In the beginning

was the word, or many words, full of sound and fury, signifying dismay - justified, unjustified, who can say - at the state of a world in which people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter hold such sway over the minds of so many. Including, sadly, one's parents. One's own parents, who gobble that garbage down like Neuhaus chocolates. It all feels like a really bad 70s horror flick sometimes, or this dream I had when I was five and everyone around me started, one by one, turning into these really awful violent, hateful lion/tiger creatures stealthily pursuing me through the comfort of my own home, bloodthirsty, out for the kill, waiting for me around every corner. Anyway - that's what this is for - to blow off steam - to come up with ridiculous equivalencies - to get mad as hell and to not take it anymore - to rail against idiocies of all stripes - and then whatever - maybe I'll finally cure myself of the politics bug - maybe I'll start fictionalizing my life in a blog site - maybe I'll huggermugger at will - movie reviews, pointless opinions about this and that, subjects in any case far away from left vs. right, blue state vs. red state (isn't it odd that red=conservative AND communist? I think there's something there really)... anything has to be better for the head, in the end than politics, yikes... but there it is - the Bush-induced bug in the head. I have to thank him really - before him, I hadn't thought much about it at all. Sometimes it takes something just horribly bad to go wrong to make you appreciate the way things really should be and work hard to make sure they get back to being that way...