So, I don’t get the oportunity to blog much anymore. I plan on doing it a bit more once life and work have calmed down but since that is a month away I thought I’d add a video to make you think about guns and the West Wing. I’m all for letting people hunt, I’m just not in favor of an unrestricte right to bear a device that could take my life with the same amount of effort it requires a person to order from Amazon.
~Forth
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Hi. My name is Back, and I am braindead.
I think the level of mental restlessness associated with senioritis has surpassed the mark of normalcy and spiraled into a fury that subsequently burnt out the motor of my mind. Thus, my head is full of cold metal and stagnant oil and snapped belts–heavy and useless. I Twitter in class, have only enough care to write blogs–not the fiction my degree denotes, and cannot wrap my waning consciousness around anything besides Rock of Love Bus and Reno 911. Getting the laundry done is now my definition of a major success.
I wander around pouring people coffee and sweeping floors and spend all the money I don’t make on stuff I don’t need and waste too much time on my hair because when there’s nothing going on inside the head, the outside might as well look good.
If the glass is half empty, it is probably because it was once full of Jameson and the other half is now swirling about my belly and veins, daring you to try and have a political debate over THIS blog entry. Bwahaha.
Stay tuned for next week’s commentary on sunshine, kitties, rainbows, and children jump roping in fields of daisies.
**Back.
Awhile back I wrote a post praising Iowa for banning smoking in bars and restaurants and making fun of them a bit while making fun of Wisconsin as well for not following Iowa’s lead. I grew up on the border of Iowa and Illinois – Back grew up on the Iowa-Wisconsin border - and in my time I’ve done a good bit of making fun of Iowa, I mean, it’s IOWA?!? But they continue to astound me. Having seen Milk and really being taken by the story, I care a bit more about this subject then I might have prior.
Then I saw this exchange between Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee and thought Stewart nailed it for me. Seriously, watch it. I had intended to write a post on it but I never got around to it.
Then Iowa of all places goes and does it again. This story from their Senate majority leader about his 20 year old daughter says it all:
In my mind they didn’t legalize gay marriage so much as strike down a law that disenfranchised Iowa citizens. Unfortunately, polls seem to point to the topic as polarizing in Iowa – it’s polarizing everywhere – and while it seems like it is secure for 4 to 5 years it will really depend upon a stable Democratic majority. /sigh
~Forth
UPDATE: The Bearded Man linked this in his comment below but I love this scene (as he knows) and I love this show (he knows this, too).
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