If we compared our lives to those of the rich we'd die of heartbreak

That's a quote from a mcclatchey piece shared in google reader about
wealth disparity in china, but it applies here too. The Chinese
solution is to ban billboards with words like luxury in them, so the
poor can't see how the rich spend their money. Our politicians'
solution is to never ever talk about the class warfare that's
happening right now. They are part of the warmongering upper class,
after all. It would be imprudent to give away their strategy. But we
still know the war is on. We've been economic fodder for the last 30
years.

wednesday morning growl fest

So it's April and in this region we average maybe 2 inches of snow per
year, but it fucking snowed last night just north of here. So it's
freezing which makes me extra hurty. And I have to go to yet another
fucking interview for this damn apartment. I think I'd have an easier
time getting into the cia. Fucking fuck. And I'm super pmsy, which
means I sobbed over an email this morning. Fuck. Let's share the
misery. How awful is your Wednesday?

The first rule of democracy is...

Michele's rule of oligarchy, which is basically this: any democratic
system will eventually turn into oligarchy as elites create rules and
systems that keep them elite. Now think about how many of our law
makers, judges, and government executives come from the elite class
and tell me if we live in a democracy or an oligarchy? Tell me why,
when there's something like 1 job for every 32 job seekers, our
congress and president are focused on deficit reduction and austerity
(making more job seekers through government lay offs) and not job
creation? Tell me why it's important that we only 'fight for
democracy' in oil rich countries?
I really do think we'd be more democratic if we pulled social security
numbers out of a hat instead of holding sham elections that merely
'rotate the elite' as an old poly sci proff was fond of saying.

Wouldn't it be funny

and I mean actually belly laugh ha ha funny, not funny weird funny, if
the best thing to happen to non-legacy parties is Barack Obama?
Even if it's not- I'M OUT. Decidedly, unequivocably, can't be guilted,
harrased or abused back in, out. Now what the fuckity fuck am I Gonna
do with all the free time I'll have during this election season since
I won't need to be an unpaid gate keeper for the kleptocracy's faux
voting matters plan? Suggestions?

Hold on to yer panties ladies, it's re-election season!

Oh yay, multiple spammy emails from the Obama campaign. I can't
fucking wait. Once you get over the idea that Obama in particular and
the Democratic party in general are the liberal/left party and realize
they're just better used car salesman for the kleptocracy, watching
the Obama fan base twist every negative, Bush-like action Obama takes
into some kinda '12 dimensional chess' positive is actually kinda
funny (as long as you can disconect from the real world implications
of those policies, like torture, imperialsm, disemployment, poverty,
sexism and on and on). I am going to start calling our dear leader
'Barack HOOVER Obama' since it turns out that my 2008 primary
predictions about his economic prowess we not, sadly, hyperbole.

Those numbers seem funny

Blue Lyon has a great post up called 'employed but not getting by'
about living wages,etc. In it she uses the most recent census
calculation for the percentage of people who live in poverty, 14.6% is
the amount I believe. But (and I'm not criticizing Blue Lyon's
research, but the census numbers) I'm pretty sure that we were at 17%
in 2007 or earlier. So either my brain is fuzzy (entirely possible) or
at the same exact time that we have record levels of disemployment,
shrinking wages and what little work is available is part-time, we've
also managed to cut poverty by almost 3%. That's a fucking
miracle.That might even be better than Clinton's record on poverty
amelioration. (As I type this I'm also remembering an 11.5% or 35
million people being floated about that time period, which means a 3%
increase or 10 million new members of the lowest class).

Dear BBC:

All the British actors who can pull off a convincing American accent
are not working for you. They are on our tv shows, like Hugh Laurie,
or in our movies, like Kate Winslet. Every single time an actor does
an American accent in a BBC I want to puncture my eardrums. Either
hire better dialect coaches or hire actual Americans. And I know it
goes both ways. I think I speak for a huge swath of the American
public when I say express how very sorry we are for inflicting Gwenyth
Paltrow and he awfulness on you.
Sincerely,RQ