Go ahead. Make the big step & admit it.
Sugar and vinegar are both valuable in this big world. So-o-o-?

That which you choose to label as mere wheel-spinning may not be as silly & useless as you perhaps would like to imagine.

It’s hard to go thru life pretending to be superior to all you survey.

Enjoy life more. Pay fwd. Won’t kill ‘ya.

Smell a flower once in awhile. Even thistles are beautiful, and enrich the world if given a chance. Just don’t yank on ‘em without cause & forethought without expecting to encounter a thorn or 3. Oh.. and those thistles are covered with bees and wasps this time of year. Careful. Complex world out there – dammit?

((( peace )))

I just glance at the list of the usual suspects and can generally tell what the lies and coverups of the week will be, especially if that buck-toothed b**ch is trotted out on her Feragamos across the several panels to tell her prepackaged lies. It isn’t even that she does it so well – it’s that some brain trust decided that since she’s a woman and black they won’t attack her for the blatant fucking liar she is. And when she’s on three of ‘em – expect big, biiiiig lies.

John from El Norte at his 172

but I hope others are still out there and will add their 2%

Okay, it may seem to you an utter waste, for people to spend a seemingly inordinate amount of time and attention on listening to and analyzing material they openly categorize as noxious, stupid, arrogant & self-serving,inane, boring, a waste of airtime, ya-dahXx-zzzzzz..

Nevertheless, even if YOU don’t seem to ‘get it’, there IS a point to doing all that, when you have a collection of minds such as those who tend to gravitate toward blogs like FDL.

I say !BRAVO! and a hearty !THANKS! to those with the stomach to plow through the stuff and the brains to analyze what they glean from it. These folks do NOT just sit there, dumbstruck by the spew from the tube. However,an awful lot of other folks do just that – maybe not consciously, but it’s well documented that most people use tv as their main news-source.

Therefore, what many unwary viewers are being ’spoon-fed’ by the media informs, and MISinforms, their opinions and actions, their decisions how or even whether to vote.

FDL bloggers, bless them, are among the most tireless, dedicated, and well-informed patriots you’ll find anywhere – spreading the word, sounding the alarm, calling mainstream media to task when they fail to do their jobs.

They are the ones gathering facts that fortify meaningful questions with which the rest of the populace can skewer laggard or crooked politicians, show their appreciation for those who DO CARE about their mission to serve the public good, and decide how to cast their vote. These viewer/bloggers perform a critical service for the rest of the country, by helping people know the difference between important facts and contorted, dangerous fiction.

In short, if more people back before the 2000 election had been paying attention, and doing what FDLers choose to do independently and together, today’s world might very well be in a lot better shape than it is right now. Alas, I would give anything that a certain nekkidemperor merely had responsibility over clearing his backyard brush pile, rather than strategizing the future of our whole world.

I’ll allow you one thing. If you meant to urge us all not to vegetate in front of the tube in our jammies for the rest of our lives, that’s your perogative. Rest assured, I truly don’t think that’s a danger among FDL fans.

my head exploding regularly.

Alas, no. She’s busy trying like hell to do nothing while impressing world leaders with her shoes and her “uniqueness”.

blech.

Species coexist in our house unbelievaby well. Our late pet rat (old age, not dog-related), Scabbers, and our rotten lab mix, Brownie, used to romp and play all over the house. The rat used to chase the dog into a corner, then Brownie would use his muzzle to flip the rat out of the way and go dashing off for more chase again. Tooooo funny.

So I ask myself now: does this really make one a warrior? Is this a life?? Is it effective??? (The last time I looked, the corporate authoritarians were stronger than ever. ) It’s a lot easier than planting a garden or shutting down the government, I’ll grant you that.

I submit that going without television for say, an entire year at least, i.e. removing oneself from the influence of the political/consumer marketing machine, will do more to change society and the world than any amount of analysis. Just quit. Just flat-out QUIT! You wouldn’t believe the change in your perspective. It’s actually quite possible to emigrate from Hell and still live in North America. Surely this is the ultimate political act, removing oneself from the line of fire, demonstrating with one’s life that one isn’t to be counted in the herd…

The beauty is, you don’t even have to pack.