splenetic

am i ever in a weird mood this week

not outwardly bad really
but events in the world around me have conspired to leave me
a little pissed off inside

last weekend i went to an organizing meeting for the obama
campaign
and despite being a little unnerved
by the missionary fervor of the whole thing
i was enthused
that there was something i could do to help

a week passes though
and the full weight of the nation's stupidity
lands on me with not so much a thud but a smush
like the fat ass of a suburban houston suv pilot
brought to bear on a misplaced bit of popcorn chicken

if i have to hear sarah palin vomit that folksy
bullshit
'no thanks'
to that goddamn bridge one more time
i'm going to teach wolves to shoot humans from planes
[admit it you like the mental image]

the whole pig lipstick
controversy
is slightly less annoying because it's the kind of thing
that will at least be forgotten and people who are swayed by that
are really irretrievably stupid

it's the familiar pattern of bald-faced lies
repeated until they are as good as true
too many people are either too dumb or too
indifferent
to sort it out
so at the end of the day
mccain is still a maverick
and not a crass
mealy-mouthed
flip-flopper
who had his chance to throw the emperor down the shaft
in 2004
and stood idly by while bush cheney rove et al
fried john kerry with lightning
and palin
is some kind of anticorruption crusader
who armwrestles ted stevens
with her baby on one arm
a gun on the other
praying
on skates

it's all bullshit
and if obama is going to win it's going to be a
dave roberts stealing second kind of thing
and require a lot of luck
so i guess that answers my question

it probably is still worth the effort

in other news it's september
the kids are back in school
riding the wrong way down bike lanes
people in cars turn the asshole up to eleven
i nearly got run over while running last night

the revs have sucked lately

and i'm working on the most mind-numbing thing you can possibly imagine

and despite all that i guess i'm
paradoxically
in a good mood

until i stop to think