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Howdy to all you late-night Kossacks out there... the above is just yet another gratuitous Photoshop to maybe entice you to offer up some of your opinions. I also want to take the opportunity to thank all you guys and gals that probably inadvertently saw fit to make me number 27 out of the 100 most impactful diarists here at DKos... I have to admit, however, that I'm reminded of the medical term "fecal impaction"... ; )
In case you hadn't noticed, I haven't posted, IMHO, anything of real substance in quite a while... I admit that I have been struggling...
I felt a real calm descend over me after the "thumping" that we gave the conscience of America only two weeks ago... kind of like the scene at the end of the first Matrix where Neo jumps into Agent Smith and explodes him from within...
This feeling lasted for a while, but I found myself pretty quickly wondering, where do I go from here...
What do you do after you've been shouting at the top of your lungs for almost 2 years that the emperor has no clothes, and people finally believe you? After two weeks, I have come to believe that George W. Bush, like a three-year-old embarrassing his parents, is proud of his spontaneous nudity exhibited to the houseguests... the houseguests seem more than willing to continue to cut him some slack by downplaying the merits of impeachment.
I guess that I've kind of descended into a bit of an artistic funk... we've recently had some excellent opposing viewpoints on the status and history of America here in diaries on Daily Kos, sort of love it or leave it viewpoints... I may be wrong, but I think both points of view are somewhat reactionary and miss the mark... At least what I am beginning to feel is that we should be contemplating "America... love it and grieve it"...
The entire debate over "Go short, go long, or stay the course" reminds me of a small child paralyzed in fear as they debate, yanking off the Band-Aid quickly versus slowly... the sad irony being that the child has become eaten up with cancer... Iraq is lost.
How do you satirize and Photoshop a descent into total chaos when it affects you, your country, and the ones you love...? I dare anyone to provide me with a believable scenario that is not an incredible longshot and has America coming out of the next two years not in total ruin...