damn nation
Well, looks like we are doomed. Besides the obvious, such as prolonged murder and destruction, and many unmarried gay couples, and many unwanted babies breathing their first breaths, we will probably watch as whatever is left of our natural areas will disappear. Or rather, turn into wood chips and living room tables. And the new oil fields will produce some more black gold to help power our vehicles. Oh glorious progress, how you shine brightest when you beat down nature with your metal pipe of modern convinience!
Koizumi, the Japanese president, gave our renewed president an election gift: a lifted ban on american beef. Now both Japanese and Americans can enjoy diseased meat products! Koizumi decided that his people need to relish all things American--processed cheese and starbucks coffee were apparently not enough--now, mad cow disease takes center stage in the introduction of the hottest new american culture!
I feel compelled to sing the star spangled banner, but only the part about the "twilight's last gleaming"... it reminds me of the last gleam of democracy our nation once had, when all of us liberals were vote-craving hopefuls, hoping in vain that our youth would actually get out there and remind us all what democracy was about. In turns out that the same number of youths voted in this election as in 2000. So much for the "sudden awakening" of the drowsy and unmotivated american youth. Will they ever decide to stand up and speak their mind, or have video games and MTV drained whatever was left of their minds already? Not to mention processed cheese, starbucks coffee and the blossoming of mad cow disease in their little brains.
Koizumi, the Japanese president, gave our renewed president an election gift: a lifted ban on american beef. Now both Japanese and Americans can enjoy diseased meat products! Koizumi decided that his people need to relish all things American--processed cheese and starbucks coffee were apparently not enough--now, mad cow disease takes center stage in the introduction of the hottest new american culture!
I feel compelled to sing the star spangled banner, but only the part about the "twilight's last gleaming"... it reminds me of the last gleam of democracy our nation once had, when all of us liberals were vote-craving hopefuls, hoping in vain that our youth would actually get out there and remind us all what democracy was about. In turns out that the same number of youths voted in this election as in 2000. So much for the "sudden awakening" of the drowsy and unmotivated american youth. Will they ever decide to stand up and speak their mind, or have video games and MTV drained whatever was left of their minds already? Not to mention processed cheese, starbucks coffee and the blossoming of mad cow disease in their little brains.
posted by mdove at 11:45 PM
2 Comments:
I'd like to correct your statement that the same number of youths voted in this election as in 2000. A blogger I trust (Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo.com) says:
"Young voters showed up at a far higher level than they did four years ago. But everyone else did too. And so the proportion of the electorate made up by the youth vote did not increase. At least not dramatically -- look at the specific numbers for details. For the Democrats, this was clearly not a good thing. But that doesn't mean that young voters didn't turn out in record proportions."
--Interrupting Cow
i stand corrected and ashamed that popular media blinded me so.
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