April 29, 2008

Got The Funk

Fryday, 5 Reckning 2008

But it's not a good groove these days:

After winning the first game of the series in overtime, the Montreal Canadiens duffed the next two games of the series, and now stand in a 2-1 series hole that they need to get themselves out of if they hope to continue on the road to the Cup. So that beat is a bit out of synch with the rhythms of my heart.

I have also been sick with whatever bug has been going around lately. It will be two weeks Thursday since its' onset here at the Funny Farm, and hopefully I will be past the major situational challenges presented to me by this malady by then. Lots of coughing, chest congestion, sinus congestion, plus headaches, bodyaches, loss of appetite, and diarrhea. Sorry if I have not been inspired to contribute at any of the usual hangouts - it hasn't really been much of a priority of late.

And it's just more of the same old same old in the political arena: A rich white old guy who has been flying around the country in his wife's jet (in violation of his own campaign finance law) has dared to call one of the other candidates an elitist. And the major media are too busy drinking his (free to them) alcohol and eating his (free to them) food to call him on his incredibly hypocritical horse hockey. Oh, yeah - he hid his own assets behind his wife's skirts, and is not releasing her tax returns to the public. Maybe that bellweather of the mass media Chris Matthews can gush over McClueless for another couple of months while ostensibly being propped up as the everyman face of the Democratic Party. Or maybe we can get some more 'helpful advice' for the Democratic Party from Karl Rove in the pages of a major media weekly.

Then there was a co-worker, supposedly objectively neutral politically, who decided that he would spout Republican't talking points to me in an email discussion of the current political climate. Here's his opening salvo:

Tom and I were having a spirited conversation about politics and I was having a very hard time articulating my political views. I came up with an analogy to help that I thought you all might enjoy.

For me voting for McCain or Obama/Clinton is a lot like choosing between going hunting with Dick Cheney and going for a ride in Ted Kennedy's car.

I hope that clears things up

Then, he started to call in his Republican't friends to pile on. For some strange reason, they seemed to get a bit upset when I asked them why they supported letting american soldiers rape their fellow american soldiers (because, of course, they all believe that the reports of american soldiers raping Iraqi teens are just propaganda operations, put out by Al Qaeda, that liberals are only too willing to believe [due to their being traitorous surrender monkeys who want to install sharia in the courts of america]*) - and were surprisingly unwilling to examine any evidence I presented in support of my assertions. Along with consistently and constantly misrepresenting liberal viewpoints, and consistently and constantly spewing Republican't ones. To hear this from one of the many ditto monkeys in the office is one thing. But, coming from someone who (up until this incident) I believed was more or less objectively neutral politically (as he has claimed to be for some time now), and whose opinions I respected, this type of behavior has only reinforced my opinion that I should refrain from challenging the (Republican't) status quo within my place of business.

So, yeah - things have not been a bed of rose petals for Your Humble Narrator of late. And I have had no desire to burden you, dear reader, with a litany of my woes - and no desire to blow faux sunshine that's not smiling upon me of late up your a$$. Thus the non-updates you haven't seen around here lately. I'm hoping the Habs will give me some sort of positive distraction Tomorrow night...

* - seriously. Some of them honestly believe that I should be taken into custody because of the things I say about Putsch and the Republican't Junta.

Posted by (: Tom :) at April 29, 2008 04:08 PM