What to Say?
Grr.

I've been having trouble finding compelling things to write about, and yet I'm more disgusted than ever with the state of our nation and planet. I just feel like everything in the news is bad, so there's not much point in singling anything out. I'm just not surprised anymore.

Apparently Bush doesn't know where Wales is. Unsurprised.

According to the NYT, a White House official repeatedly edited climate reports in ways that play down links between emissions and global warming. Guess what? He used to be a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. Unsurprised.

More Iraq carnage. Unsurprised.

Some people have been giving newly-unmasked "Deep Throat" Mark Felt a hard time. And by "people" I speak very loosely, as I am including Robert Novak. Oh, and G. Gordon Liddy, Pat Buchanan...what's wrong with this picture?

Sigh. There's so much more but frankly I just don't have the energy. Guess I'll go back to rambling about my personal life. As if I do anything in the summer! I am going to the Grand Canyon next week for those of you who don't know. Yay.

I'm just hoping that this is the worst it's going to get. We could do without, say, a war in Iran. But you never know -- badness tends to grow exponentially. I'm still optimistic about the long, long term. These guys just might do themselves in with their own scheming, and if the American people finally wake up, it could be hard for the Republican Party to recover. As Gandalf said, "Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes."

I can only repeat my November 7 entry:

It is starting to be better. In church today, we were told that no story, either of victory or defeat, is final. That despite our frustration, our path still lies before us, unaltered, and we are never done. That victory often breeds hate, because the losers dwell in bitterness, but that we must cling to love, though it be unfashionable. That we can learn to look at those who disagree with us, even those who would hurt us, and see the same human hearts, beating, the same wind filling all our lungs.

"The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Those were the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Before him, they belonged to Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister. He was speaking in hope of the abolition of slavery. Thinking on those times, how can we not see the truth of those words? How can we not see that the liberal voices of the world are the ones that still echo the truths of history?


If real life were like Star Wars, I'd like to think that we're still mid-saga, with a few more Episodes to go to set things right. Then again, if life were like Star Wars...well I won't get into that.

Keep hope alive!