535ad Minding the Dark 2008 MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008 Thank the Divine Holiday infatuation— first chick who truly digs colonial numismatics and she wisps away like a county fair act. Before the New Year’s touching-of-lips of course. At least not as bad as the one last year who left the party exactly eighteen minutes before midnight to “telephone friends.” So was more than ready to warm a January weekend in the company of a newbie via a kinky networking site (four guys for every woman, and half those women are looking for other women— don’t be a guy :). Only trouble is, this one cancels with a toothache. Oh well she has a Chihuahua. Tonight back from VMax’s TV mystery marathon ready to down tequila from NYE party while reliving Woody Allen’s Manhattan. (First saw it when it opened downtown at one of the theaters before they passed— what a night that screening! Didn’t have a date but envied the guys who did. How do you find women who dig Woody, much less any as gorgeous as those?) Every gal met these days says she hates Woody, yet it wasn’t much better before the thing with Mia’s adoptee. It’s like all the women were just looking for an excuse to hate Allen guilt-free when the latter conveniently descends. Woody kicks but improves with a sweetie to cuddle and giggle with and no, another guy doesn’t do it. Not for me anyway. Picasso supposedly treated women like you-know-what yet no one says they can’t look at or appreciate Guernica because of his personal life. Ask Bill or Hillory. If only we could all be gay. Yet my half-uncle was gay and hung himself (that was long before our current National-Republicanist administration, the fighting of which might just have saved him). Sigh. At least he did it in a movie studio.
Thank the unitheist divine for friends like Wes and Charlie, who are rearing three young kids, invite me over without heat or hot water on a Saturday night, split a jug of bourbon likely purchased on credit, kick up snacks better than most evening meals, and still manage to get a riff track started at two in the morning. Raiders no less.
There’s been talk of impeaching the President. Rather let’s impeach the President and Vice-President together, their removal to take effect upon the inauguration of a new elected administration in January of 2009, affirming the action as entirely a statement of principle, not a power play. The high crimes charged would be war-related. As a nation we’re in a bit of a bind. Traditionally we’ve been on the side of morality— not attacking others unless we’re attacked, going to war only against nations that have attacked, invaded, or conquered other nations. Under the current administration though we ourselves have become the bad guys. The current President’s father attacked Iraq only after they invaded Kuwait, repelling the occupiers and following U.N. mandate. While in the course of this we invaded Iraq, we did not conquer. Rather we preventing them from conquest and then withdrew. Under the son all that is reversed. The initiative in Afghanistan was justifiable because of the al-Qaeda 9/11 attack on us. But did it justify the conquest of the entire nation? We’ll leave that to historians to decide. It may or may not have been a mistake in judgement, but at worst it was an honest mistake, probably not an impeachable offense. Iraq is an entirely different issue. The leadership there had nothing to do with 9/11, and though totalitarian and ruthless (like how many other governments in the world) was not a real threat to us. By then we had control of their airspace and were capable of easily repelling any attempted aggression on their part. Our unmitigated attack on Iraq destroyed much of the country, the ensuing war resulting directly or indirectly in the deaths of half a million to a million people, military and civilian. Besides the enormous physical damage, a large percentage of the population fled, and infrastructure worsened. Our atrocities (bombing, invasion, and torture) have had profound and long-term effects, and have been a propaganda boom for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, which have as a result recruited and expanded multifold. Our policies, rather than increasing national security, have greatly weakened it, at the additional cost of up to around a trillion dollars.
Double impeachment would serve as a statement of repudiation to the world, and accelerate the process of rebuilding our reputation as a nation of liberty and peace.
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