I was really getting into the groove of writing every day, but then something happened. It happens every time. For some unknown reason, some force in the universe, some mystical cosmical wind blows in every few years and I can't help myself. I get focused. I get nearsighted and suddenly I realize, oh my God, I'm addicted to politics again.
It is so sad. I can't go a day without reading the Washington Post (online). I check my blogs. I read books (Al Gore and Barack Obama this month). I sneer at Republicans and debate random strangers. And all for what? So I can get depressed and bore my friends and my husband? Aaron and I have this ongoing debate about the importance or lack thereof of being informed about current events. I'm winning the debate, naturally, because I pull out quotes like this bad boy from Thomas Jefferson: "A nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be." How can you argue? I mean, I'm sure you can, but it is a pretty kick ass quote.
Anyway, the cycle is the same. I get obsessed, I get excited, I get self-righteous, I get angry, I get disallusioned, I get depressed, and then I get over it. Here's to being over it (or so I say until tomorrow when Bush does something outrageous).
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Do we need to have an intervention? And I must disagree with the quote's bad-assedness. I think it's a rule that if a quote rhymes, it is a joke.
rhyming is an age-old memory device and has been cast in an ill-favored light by modern poetry. hey, i just remembered something: your song lyrics rhymed, and mine rarely did. just saying.. :)
ouch...
but my song lyrics said NOTHING about the grand state of affairs of our world. just the state of my affairs, which were neither grand nor memorable.
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