I am still in my media blackout.  I decided last Wednesday that I would avoid all 'hard' news for two weeks so that my soul could start healing after the horrible events of Nov 2.

I have to say, I'm kind of liking this.  I don't have to frantically change channels whenever Bush or another of his ilk grace my television screen.  I'm not swearing under my breath while I read the newspaper, and I'm not quite so angry.  This must be what it's like to be a Red Stater.  No information is penetrating.  It's a very insulated, ignorant and blissful existence.  I do my thing and am not feeling angry/embarrassed/humilia ted/sad or any of those other horrid emotions in which this administration usually drowns me. 

I almost dread my return to consciousness and the search for truth. 

It's brutally apparent that I live among a shrinking and increasingly rare group of citizens who don't vote their pocketbooks, don't want to live in a theocracy, and eschew the temptation--and I'm telling you, it is a temptation--to ignore reality and fact in favor of this blissful ignorance.   Outside my family, I know FOUR PEOPLE who voted for that guy.  FOUR.  Wait--yeah, that's it.  FOUR.  I know OF a few others, but that's through others.  Everyone has that story.  It goes  like this:

"And then s/he said 'oh I voted for Bush,' and I was all 'WHAAAAT?!' I mean, who knew s/he was like THAT?"

What in hell is going on in the Red States?  Seriously.  What. Is. Going. On.  There are all sorts of little graphics going around showing things like the Red States were the slave states before the Civil War, that the avg. IQ in the Red States is, um, quite low, etc.

I'm not sure about the IQ assertion, but the geography doesn't lie.  We should cut the Red States and their apartheid leanings loose.  They'd be a bit screwed...no access to the Pacific.  No manufacturing facilities.  No tech sector--CA is a Blue State.  No foreign allies.  That's it.  Just cut 'em loose and let them live their narrow bigoted lives.

I'm just saying.

See, this is why I have to stay off the news.  It's so partisan and so awful and so...so...so...  Well, just eeew.  Eeeew.  I get very upset even thinking about it.  I will wean myself back onto news by reading London papers.  Those papers, at least, give me an idea about the WORLD.  Not just this joint. 

*sigh*

Ok.  Right.  Moving on....

I confess I've ca ught a bit of news.  I know that the Scott Peterson jury is having problems and may hang.  Surprise.  I've only sporadically followed that case and I predicted the jury would hang.  The prosecution's case isn't all that great, and now that the jury actually experimented with the boat, if he's convicted, there are pretty solid grounds for appeal.  I think Peterson's a dick.  I think he's probably a selfish, petty, wormy little pisser.  But that doesn't make him a murderer.  It doesn't prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt except that he's a wormy little shit.  That's not illegal.  It's not nice, but it's not a crime.

I also saw that Howard Dean might go after the chairmanship of the DNC.  To which I say BRAVO!!  Let's shake it UP people!

I admit to following the Arafat Death Watch.  According to Google news, he's dead.  Well, maybe he's dead.  He's not entirely alive, but it's too soon to call whether he's actually dead.  So we'll leave him in the mostly dead, but not totally column.

Did you know that YOU could buy Oprah's castoffs?  She's throwing stuff out and YOU could be the lucky one to OWN OPRAH'S TRASH!!!!  WHeee!

I'm going to go see "The Incredibles."  I need a laugh.

Keep the faith everyone--I mean, keep it to yourself and all, but keep it, ok?