quick musings while at work

Everyone in this town is telling the same joke: They asked President Bush what he thinks of Roe versus Wade and he said he didn’t care how they got out of New Orleans.

Have we ever had such incompetent governance?

I’m sure that the Repubs will tell me how great things are under this “wartime” president, but think about it… have they done anything other than say the things that the furthest right Republicans want to hear? I mean, they do ONE thing really well, and that’s run for office. Scientists resign from positions at the EPA, FDA and even Treasury because the Bush White House cooks the books and doesn’t respect facts when the facts are inconsistent with their theory. We went to war to find the weapons of mass destruction WE GAVE THEM and then we can’t find them. We invaded Iraq despite the fact that 19 of the 20 WTC terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. Why didn’t we invade Canada? It’s closer! And, what have we accomplished in Iraq besides 2,000 U.S. deaths, 15,000 casualties for us alone and tens of thousands of Iraqi dead and wounded? Does it look like we’re winning the war against terrorism or that we’ve stirred up a hornet’s nest that will plague us with a thousand stings for generations to come? Heard from Afghanistan recently? Well, they had elections and millions voted and millions didn’t and Osama bin Laudin is still walking around somewhere. My x-wife and I helped get our son out of the French Quarter, but thanks to no help from the feds, who left him there in a freefire zone without food, water, electricity or telephone service along with thousands who were sweltering in the convention center and Superdome. That whole thing was FUBAR from start to finish and now the Republicans want to have an “investigation” composed entirely of Bush’s cronies from the right wing of the House Republican Party. Whoosh!!! I can feel the heat of the supercharged whitewash flying overhead as I write. Wanna guess how things would be if Clinton were in the White House? Anyway, have they gotten anything right in six years? The stock market is just about exactly where it was when Bush took office and that’s only because we’ve inflated the hell out of our dollar with more debt than in the entire history before these guys took office (they started with a surplus, but that didn’t last long). I just find myself humming “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen all the time.

musical note

G Sharp. Heard this great protest song by a guy I think is named “Babyface”. It’s about wondering what it’s like when the President talks to God. Check it out.

saw the son this a.m.

My son, Jack, met me for coffee this a.m. at the Red Cup, but I didn’t have time to spend much time with him because I had to get to the office for God knows what reason. He’s looking good and my friends say he made them laugh by regaling them with stories of waiting tables at Flip’s in the 1980s.