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| some thoughts on politics... |
| 03.30.04 (5:50 pm) [edit] |
let me first say that I can't really get excited about either of our apparent choices for president.
what really drives me crazy is how seriously everyone seems to be about their hypocrisies.
Bush speaks as if he were a relatively unintelligent angel attempting to pronounce the Holy Message to a group of kindergarten kids. Not so much that he has a halo, just that awful tone of moral certitude in his voice. I mean, really... 30 years ago this guy would have clubbed me over the head for a cold one, and now he's got this Vision for America that seems relatively unconcerned with how America feels about that image.
In the other corner, there's a guy who makes outlandish promises (3 months warning before you get fired, for instance... or today's 'i'll do something about oil prices' as if he's got a seat on the OPEC board we don't know about...) and uses the sort of rhetoric more appropriate to exorcists than democrats. Hey, if Bush must go, that's fine by me. He scares the hell out of me. But is it really a good idea to pick someone [i]just because he can defeat Bush[/i]? Is anyone listening to what this guy is saying?
oooooo... i get so mad... why, i oughta....
wait... hypocrisy. that's where i started.
The thing that really burns me is that anyone thinks it's gonna make a damn bit of difference whether Kerry or Bush ends up in the White House in 2005. These guys are not going to make things better... at best they'll just make different things worse. Americans have been looking to the next President to make things better for 212 years, and look where that has gotten us!
Let's play a quick game. Write down the five things that you love most about living in America.* Quickly! (Oh, come on... i mean the real stuff!)
My examples:
1) My girlfriend
2) Beer
3) Freedom
4) Yellowstone National Park
5) Computers
(Note: I originally had 2 & 3 reversed, but then realized that if I didn't have Freedom, I would want even more beer to drown my pain...)
Now, please take a few minutes and write down the names of the Presidents who have created, guaranteed, or are otherwise responsible for, each of the five things.
See?!
In my list, barring some unknown skeletons in my girlfriend's closet and Al Gore's assertion that he created the internet, the only thing I can thank a President for is Yellowstone National Park (thanks, Teddy!).
Now I can hear you screaming "Freedom!" like some sort of reject from the Braveheart cast... but let's be honest here. Which President do we thank for Freedom? Which one of them hasn't tried to limit, marginalize or take advantage of Freedom for his own benefit? Please.. read your history! Anyone who really wants to be President of the United States should be automatically disqualified on account of an absurdly constipated ego!
So if we could all please ease back from this ridiculous rhetoric that says "our guy is right, and your guy is the devil", from these shouting matches that only scream hypocrisy... maybe we could focus on things that matter.
Like surviving our own excesses and filth on a planet that is rapidly filling up with people and rapidly running out of oil....
Like treating the humans around us with a little more respect...
Like trying to heal our own hearts and minds rather than trying to force our "fixes" on our neighbors...
Like delicious, cold beer.
[*disclaimer: I absolutely love America. I've lived and traveled in enough other countries to recognize that we have it very good here. Plus we have access to a bewildering variety of good brews!]
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| mmmmm... beer. |
| 03.30.04 (5:09 pm) [edit] |
Look, I don't know how you feel about beer so I'm just gonna take it from the top here.
I freakin' love beer. Good beer, that is. Of course, the definition of "good beer" changes from time to time. Sometimes is German doublebock... sometimes it's whatever you hand me, as long as its cold.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a drunk. Alcoholic? Maybe. But not a drunk. Really. I swear!
I seem to be, in general, on the side of the hops.
Those of you who drink beer that is actually [b]darker[/b] than your urine will know what I mean. Hops give beer the sort of full, fruity, nutty flavor that you encounter in an I.P.A. (India Pale Ale), for example.
My IPA pick of the week: Stone Ruination IPA.
Why? Great hoppy flavor, very strong undertones, generally bright edge. (To be honest, I'm not sure what those descriptions mean... they kinda sound like beer-snobbery phrases, dontcha think?) But I do mean that the Stone Ruination IPA is a brilliant beer.
Try it! You'll like it!
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| good intentions |
| 03.30.04 (4:58 pm) [edit] |
What the world needs now is... love, sweet love? er.. wait. no.
clarity.
That is what I meant.
I am constantly astounded at the things people (including me) say and do. So I thought this might be a good place to think out loud. Try to find some clarity.
Oh, yeah... and to talk about beer.
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