this, on the insane edge of a bottomless chasm? I can barely hold myself together now, as it is. If things are just going to get worse…will I find the energy to keep fighting in spite of the madness closing in all around me? Where?

I have to get back to work.

Blood Runs Red, Not Blue – New York Times

Edit: Eerie. This is today’s quote from my random quote generator up there. Douglas Adams said:

No, it’s not good news. But what else can I do? The only other alternative is to shut up and take it…or worse, give up everything I have always stood for and join the hawks. Neither option is anything something I could ever do and still be able to look at myself in the mirror every day.

You know, Douglas Adams speaks to me directly at odd, unexpected times, and always with a really creepy kind of relevance. He thought there was no life after death. I’m here to tell you that he’s full of shit, and furthermore, he loves fucking with me like this, that son of a bitch.