Step away from the stupid

Keith Olbermann sure does get on his high horse, don't he? I guess we all do.

Maybe we all need to step down from our saddles for a bit. Let's stop talking up all this assassination talk, what da'ya say? Some pyscho's going to see it as an opportunity and do something tragic. And that goes for Keith Olbermann as much as for Hillary Clinton.

Does anyone else giggle a little whenever Keith says, "Good night and good luck," at the end of each segment, these days?

This is why employing heat instead of light is such a stupid way to conduct liberal democratic politics. Because it generally solves little and creates more problems than it honestly or effectively addresses.

The last 8 years should be plenty evidence of that fact.

If we weren't all being so fuckin' stupid, that is. And kinda blind and utterly unable to acknowledge our own failures.

Darkness before the dawn, I think.

Why? Because we can't keep fuckin' up forever. Eventually we'll want to stop eating all the consequences.

We're morons, not hopeless.

Keith Olbermann. Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. John McCain. George Will. E.J. Dionne. Andrew Sullivan. Michael Kinsley. Joe Nye. Francis Fukuyama.

And God knows I'm a fuckin' dipshit.

Whole fuckin' lot of us. A bunch of fuckin' morons.

Not hopeless. Not bad people. But there's plenty enough stupid to go around for everyone.

Power and its pursuit makes people stupid, I'm convinced.

Lord Acton had it half right. Power makes people stupid. And absolute power makes people really fuckin' stupid.

Wisdom for the ages.

In the meantime, as always, we have plenty of time to wisen up.

It's just a fuckin' shame that it always takes so long and so many people get hurt, in the meantime.

Let's not make this one of those times, what d'ya say?

In the meantime, let's ante up and step away from the stupid, why don't we?

Because God knows we've got quite the surplus as it is.

Bullshitting (or not) our children

I'm not even voting for Obama, at this point, and I know this is a good sign.

Lieberman's Step-Son: I'm Voting for Obama

Although I have to say that the more McCain's buddies in the press and the Senator himself open their mouths, the better President Obama sounds to me.

If he would say that he would stick with Iraq, I would swallow hard on his regressive economic policies and vote for the Senator from Illinois. God knows it would be nice to have a gay-friendly President for once.

One day, perhaps I can vote for a President who actually means it when he says that America should be a free country.

But, in the meantime, it's nice to see that the poseurs who behave otherwise can't fool the people who matter most:

Their children.

Joe Lieberman and other good people in the world need to take a long, hard look at why their children are not persuaded by their examples or their thoughts about politics and life. Because it says something about what too many people of Hillary Clinton's generation do not understand about how the world has changed and the directions in which it is moving that makes it very difficult to believe that people of this mindset can really lead anyone anywhere.

If John McCain would embrace gays and lesbians and not condescend them and if he would consider foreign policy options that are outside of his comfort zone and that of too many conservatives in Washington, it would be very difficult for me to vote against him.

But it is this disconnect that people like McCain and Clinton have with people of my generation and just people different from them and that they don't understand very well, generally, that is their biggest liability, right now.

And Barack Obama's capacity to understand and reach out does, indeed, make him a much more attractive candidate, all and all.

Perhaps conservatives will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in this election. Perhaps they deserve to.

Or perhaps they, too, can do better.

Perhaps we can all do better this election.

If we were going to do it, these are the two candidates who were most likely.

Here's to hoping for something better this campaign.

Weezer's Red Album

I can't think of a song that quite captures the attitude of this generation better.



I'mma do the things
That I wanna do
I ain't got a thing
To prove to you
I'll eat my candy
With the pork and beans
Excuse my manners
If I make a scene
I ain't gonna wear
The clothes that you like
I'm finally dandy
With the me inside
One look in the mirror
And I'm tickled pink
I don't give a hoot
About what you think

And, in addition to the failed international security policies he advocates, this is why Charles Krauthammer can fuck off.

It's nice to see Weezer with something more to say than how they'd like to live in Beverly Hills.

This is why I originally loved these boys.

Enjoy.