This election is the choice between upright and fully reclined, in coach. Unless there's tanks in the streets and gas costs $10/gal, I don't care. At this point I'm wondering if the slacktards are right and I should just sit this vote out.

I remember once watching child fall off the side of a bus in Africa and get seriously injured or killed. No one stopped no one really cared that much. That kind of comes with the territory of hanging off the side of the bus. Airlines are pretty much like that now. You could be on fire and the rest of us are standing in line like cattle and don't care. Have a nice burn.

The airlines win. We don't give a shit what happens and they don't pretend anymore to deliver anything resembling even crappy service straight out of the third world.

Next week and the week after we'll be treated to endless newsburps about 'the travel season' and some chubby news witch will be out there in front of the terminal talking to people who were delayed, kicked off, tasered. Who cares? I hope they all go down in flames.

Weather? Sure let's call it weather. Why not.

the ninny nanners, Baptists, liberals (yes them too!), soccer mommies were happy to be paid and unpaid lobbyists on behalf of South Carolina and Virgina (which had successful lotteries) to stop it in the name of Jayzus, the Children and the Great White Liberal Micromanaging Mother God in the sky. Now it turns out the people who pushed through the lottery were a bunch of crooks, hald of them have already gone to jail. The lottery is failing mostly because in the Bible Belt you want your liquor, whores and card games out of site. The state gets their cut purportedly for the 'schools' which no one believes. But the devils bargain was that they outlawed video poker. It's only partway about the money - it's also about that mean American Calvinist streak to punish people and call it holy.

You liberal progressive asshole bloggers not only WILL fix everything. You already have. Silly me. I keep forgetting that one.

Do any of you honestly think that come, oh, the end of January 2009 all your problems will melt away like ice cream? I know and understand that it's comforting to pinheads like you to simply call me names. That's fine. But don't come back later scratching your heads and wondering why 2010 looks like 2009 looks like 2012 looks like 2011 looks like........

Because it will. We (you more properly) lead us to believe that a year ago YOU had a new mandate. All this shit was gonna change. Look out.....

How did that work out for you? You got a flying car that runs on chocolate? I don't. There's still a war and if anything your white knights escalated it. So let's not pretend I'm the problem and when the Alpha Democrat is elected it will be a new America. No one can be that stupid. Well maybe you can.

But please, go back to calling me names that's worked out fantastically well for you so far. It's absolute fucking genius. There are no mandates.

Can't fix it, can't move them. No point at all really. Global Warming or not makes little difference when so much of the country is at sea level.

Governance in America checked out years ago. I doubt even a real crisis means anything anymore. Here I am in a southern state, we're down to 80 days of water left and no one at the local or state level seems bothered enough to even suggest doing something. Well something that takes 5 years to complete and a few hundred million dollars has been suggested but that's it. At the national level it's just more of the same writ large. They're not going to fix or change anything. Even if we rounded up the GOP, tossed them in concentration camps and shot them all. It would make no difference. We're are where we are because doing anything 'feels' too hard. To complicated, too expensive, to aggravating. Sorry. Now I know you here at Salon want to turn the election into Iraq, nothing but Iraq and the hell with any domestic issues. But we're not leaving Iraq no matter if it's any of the top three Dem candidates and absolutely if the GOP wins. We're in Iraq for the very very long haul.

And in 2012 with 4 years of a Dem President you know feel is a traitor you'll make so much noise that the GOP will win in 2012 and of course we'll in Iraq for another 4 years after that.

In case you haven't been watching the US military is in about 70 countries. All we're arguing about is which ones are quiet and which ones have violent flare ups. But in either case we're staying put.

Having 150 million poor people living at sea level in a hurricane zone either. About 1/3rd of the country (the size of Iowa) floods each year.

At least it's a human woman and not a dog or marmoset though. Because THAT would be weird.

this is not creative writing class and your post literally makes no sense. Are you 15, stupid or under/over medicated?

Kiss noise to you too.

This year I spent about 400 hrs building things with Habitat for Humanity. But I bet your blogging is all up in that denim shirted man of the people horseshit.

How's Zabar's today?

Wow, haven't seen that one before. Golly.

Be still my heart. Dear Lord, I never heard of that one before.