Miscellany

[digitaldiscipline]

From the "People Suck" department:
People occasionally wonder why I (or anyone) should bother to vote - it's to counterbalance these fucks (and also this woman). That's right, folks - these people have just as much voice in our government as you do. Hell, if they live in a state where the congresscritter/electoral-vote-to-resident ratio is sufficiently high, they have a bigger one. Doesn't that just give you a warm, fuzzy feeling? Maybe in the sub-cockles, but more probably in the colon.

(h/t to flemco for the shooters, and ginnyland for the drooling moron)

*flips channel*

From the "Amusing Yahoo! Horoscope" department:
Your recent accomplishment was really something to be proud of, so why are you being so modest about it? If you are afraid of making other people jealous, forget it. You can't live your life according to how you may or may not make someone else feel. So if you feel like shouting 'I'm a rock star!' from the rooftops, do it! No one is going to argue with you, given the platinum album evidence. And if someone gets green with envy, that's their problem, not yours.

Comments

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

I hear the opening of a Denis Leary song playing in the background...

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Folks, I'd like to sing you a song.

About me. About you.

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised it has taken this long for shooters to emerge. I honestly hope Obama wins the job, and then survives it. I'll bet you a bright shiny quarter somebody takes a shot at him within the next 4 years if he is elected. There are too many racist idiots left in this country.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling I'd owe you those two bits.

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

I won't give it that long. I'll bet before the general election.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Look, I know that the cautionary tales of the Jukes and the Kallikaks are fictional. However, that doesn't mean that these people have to keep offering confirmation of the cliche. Fetal alcohol syndrome shows up first in the face, doesn't it?

[ladyheatherlly.livejournal.com]

Agreed. People can bitch and moan all they like about how much the government sucks, voting never changes anything and how all politicians are basically the same. But if nobody even tried to make things better, I don't want to even think about how bad things COULD be.

Problem is, people want perfection. It's amazing how many people refuse to vote for someone who shares MOST of their policies, over one or two that they don't. I understand idealists to an extent in this capacity, but it's just not practical. Politicians aren't miracle workers that are supposed to make every single thing better, but there's a hell of a lot of difference between how things can be affected by someone you

mostly

agree with and someone you

rarely

do.

I've been a huge Obama supporter since he announced his candidacy and I have to say, I'm terrified of the same thing. Unfortunately in this country, it's always the Kennedys and the Kings that suffer such fates, never the Bushes or the Nixons. Not that I would wish that on anyone but still, it's very unfair.

As for the Denis Leary reference, remember when he went on that whole rant about drugs later on in that performance?

"every time you hear about some famous guy overdosing on drugs, it's always some really talented guy. It's always like Len Bias, or Janis Joplin, or Jimi Hendrix, or John Belushi. You know what I mean!? The people you wanna have overdose on drugs never would! Like Motley Crue would never fucking overdose man, never! You could put them in a room with two tons of crack. They come out a half an hour later, "Rock on man!" "Shit, they're still alive. Fuck! They're probably gonna make another double-live album now, God dammit!"

Ironic that you brought him up, because that is a perfect fucking analogy for my point above. heh

[ruefullyamused.livejournal.com]

...that's their problem, not yours.

That rather sums up most of what I've known of ya ;)