stuff that's pissing me off

Oh, and right, ask the American People to open up their wallets so that the government can save face while continuing to send its money to the killing fields. Seems people got all generous without you asking. And hell, what do I pay taxes for? Not for this crazy-ass war.

Or maybe they could, say, tone down the goddamn inauguration and redirect some of that money--ever think of that?

I'm tired of all of the newspaper articles with proud parents talking about how much money their children raised with a lemonade stand for "people they don't even know"--sometimes even with christian, jewish, and muslim children working together. Could these be the very same people who don't want group homes in their entire MLA, much less their street?

And the first day back at school, the undergrads are raising money by selling green ribbons (because "green is the color of peace") and, my personal favorite, bottled water, because, like, y'know, the people there don't have clean water to drink. Do they know that panhandling is illegal in Chapel Hill? Not to mention that suddenly all of the gay kiddies are wearing these huge safety pins with rainbow pony beads on their backpacks. They weren't there last semester. I've seen some other combinations, too. Affiliational safety pins: how middle school.

What about the revival of that awful Band Aid song? I only heard it on BBC News, which was critiquing it as being rather ethnocentric. No shit! Do they even know it's christmas? Well, if they do, I'm sure they don't give a flying fuck, because first off, I'm sure most of the people in, say, Darfur-or-pick-a-troubled-region have other things to worry about, like not getting raped or having their families murdered, and two, Africa is not a majority christian country, duh, and how did christianity get there? Western missionaries, of course!

But I think that something good could come out of this whole thing: a new way to incorporate "tsunami" into our everyday lives. For example, when we were traveling last week I told K. that I needed to get to the hotel soon because I was "about to have an ass tsunami."

Another thing that's bugging me is that Blink! book by Malcolm Gladwell, because he seems to be all over public radio and web news the last couple of weeks. I'm tired of hearing about him.

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