A righteous rant unfolds below.
You know what I want?
I want Presidential critics on the left to understand the working realities of a Republican led house and what 60 votes in the senate really means.
I want the President's supporters to understand that being a critic doesn't make one an enemy and to remember that a man named Theodore Roosevelt said that dissent is patriotic.
I want people to remember that we're all in this together, whether we like it or not.
I want the lady at the Tea Party rally with the sign screaming about socialism to get out of the scooter that Medicare bought for her fat ass so that someone who appreciates it can use it.
I want the media to do their fucking jobs and actually report on the news, explaining the nuances and telling people what the various bills and laws actually say and do rather than regurgitating preprinted talking points from "both sides" and calling it objective.
I want the powers that be to understand that Paul Krugman knows what the fuck he's talking about when it comes economics, and I want Paul Krugman to understand that he knows little about the political reality of getting shit done.
I want Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh to get gay married in Tennessee because it's okay to be Takei!
I want bankers to start jumping out of some fucking windows or at least have the decency to resign in shame.
I want the troops to come home because they've earned it, and they deserve better than they're getting.
I want the Republican primary to be settled by putting all of the candidates in a steel cage with a single copy of the Constitution, and the first one that can actually explain what it means gets to come out and rejoin society. Or they can just do survival of the fittest. That might be easier.
I want all of the rich Libertarians to go make their floating Galtian utopia and leave the rest of us to fix the mess they've left behind.
I want the most recent episode of Louie where he goes to Afghanistan to win an Emmy because it's that fucking brilliant.
I want food to be priced in correlation to how good it is for you, so that the poor can finally eat healthy and the rich can get fucking fat and complain about how expensive health insurance is.
I want the kind of Internet access and download speeds they have in South Korea.
I want to finish my novel, become rich and famous, and spend all of my money making my wife as happy and comfortable as she can be for however many years she has left.
I want people to think before they speak, speak before they act, and act before they complain.
I just want to enjoy the simple things.