a few quick notes before bed...

School's going into its third week, already I feel sleep deprived and kind of cranky most of the time. It's like I've always just read an article about the bush administration now.

The L train is doing it's usual suck job and any time the weather's bad, it's even worse. All during the week it rained and dreared and I waited underground for the train. It was always too early.

And at the end of the week they gave me an extra prep and threw in some sophomores.

Anyway, whatever. During the week I spent a lot of time thinking about the Saw series of movies and the Final Destination series of movie and about how in a culture where we enjoy torture so much, of course the president, heading into election day electioneering, would scrap for a more legal standing for torture. Sadly, I think it will work just enough, and while he might not get the torture, he and his pals can point and preemptively say, "I told you so". They'll talk about how Iraq is on the upswing, after all, they've stopped counting all the bodies now, another nod in its obtuseness to Vietnam which this all faintly echoes politically, and just enough people in just enough states will leave America's Top Model and Lost to swing the vote safely far enough so that the Republicans will be able to enjoy the next couple years of power.

I've given up on Iraq, we're going to continue a slow bleed there until somebody sane comes around, not a John Kerry, not a Hillary Clinton, definately not a Rudy G. or John McCain, but somebody who actually has a sense of the world larger than his or her political ambitions. So for a long time.

But it saddens me that the powers of the Courts will continue to erode, that the rights of all will be sacrificed to the convenience of the few and that evil lobbyists will continue to act proxy in our sham of democracy.

Not that voting (d)emocrat would change that...it's just easy to be depressed after having made the mistake of reading a transcript of the bush speech that interrupted the bush group hug of a tv movie from 9/11(/06).

I would argue that the democrats should push that idea, that voting Republican is voting for all the naked classism, not just some, and that the bastards continue to make K Street the new Main Street...but it would probably actually help the Freedofascists, and as incompetent as they are at actually running anything, they know well enough how to deliver the vote come election day.

Who does all this hurt though? There's still bad television, several million dating sites on the internet, playstation and other et ceteras that even if it eventually comes knocking, you won't hear it.

Bush was talking about how we don't kill the innocent the way the terrorists do, I was reading this and thinking perhaps one of the wire services or newspapers reporting the speech might bring up civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, might bring up all kinds of things really, but none did.

The Cubs won again today, it's looking more and more likely they'll avoid 100 losses. And Rich Hill threw a complete game, the first one by a Cub all year. Ah, my team! Yesterday, with the Dodgers only a half game up, Maddux threw seven innings of one hit ball up against the Padres, the team right behind them. 331 wins.