Romney Wins Debate

And now's as good a time as any to panic.  We're talking about running around in a tin foil hat, talking gibberish, panic.  If Romney wins we'll be forced to move to Romania, or Liechtenstein, or someplace where the women wear short skirts and the Republicans aren't running the country.  We like to think we're apolitical--all politicians are inveterate liars, and they have only one interest, and that's their self-interest--but when push comes to shove we loath and fear the Republicans over the Democrats, because they really do favor the rich and like wars and would just as soon see the poor get eaten by sharks as help them.  Why, we might actually be forced to cast a ballot in this atrocity, something we'll do holding our nose and with the feeling that we're sullying ourselves by choosing one inveterate scamp over another.  Then again, our ballot in DC means nothing anyway, so we might get away with hiding under our bed election day and praying that the American people--who have a knack for picking monsters and losers (they voted for George W. Bush not just once, but twice, for Christ's sake)--don't do the insane thing again and vote for Romney.  Lord help us if they do.  Obama is no great shakes--he'd have made our day if he'd tried Bush and Cheney for war crimes and torture, but no, he had to "look to the future"--but he's clearly the lesser of the two evils in this campaign.  If he loses, woe betide the American republic.  We'll have another rich man for President, and we know what rich men want.  To float all boats, by sinking the little ones.  God help us all.

Comments

[Martijn]

It's all lost... let's set up a colony of mild-mannered perverts somewhere in the woods where we can grow beans, build fires and skin skunks. And then we generate solar power to plug in our electric guitars and jam deep into the night, free of polls & politics. And later skinny dipping and artificially flavoured soda drinks. Civilisation has had its time... let's go naked!

(Funny that when I'm drunk, I write quite intelligently, sort of; but now that I'm as sober as a baby's bottom, and I write all crazy. Something is wrong.)

Fine piece again, Mike (I better stick to just praise).

[Jeffers]

Oh my god:

"I've voted to kill Big Bird in the past," Santorum said when asked about his position on the issue. "So, I have a record there that I have to disclose. That doesn't mean I don’t like Big Bird. I mean, you can kill things and still like them, maybe to eat them, I don’t know."

[Martijn]

What's on your mind?

(Evil Laughter)

[mordantmouth]

"he'd have made our day if he'd tried Bush and Cheney for war crimes and torture"
Holy Shit - thank god someone else finally said this, I was beginning to feel like the only one. Maybe that's because toiling a work with a staggering array of ....people.

Oh, I'm back BTW. Trying to get my head around the trauma of being married.
Which I will never forgive any of you for letting me do.