Strange news in the papers these days:
Corrupt African leaders buying homes in Malibu, normally we wouldn’t let them in, but Exxon and Hess have big investments in Equitorial Guinea, so the State Department turns a blind eye. Whole populations living in absolute squalor and this fucker has bought four Ferraris and a jet plane.
Ra, ra, Sarah Palin wrote a book, who gives a shit? Who knew she could even write…
Conservative rage over health care continues, while they bemoan the socialist assault on individual liberties, the insurance companies jack up their rates, anticipating the coming regulations, yessur, they’ll squeeze every dollar they can out of sick America while they still got the chance…
22 Republicans and 20 Democrats had statements that were submitted in to the Congressional record ghostwritten by the goddamn health insurance industry. Who are these people? Have they no spine whatsoever? Do they not care enough about one of the most crucial issues in American history to form a goddamn opinion themselves? Cowards.
Still no international deal on climate change.
Obama appoints a high profile member of the Pesticide industry as chief Agricultural Negotiator as US Trade Representative. Yes, yes, change you can believe in.
50 million Americans are struggling to eat. Still people are starving & dying the world over.
California state universities are on the verge of collapse.
Government fucked the bailout of AIG, but the same pasty, graybeard Suits who orchestrated the whole debacle are getting up on TV talking about unemployment, inflation, economic growth, trying to divinate the behavior of the economy as if they were astrologers reading the constellations. Fools. The economy is a fickle beast, and it will vaporize us all in a monstrous, chaotic, apocalyptic eruption.
Saddest of all–and I think we all stop and wonder at the truly strange cruelty of the world when we hear this story–after one week, five year-old Shaniya found lifeless in the bush north of Fayetteville, NC, her mother and one other arrested for kidnapping and human trafficking. What brings people to these things?
Heard the updates on NPR day after day, in the evening coming home from work or school, and I said little prayers hoping maybe she would turn up still alive, maybe there was still a chance, but no. Not this time. And I don’t know why, you hear every day on the news someone’s been murdered or died so unfortunately, but this one got to me in a very particular way, really it made my chest go tight and I had trouble breathing and all the sudden there are tears on the steering wheel and I’ve got to pull over, the person behind me must think I’ve gone mad…something about how this little girl had nothing even to do with the madness of the world, the awful and arbitrary meanness of people, she didn’t even ask to be born, she was just here and then all the sudden she falls victim to the awful temper of chance and has her life taken before its even been lived…
I know the world is not always full of tears and anger, that there are things to celebrate and there are good people, but sometimes the darkness is overwhelming.
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