Feeling the "Ignorant Xenophobic Suburban NeoCons are Fucking Up Everything Blues" real hard right now. Keep seeing these mass emails, online news "comment" threads, and hearing other baffling ramblings from stupid white people that are reaffirming my suspicions that this country might be well beyond saving. How many sick fucks will still spread lies that Barack Obama is a muslim, wasn't born in the U.S., won't say the "Pledge of Allegiance," etc. just to further their self-serving agenda? We're seeing the same puke-faced bullshit here in Minnesota from scum like Norm Coleman (running a filthy campaign against Al Franken, just like he ran against Paul Wellstone, before his conveniently-timed death) and Michelle Bachmann (a crazy, stupid, dangerous Jesus head representing Minnesota in the House of Representatives). In Michigan, the GOP is planning to use foreclosure listings to challenge registered voters, and there are a ton of other voter caging/suppression schemes they're cooking up in "battleground" states like Wisconsin and Florida. I'm starting to feel really powerless, in the midst of all this Wal-Mart disease, and it's making me sick with anger.

The 38-year-old words of Kris Kristofferson sum it up real well:

If you waste your time a-talkin' to the people who don't listen,
To the things that you are sayin', who do you think's gonna hear?
And if you should die explainin' how the things that they complain about,
Are things they could be changin', who do you think's gonna care?

There were other lonely singers in a world turned deaf and blind,
Who were crucified for what they tried to show.
And their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time.
'Cos the truth remains that no-one wants to know.