I think it must be that at some point in everyone's life, in every generation, one must stop and say, "has the world gone entirely mad?" I had my moment yesterday.

It has become increasingly apparent to me, over the past weeks--months--years that our president is a tweaked-out, ex-frat-boy cokehead who has piggybacked on his family name for the past 50 years of his life to get wherever he wanted or needed to go, including the bathroom. I have never met the frat boy I would want as my president. Nor have I met the cokehead I'd want as my president, for that matter. Can we all think back to the types of people we know with such histories (i.e., problems) and decide whether it's a good idea to install as the Leader of the Free World someone whose brain has been deteriorated by constant substance abuse, sanctioned and encouraged by guys with nicknames like "Moose" and "Chubbanutz"?

The arrogance of Bush's appeal to the UN today is unfathomable. It is the equivalent of a small child who, having been told not to play in the mud or push other children, has gone out and done just that, then returns with hands dirtied and the cries of other children behind him to the parent whose orders were so blatantly disobeyed and says "Clean it up! Now!" while stomping his feet. The UN ought to administer a nasty spanking and some bed without dinner. They would be well within their boundaries to do so. As Annan said earlier this week, there SHOULD HAVE BEEN a second resolution. There should have been action taken on the part of the Security Council. There SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN unsanctioned US and its allies' military mobilization against a third world country whose dictator happened to be on our bad side for all of 5 minutes...we seem to have forgotten that Moammar Khadafi was equally reviled---if not moreso---all of 10 minutes ago. You wanna talk about this war on terror? Hussein has not been found guilty of direct terrorist tactics. Khadafi is ultimately responsible for the Lockerbie bombings. It appears to me that we have targeted the wrong "terrorist."

Oh, yeah, that war on terror thing?

WHERE IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?????

WHERE IS HE, YOU PIG-HEADED, HALF-WIT, INARTICULATE EXCUSE FOR A TEXAN??????

Man, I am eventually gonna come up with a song for you that goes along to the melody of "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch," only it will have a parental advisory warning on it, you stack of rotting stone-ground wheat flapjacks. You have my friends in a country that is half-way around the world from where Osama bin Laden is reported to be, you have al-Zarqawi running amuck and beheading people who are just over there to make a living, and you haven't found a single, god-loving thing: no WMDs, no al Qaeda, no biological weapons, nothing. You have done nothing more than stir up a hornet's nest of a country, with 24 million hornets. How much gold have you found? How much oil has pumped into your pocket at this point, about which you are eternally silent? What have you done? What have you problem solved? You miserable failure.

And if anyone wants to argue other issues, fine. I'm all about discussing abortion, gay marriage, the economy, unemployment, etc. etc.. If what you're more concerned about is whether Paul can marry Roderigo, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION. Yes, I'm a bleeding-heart liberal. But I don't think you have to be of any particular political persuasion to be anti-war, especially this war. No, none of the statements I've just made are qualified by anything more than my attention to the news, and they're not academic by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm angry, and I think the world's gone crazy, and I want everyone to vote like I do, and I love giving evil looks to people who drive cars with "W '04" on them. If I had my way, I'd print a million stickers that say "F W." Right now, I think the key issue everyone should focus on is the WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR. If you don't understand that people are being killed, and we're not actually supposed to be engaged in any sort of "war" formally, then you have had your head up your posterior for the past year and a half. If you support this war, because you think they're over there fighting for YOUR freedom, your head is so far up your posterior your nose is stuck in your ribcage. No one's fighting for YOUR freedom; your freedom was never compromised. They're fighting for the freedom of a bunch of people who don't even want them there anymore. I don't think it's fair that people I know and care about should have to be over there, playing target practice for the new generation of terrorists and insurgents who will undoubtedly be the footsoldiers in the upcoming civil war that will only add fuel to the fire of the Middle East's perpetually burning problem. Why are we involved? I haven't heard one good reason yet.