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July 29, 2004
Conventional
I've got a midnight deadline to get today's post in, but I'm stuck watching Comedy Central discussing the Democratic Convention. The interminably inattentive Colin Quinn's on, with his usual dense team of stand-ups, discussing the convention. They're yelling at him, at each other. It's tiresome.
Jon Stewart was somewhat impressive, however. He made fun of the numerous pundits who blasted Al Sharpton's twenty-minute speech. I can't stand Al Sharpton, but truly, from what I saw, they do protest too much. This time he was pretty much on the money.
I'm over this election. I can't imagine that Bush will get reelected, but I've become so jaded that I can't see how Kerry's election will make much more than a cursory difference in the corporate takeover of America. Maybe the top 5%ers won't get richer quite as fast, but they will get richer. Still, I'm going to vote, if only to help point out to the Bush voters, that selfish or misguided 30% of the population who will comprise just about 48% of votes cast, we are damn sick and tired of our environment being stomped on, of the 5%ers draining our pockets to fill their coffers for gasoline and fuel, of insane moralists trying to convince the rest of the nation that gay marriage somehow affects them, of close to 1,000 Americans dying in the Bush Family personal vendetta in the Middle East. We're sick of 2% of the male population being incarcerated, primarily due to drugs.
There's actually someone in my neighborhood that has a Bush 2004 bumper sticker on his or her car. I normally carry a baggie around when I walk Banjo in the morning, but there've been times that I just pretend I don't see it when he decides to go on that particular yard...
I can be petty sometimes.
Posted by Bastique at July 29, 2004 11:23 PM