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Carnage and vicious explosions, smoldering piles of car parts and Regina Spektor standing over my mangled corpse fucking my eye socket.
That's pretty much the crux of the somewhat awesome, generaly retarded personal narrative I've been attempting to write about my adventures in the kitchen and my almost completely uninteresting domestic life, which I fully intended to title "Here Comes Tomorrow", because ripping off my greatest influences means almost nothing to me anymore.
The other facet was the politics-music blog, "Headkickers". The only politics blog worth reading is Wonkette, but for some reason I thought I should write something. Thankfuly the elections were a very predictable disaster, so it ended up not meaning anything anyway.
As for the elections:
As Grover Norquist so aptly put it, emerging from the vortex of hate and fear that they appear to keep him in, "Don't throttle your mistress".
This was the moment to finish off the Republicans in districts that were trending Democratic, and to establish a new base of seats that the Democrats will hold for probably the next twenty years. Other than in Connecticut, that didn't happen (and even then the failure to get biggest of the fish, Chris Shays). The New York and New Hampshire pickups were neat, but John Sweeney only lost his seat for choking out his wife, and Tom Reynolds survived despite doing everything but fluffing Mark Foley. The missed chance at nailing Reynolds and Deborah Pryce also saved two important GOP leadership members who should have been fucking toast.
In the only competitive race in Washington state, Dave Reichert, despite being possibly clinicaly retarded and with nothing to show for his years of public service except being the guy who was in charge when the nearly twenty year old Green River Killer case ended, held his seat despite a strong, borderline hot, Democratic challenger in an already Democratic district.
Seven Democratic pickups in the House are all but guranteed to switch back to the Republicans in two years, mostly because the defeated incumbent was a degenerate, a thief, or worse. Sadly, whoever runs to retake Don Sherwood's seat in Pennsylvania probably has learned the political lessons about kicking in his mistresses teeth, which proved Sherwood's downfall in his 60% Republican district.
The Senate was nearly as bad. Jim Webb is a senator today because George Allen did everything but snatch black children up in the night and suck the marrow out of their bones, and Conrad Burns was so corrupt/fucking crazy he had primary challengers who were simply betting that he would be indicted before the general election. Both men lost by less than 1% of the vote. That's not to take anything away from John Tester or Webb, but Jesus. What if they had been running against normal human beings with morals and basic human decency?
Does that mean that the election was a total failure? No. Mostly because I think Nancy Pelosi as a national leader is going to be like watching a young, blood thirsty Mike Tyson, and for at least the next year she's going to pound her opposition to jelly. Also reading message boards where hordes of the politicaly obssesed, each nourishing personal "V for Vendetta" fantasies, grinds their teeth and weeps bitter tears at the betrayal of the new majority being more interested in improving the economic well being of the the poorest people in the country rather than an immediate rush to impeachment.
"WHAT WAS THE POINT IN VOTING IF THE CHIMP-IN-CHIEF IS GOING TO STILL BE THE PRESIDENT? DOENS'T ANYONE CARE ABOUT THE ATTROCITIES OF THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY??????"
That's pretty much the crux of the somewhat awesome, generaly retarded personal narrative I've been attempting to write about my adventures in the kitchen and my almost completely uninteresting domestic life, which I fully intended to title "Here Comes Tomorrow", because ripping off my greatest influences means almost nothing to me anymore.
The other facet was the politics-music blog, "Headkickers". The only politics blog worth reading is Wonkette, but for some reason I thought I should write something. Thankfuly the elections were a very predictable disaster, so it ended up not meaning anything anyway.
As for the elections:
As Grover Norquist so aptly put it, emerging from the vortex of hate and fear that they appear to keep him in, "Don't throttle your mistress".
This was the moment to finish off the Republicans in districts that were trending Democratic, and to establish a new base of seats that the Democrats will hold for probably the next twenty years. Other than in Connecticut, that didn't happen (and even then the failure to get biggest of the fish, Chris Shays). The New York and New Hampshire pickups were neat, but John Sweeney only lost his seat for choking out his wife, and Tom Reynolds survived despite doing everything but fluffing Mark Foley. The missed chance at nailing Reynolds and Deborah Pryce also saved two important GOP leadership members who should have been fucking toast.
In the only competitive race in Washington state, Dave Reichert, despite being possibly clinicaly retarded and with nothing to show for his years of public service except being the guy who was in charge when the nearly twenty year old Green River Killer case ended, held his seat despite a strong, borderline hot, Democratic challenger in an already Democratic district.
Seven Democratic pickups in the House are all but guranteed to switch back to the Republicans in two years, mostly because the defeated incumbent was a degenerate, a thief, or worse. Sadly, whoever runs to retake Don Sherwood's seat in Pennsylvania probably has learned the political lessons about kicking in his mistresses teeth, which proved Sherwood's downfall in his 60% Republican district.
The Senate was nearly as bad. Jim Webb is a senator today because George Allen did everything but snatch black children up in the night and suck the marrow out of their bones, and Conrad Burns was so corrupt/fucking crazy he had primary challengers who were simply betting that he would be indicted before the general election. Both men lost by less than 1% of the vote. That's not to take anything away from John Tester or Webb, but Jesus. What if they had been running against normal human beings with morals and basic human decency?
Does that mean that the election was a total failure? No. Mostly because I think Nancy Pelosi as a national leader is going to be like watching a young, blood thirsty Mike Tyson, and for at least the next year she's going to pound her opposition to jelly. Also reading message boards where hordes of the politicaly obssesed, each nourishing personal "V for Vendetta" fantasies, grinds their teeth and weeps bitter tears at the betrayal of the new majority being more interested in improving the economic well being of the the poorest people in the country rather than an immediate rush to impeachment.
"WHAT WAS THE POINT IN VOTING IF THE CHIMP-IN-CHIEF IS GOING TO STILL BE THE PRESIDENT? DOENS'T ANYONE CARE ABOUT THE ATTROCITIES OF THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY??????"