Upside Down And Inside Out
What does one focus on when the world has become a whirling dervish?
I have no less than ten pieces of disjointed writing on the go. It’s not that I can’t focus on anything but more that I am focused on too much.
CNN, HNN, CNBC, BBC, NBC, ABC, CBC: all of these stations and countless others are cranking out the news, by the minute, by the hour, by the day, re-cap, re-cap, re-cap, and very little of the news is good. Sometimes I overdose on reality. Sometimes I shut off my TV for a week at a time for the solace of “not knowing.” How much can we stomach while understanding that damn near all of it is out of our hands?
There are bright spots on the horizon. In six short days George Walker Bush will leave the Whitehouse, forever! I am delighted. I don’t claim to know that President Elect Barack Obama will fix the planet; it’s a tall order. I do know it will be pretty hard to fuck things up more than Bush has. Maybe Carrot Top or Ann Coulter could make matters worse, other than that I think the world is in a better place. I certainly hope I’m right.
I Wonder What Lies Ahead?
Maybe Proposition 8 (prop-hate) will get overturned; there’s still hope.
Maybe “Focus On The Family” will stop teaching gay and transgender kids that they are ill. Maybe they will stop their “Programs” to convert queers and do away with the “Homosexual Agenda.”
Maybe there is one gay Osmond that will have the courage to come out of the closet and be tolerated by Donny – as he tolerates all of his “gay best friends”. That’s Heartwarming – REALLY, it is! From my big gay heart to you and your purple (the gay colour) socks, I say, “THANK YOU, DONNIE OSMOND! Thank you for tolerating myself and all other subhuman against-God queers! You’re a prince among men!”
Maybe Elizabeth Hasselbeck will leave “The View” and stop educating those of us who have been on the planet LONGER and are secure in the knowledge that she’s full of shit.
Maybe crap manufactured music will come to an end and I won’t have to stomach one more 16-year-old, going on 30, pop diva, butcher the art of song. Maybe then “Celebrity Rehab” will be canceled, as there will be no more cracked-out, 18-year-old, pop divas to cast.
Maybe JUST maybe these things will come to pass and “the world will live as one”.
Or maybe… I’ll just cancel my cable and the world will seem like a better place.
Still – I remain hopeful.
01/14/2009 at 8:04 pm
Pam, you have no idea how much I needed this tonight. How much I needed to know that someone else out there is hopeful in the face of all the crap when so many others are not!!
I am watching Obama’s acceptance speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jll5baCAaQU
To remind myself why I am hopeful
01/14/2009 at 9:00 pm
I’m tired of the word HOPE. It’s a new year. We need a new word.
Good things are on the way. I just KNOW it! How could they not be, you and I are ON IT?!
01/14/2009 at 9:03 pm
And, does Ann Coulter have that Abe Lincoln disease? I mean I know she is sick in the head but is something else wrong with her, too? She’s frightening.
SOLUTIONS is a good word.
01/14/2009 at 9:07 pm
SOLUTIONS! Good choice of word. Lets go with that. Re: Coulter – she is one off the rails woman! Thank God she’s Conservative!
01/14/2009 at 11:12 pm
I feel that whole “unable to focus” thing, too. I mean, it took me forever to write the one halfway decent thing I posted, and it’s still in desperate need of editing. More than anything, though, I’d like to see you give Elizabeth Hassleback (or whatever her name is) a piece of your mind. God, she’s a jerk.
02/19/2009 at 10:53 pm
Elizabeth Hasselbeck
Can be a real real piece of work about the economy,poltics and The war.
She’s a republican and doesn’t really care about Obama being president.
She can fly off the handle sometimes.
I’m glad Rosie O Donnell left the View So she wouldn’t have to put up with Hasselbeck.
She can be full of herself and she thinks she’s miss princess.
05/14/2009 at 3:58 am
Thanks for good post