American Lemming

Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 08:21:38 PM PST
Three reasons not to pay attention to anything Britney Spears ever says or does:

If this latest round of weirdness means she’s genuinely sick then this necessarily makes the ongoing coverage of what is obviously some kind of mental illness genuinely sicker and you, for following it but probably pretending to others that you’re not folowing it, sicker yet.
See also: depraved, see also: pathetic, see also: ghoulish

If she’s doing it for attention this necessarily makes her smarter than both the press and far more smarter than you, which I would hope you find very troubling. I do. Know why? You are the one that gets to decide who will become the next leader of the free world. The press has an excuse: you. Celebrities don’t matter even one bit unless they not only decide to do something important but actually carry through with it and accomplish it. Until then, stop. Just stop. It doesn’t matter who’s dating whom, not even a bit. Put your little magazines away. Forever. And get a life.

Yes sir, were it up to me? My news tv? Celebrity free. Betcher ass. Can somebody (anybody) explain to me why a smart fella with such a smart show like Olbermann and his ‘Countdown’ has to routinely devote his number one story to infotainment news crap? I betcha it drives him crazy. Prob’ly makes him puke in his mouth every time he mentions her. At least, I hope that’s the case.

Because here’s the thing: America sleeps. Still. So many important things and issues with huge ramifications, so little time and what’s the one thing the fiends in charge of hurtling your country ever forward towards the largest faceplant in history know beyond a shadow of a doubt? That you are the most easily misdirected populace in history. And they’re absolutely right. And a full three quarters of you (this is me being generous) are almost completely asleep to anything beyond entertainment, work and getting drunk.

Hate to say it but even the enlightened amongst you are not paying full attention, which means I'm talking to you, Kossacks.

Anybody reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally genuinely impressed with either of the main Dem candidates platforms on either Health Care or even the Environment? Really? Because these are your people. You are fighting tooth and nail to get these people into office. Is what they’re proposing acceptable to you? Is it enough? Should health care be ‘affordable’ or should it be free? Because I’ll tell you something and I know it to be true: what’s affordable now goes up in cost over time, especially when the Repubbies get their hands on it and in no time at all your right back where you started. Which is going bankrupt because you got sick. Or hurt. Affordable? Are you kidding me?

Lemme ask you this (as the rants keep on coming):Is it enough to create more jobs in the Green sector or do you have to actively take on CO2 emissions, drastically transform public transit and the way each and every citizen in the First World now lives their lives? And not tomorrow, not in 2050 or 2025 but, as the Pope oughta be sayin' but ain't, Right Fucking Now! Why don’t you ask Al Gore what he thinks about 2050 or 2025? He’ll tell you (in vastly grander terms) that you and anybody that talks like that is patently full of shit. And he’d be right.

As for the war? How on earth did Hillary get this far? Has she or has she not been every bit John McCain’s equal in cheerleading this wrongheaded, gawdawful Iraq war until even as late as 2005? 2005! That’s a lot of years to be wrong! How did this happen? How is a hawk still in it for the Dems, how did she ever get a lead in the first place, let alone keep it? What the hell is going on here? You want to put a hawk in? Reeeeeeally? You don’t think hawkishness has been a big part of the problem? Not only for the last eight years but like the last sixty? You don't think another approach is, like, maybe a good idea? You still going to be championing unilateral preemptive striking when China's the big superpower? Somehow I don't think so.

This has been a rant. I realize that now and I apologize. I realize that it started with Britney and ended with Hillary and I also realize that makes me look like some kind of misogynist. I know some of you’ll be pissed that I have trashed and continue to trash Hillary for her consistently wrong stance on both the ongoing Iraq War and the still potentially impending clusterfuck in Iran but what can I do? I’m anti-war and she's very clearly not and I challenge anybody to deonnstrate otherwise or you can just quit yer bellyachin'. Can't do it? Knew you couldn't. I think it's a mistake to vote for her or even consider voting for her. To hell with it. I love women. I think they’re our real hope. Because man has had all the opportunity in the world to get this thing right and we have routinely screwed the pooch in every way possible, time and time again. I said it before; the second Oprah Winfrey decides to run for president I will gladly sing her praises from the highest mountaintops.

In the meantime, it’s incumbent upon Americans to wake up, pay attention to what’s important and hold your candidate’s feet to the fire, be that candidate the white chick or the black dude. You want free health care and you want not only change but massive change to fight Global Climate Abuse and you want it not now, not fifty years from now but Right Fucking Now and not only that, you want the corporate stranglehold of the citizenry to be banished once and for all. That last one sound impossible? Repeal one law and it’s done. Didja know that? One law. Look it up.

All for now. I can only hope I didn't make anybody puke in their mouth.