January 20, 2005

Hoo Boy

[Note: we're dropping out of our normal third-person writing style for this one. This time it's personal...]

This is getting to be too much for me. The personal nightmare that was gleefully foisted on me late last year by those closest to me seems to have lowered my tolerance for unfeeling inhuman monsters who like to take advantage of their fellow man (imagine that!). Combine that with the continual assault on our liberties by the traitorous Repugnicants currently running this country into the ground, and you could be dealing with some serious mental mindfrelling. Not to the level our brave soldiers face when they have to confront reality once again (or to the level their unfortunate innocent victims face, either*.), but still...

Which I guess is a long-winded way of saying that I really don't want the personal betrayal of some trailer trash to be affecting me like this. I guess it sometimes happens when you're abandoned by those you hold close, and then left to stew about it in isolation** (and I'm also guessing that now is one of those times). I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the dozens of regulars who have seen it creep into these pages over the last few months. Every other minute All day and all night Occasionally it's more than I can bear...

Hoo boy! Now that I've gotten that out of my system (hopefully), I would also like to take this opportunity to show you a few things I found by way of some of my friends on the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogistan:

Via The Sideshow and Bad Attitudes (for some reason the name of this blog stuck a chord of resonance with me these days), I am informed that the FEC is harassing a company whose owner was a major Kerry contributor by the good folks over at Campaign Extra.

Also via The Sideshow and Bad Attitudes I see that the crooked cop in Tulia who sent a lot of people to jail with fraudulent charges, made-up evidence, and lies, has been given a slap on the wrist for his behavior in uniform. Must be all those compassionate conservatives in Texas who feel like it's okay to send the riff-raff to prison based on no evidence and some trumped up falsehoods by one of their own good ole boys. Did I mention that the cop's on record making racial slurs, and that all of his victims were minorities?

I also see, via quite a few people fighting the good fight these days, that Riverbend over at Baghdad Burning has a book deal. Congrats!

And finally, most of our compatriots have already linked to a site which details why There Is No Crisis in Social Security. You should go take a look and see what the latest Putsch handjob propaganda disinformation campaign is trying to lie to us about.

* - trollphylactic: I don't like terrorists or groups of religious zealots who enforce their version of their Invisible Cloud Being's laws on their own. And I don't consider them innocents in this situation. But the Iraqi citizens who are being murdered just because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time - that's a different story altogether.

I also do wish to impugn the good name of monsters or all denizens of trailer parks - I'm sure that some good natured souls inhabit the mobile home subdivisions in various locations...

** - I have had tremendous (one could almost say sanity-saving) support from family, friends, and fellow bloggers. I do not wish to slight them in any way for helping me deal with this. But now there's an echo in the halls of my humble abode that I can't quite seem to get rid of...

Posted by (: Tom :) at January 20, 2005 12:01 AM