Fall Colors in a Bottle

I’m so depressed by politics that I find myself energized creatively. It’s deflection. If I can make something beautiful or tasty, I won’t think so much about how the world has become a playground for the worst sort of people.

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G7

It’s hard to keep from just burying my head under the covers and waiting for everything to go away. But I don’t think that’s going to work; the nasty people in the world are simply not going to allow us to escape unmolested; in fact molesting everyone who is not them is their objective.

They are sickening and disgusting.

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The Syria Stupidpocalypse

There was a great moment in Woody Allen’s Bananas, in which the US is intervening in a CIA-sponsored “revolution” in a central american “banana republic” – the viewpoint switches to a bunch of US Army commandos in a C-130 getting ready to parachute down to overthrow the government: “The CIA has guys on the other side, so no matter who wins we’re on the winning side.”

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