mounting incredulity
I'm frankly still reeling from the republican candidate for president's choice for running mate (and from her acceptance speech which, like a flaming wreck on the side of the road, I couldn't stop myself from watching). Now I have a visceral response every time I see her picture, or even hear her name. It's not just disgust, it's more like horror. I can't even fully appreciate the satire of her, because the majority of it mocks her for being just a dumb, pretty face-- which plays right into her party's scheme of crying foul and labeling any attacks on her sexist. The lengths the men in power will go to stay in power continues to astonish me. As does the willingness of so many people to be duped.
On a completely unrelated topic (or, you know, you can file this under "vague sense of impending doom"), now Russia is sending some warships to Venezuela. I'm not saying I'm opposed to other world powers lessening American global influence, but the display of military might (or whatever it is) seems troubling.
Maybe it's just the change of season, but the optimism I felt at the start of summer, this hope I had that the world might actually be moving in a better direction, has completely dissipated and been replaced by a powerful cynicism and certainty that some kind of crisis or disaster is imminent.
I think I'd better go get some donuts to cheer myself.
On a completely unrelated topic (or, you know, you can file this under "vague sense of impending doom"), now Russia is sending some warships to Venezuela. I'm not saying I'm opposed to other world powers lessening American global influence, but the display of military might (or whatever it is) seems troubling.
Maybe it's just the change of season, but the optimism I felt at the start of summer, this hope I had that the world might actually be moving in a better direction, has completely dissipated and been replaced by a powerful cynicism and certainty that some kind of crisis or disaster is imminent.
I think I'd better go get some donuts to cheer myself.