Ann Coulter, 666, and American Idol....

I voted today. Yes, this morning I voted for Peter Camejo, a few other state office seekers, two propositions, and a few city initiatives. I then climbed into my car and sputtered on to work like I always do. Turning on the radio, I had a choice of listening to another KPFA report on Hurricane Katrina or checking out corporate America's favorite whore: National Public Radio. On "Morning Edition", correspondants were discussing today's elections, noting that the voter turnout in California was expected to be the lowest since 1946. Among other reasons, the most salient given was the voter burnout among Californians due to the special election held last year and the recount election before that.

Hmmm....

Sixty-four million people voted in the final episode of "American Idol." That number is higher than the voter turnout in the 2004 presidential election. But more people voted for "American Idol" than for the last presidential election. In fact, that show is so popular that the Today Show on NBC was regularly discussing the events on American Idol as they unfolded, along with the rest of the day's news. A rival network pimping Fox's programming! Speaking of whores, today, Matt Lauer interviewed the Queen Robo-Slut of Buchenwald Anne Coulter (whoever said 666 had no meaning or that NBC execs don't have a sense of humor?) Maybe it's me, but I thought Coulter looked stoned. Quite stoned...as in: "Matt! Watch out! There's a giant pink Eleanor Roosevelt Ham Sandwich standing in back of you!"

Of course, I think I give the Fox Network a little too much credit. Americans are idiots. I repeat: we Americans are a bunch of over entertained, self-indulgent, ignorant fools, which is why we have an Alpha Fool in the White House....the Prime Fool...the little fools' Golden Calf. I'm not saying that we voted for the him, but somehow he ended up there and that is all that matters. He belongs there; we earned it. Furthermore, Republican clowns surround him in what is a national three-ring circus. Outside of the big tent, there can be found a troop of sad-looking folks carrying buckets and shovels. They will need these buckets and shovels to pick up the remains of our government, economy, and national moral fiber after the clowns have all left town.

How did this happen?

However young I was back in the day, it still seems that the Reagan years were different, perhaps kinder, even when they appeared most of the time to be the absolute zenith of the absurd. Until W left Texas in 2000, the Reagan administration was the most scandal-ridden administration in history and nuclear war always seemed like it was always around the next corner. We carried on proxy wars in Central America, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Lebanon, and the Mesopotamia. And we invaded Granada, lest that rogue state of armed Granadianskies rampage across the heartland. ...MX missles, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Ollie North, crack cocaine, the Chicago Bears, Wall Street, Brian Wilson, supply side economics, Madonna, Alberto V05, Cabbage Patch Kids, junk bonds, S & Ls, CIA, Ewoks... Someone forgot to tell the Silent Majority that the Republicans were here to stay, and they wanted to suck their blood and eat their children. They called it Morning in America and when they finished, they stuck a guy named Mike into a tank and a guy named George into the White House before the decade ended. And then got off cheap when weary Democrats failed to bring any reasonable sense of closure to it all...otherwise known as "convictions."

Stop.....forward....play....

I shan't segue into a listing of all the pitfalls, tribulations, and numerous
reasons for this....just take my word that the Bush administration is already being called the worst in American history by many of the nation's leading historians. I wasn't sure that James Buchanan or Warren Harding could possibly be topped, but they were not only surpassed, but we would be better off if we had a glass of bourbon conducting our foreign policy. Things are so bad that the inevitable has happened: Bush is actually gaining a sympathy vote from many in the Democratic Party, such as Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman. Ain't nothin' like Democrats to step in and keep the Bush administration on track when even William F. Buckley Jr. is jumping ship.

So....get out there and vote. By the way, Sputnik says to vote for Phil Angelides, unless of course you are a Green like me. I have to say that Peter Camejo is one of the most charasmatic and inspiring people I've ever heard. he was amazing when I heard him speak next to that big box of rocks, Ralph Nader.

[note: if you haven't voted yet, you lost because the polls have just closed. I wrote most of this earlier when i was at work.]