what was i talking about?
Mood:  incredulous

tucker carlson is out... for like five minutes. cnn has removed him from crossfire (and might be losing that show along with him) and employment. but, he's already in talks to have a primetime show on msnbc, and i'm sure fox news is lined up right behind them. plus, apparently, he's already got a pbs show

of course, it's not like crossfire or carlson will be replaced by something ultimately constructive. this country is all about argument over debate, yelling over your opposition rather than finding a middle ground or an actual solution

the war in iraq is costing us something like $6 billion a month, supposedly, and there's no real way to win. reportedly, there are more insurgents than us troops now, so unless we openly start killing everyone, this can't end well unless we get out of the way

but, by all means, let's keep fighting people in their own homes, in their mosques, in their streets. let's keep torturing "enemy combatants" and forcing them to make false confessions. let's keep doing all the ruinous shit we're alrady doing

we all love the status quo, right? we're all so comfortable in our own lives that we have time to mourn laci peterson and bobbie jo stinnett and the victims of the tsunami, to worry about terri schiavo. we can worry about which guy the bachelorette picks, about which survivor outlasts, outwits and outplays...

"the world's stable now, people are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. they're well off, they're safe, they're never ill, they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age." - brave new world

except, it isn't the world that's stable. hell, it's not even all of this country. but, as long as we can all sit around, sedated by flouride and television and prescription drugs, pretending that our world is stable, what will we care about the rest of reality, about our neighbors, living with chronic or debilitating diseases, our neighbors living with abuse, our neighbors living on the street, our nieghbors making war with one another... until it makes the news and grabs our attention for a moment, and makes us think... at least until the next reality show is on, and can you believe they'll eat cow testicles for money? and, did you see what richard hatch did to sue hawk? and, hey, did you catch the latest episode of lost? are sayid and shannon going to get together? and, is rose's husband really alive? does that support the notion that all the cast is already dead and this is purgatory or hell or some such thing? and...

what was i talking about?

oh, right. all hail emperor bush. all grieve the tsunami victims. all hate the terrorists

bring on emmanuel goldstein and let's get on with this shit and stop sugarcoating it