Savage times

I haven't been able to access my beloved intarnets for days and days because of the lack of said on my mom's floor, where i'm living until escrow closes.

We're living in some savage fucking times right now. We've got fundamentalists torturing, rioting, and above all killing on a daily basis over nuances of religious difference and policy implementation. There's no difference between the radical rule of the Taliban and the religious/corporate right in America. They just wear different costumes, and of course the Taliban (literally, "Students") get their asses bombed from time to time by the Great Satan.

The environment is under assault in some truly stunning ways, from small things (relatively), like the Clean Water Act being potentially gutted soon, to large things, like an increase in the acidity of the oceans to levels not seens since the dinosaur die-off. Oh joy.

It's savage. It's brutal and disgusting.

Remember Ralph Nader? He got us President Bush. Thanks Ralph.

Well, the good-ish part is that it will end some day. I'll die, or the faction that backs Bush and his ilk will lose their grip on power. I'm guessing it will be largely through the collapse of the oil-based economy. There will be more violence.

Hang in there, and support research into other energy sources.