I'm one of those who kind of went to sleep after John Edwards dropped out of the primaries and the Clinton/Obama Media-fueled marathon began in earnest back in February and March. I got so fed up with the Corporate Media's manipulation of the "horse race" that I completely tuned out, sat in a tree, cut the soles off my shoes, and learned to play the guitar.
So there I was this weekend, away in a mountain paradise, playing my new favorite guitar 8 or 9 hours a day when suddenly this slutty librarian shows up on my TeeVee and gets my attention. Her rugged good looks and porn-like appeal seduced me. Like Paul Guilfoyle's character in "The Local Stigmatic" (my shameless plug for an unknown masterpiece), I didn't want to look, but I couldn't look away and actually wound up watching a disgustingly large dose of the Republican Convention. As I'm sure you've surmised by now, I was appalled.
Well I've woken up, it seems. I'm writing again, at least I am today, and that speaks volumes because the music in my head still beckons me. That awful show of greed, arrogance, and spiteful nastiness has energized me once again to revive this blog and get active once again. Maybe I'll even write a song or something.
I will leave you with two things.
The first is a link to another inspiring article by the inimitable TRex:
And that, of course,<span style="color: #000000;"> to answer Jessica’s question,</span> is why she inspires such spitting rage in anyone with a higher than room temperature IQ. Palin is the veritable epitome of a certain gorgon that appears in every bright, unconventional person’s evolution, the glassy-eyed, vindictive, forcibly cheery robotic Enforcer of the Status Quo who will do absolutely everything she can to punish and humiliate you for not being docile and gormless like the other kids. She doesn’t think it’s safe for you to be taught evolution or to read Harry Potter. In fact, she wants the government to make all moral decisions for all families in the name of protecting The Children.
For me, she was a high school teacher, a Bible thumping, buttoned-up Talibangelical who petitioned our (also fundie) principal to have me sent to the Alternative School for being openly gay. She insisted that I posed "a danger to students" and exerted a "Charles-Manson-like" pull over other kids by "promoting a dangerous and amoral lifestyle".
The principal declined to act on her suggestion, although I suspect that my volcanically angry parents may have had some influence over his decision. Also, two or three more level-headed teachers came to my aid, but it was a close one.
Later on, of course, that sweet-voiced termagant’s own children went feral. Her eldest son (surprise!) failed out of Georgia Tech after he got a young lady pregnant. He married her, but both bride and groom were living at home with their parents again within a month. I think he’s still there, actually.
And this is why I’m going to break the next sanctimonious finger that gets waved in my face by one of these Christian Fascist types, who preach their "Family Values" at me while living lives that are so, so far from spotless. Bristol Palin and her baby-daddy Levi are neither one bound for college at this point, both below drinking age and already roped into a PR-mandated shotgun marriage that will doubtless end in bitterness and divorce. Meanwhile, even Howard Kurtz isn’t above mentioning reports that Governor Palin’s eldest son Track enlisted in the military not out of patriotism, but as a means of avoiding prison time that resulted from an arrest for vandalism and possession and possible distribution of cocaine.
The Palins are clearly a family in crisis, a bleeding sacrifice on the altar of their mother’s overweening ambition. And apparently the kids didn’t learn these acting-out behaviors far from home, either.
Andrew Sullivan:
Family Values Update
05 Sep 2008 02:42 pm
Is the party of traditional marriage aware that the vice-presidential nominee actually eloped with her now-husband? And just in case you missed it: Scott Richter, Todd Palin’s former business partner, has just filed an emergency motion to seal his divorce papers.
And there you have it, the blazing hypocrisy that lies in every Right Winger’s heart in one neat, easy nutshell. Sarah Palin wants to be able to tell you how to live your life and raise your kids when she can’t even manage her own.
The second is a video that made me feel a little better about things:
(Originally posted at Amachewahwah)