Random Acts of Hopelessness

I’ve been struggling to fudge out a decent I ♥ Huckabees review; the review keeps turning out as messy as the movie... which might be appropriate, but that don’t make it any good.

Heck, that there just might be a Huckabees review.

I’m going to shove that to the side at the moment... I’m having trouble effectively stringing any sentences together, lately.  Not a good thing.  I wonder how much I could get for my soul on eBay?

I will say this:  If you’re lucky enough to be living near a theater showing the film Tarnation, get thee there quickly.  It’s really tough, really honest, really rewarding stuff.

Finally saw the second presidential debate, and I must say it was fun watching real American people ask the prez things we’ve been dying to see him try to answer... like, “Will you ever admit that you’ve done something wrong?”  And that guy who asked Bush to justify the $600 billion in non-Afghan/Iraq spending...  And a blast watching Bush defend his environmental record.  Bless them Missourians.

Bushie was yelling an awful lot, no?  He’s also trying to start a new drinking game:  Pound one back every time he contemptuously says “liberal.”  Beats his old “9-11” one.  Despite what everyone thinks, though, he doesn’t damn himself with his public speaking; though snooty edumacated types are likely to mock him for saying things like “It’s all over the Internets!” (What, did Al Gore invent another one?), he can effectively work a room.  For all of Kerry’s overly-researched earnestness, Bush is the only one that got the audience to laugh (with, not at), and that counts for a lot.

John Kerry, please stop saying that we’re going to “hunt down and kill” the terrorists.  It’s so Dukakis-in-a-tank, and makes W. look downright compassionate (and reserved, if not conservative) when he says that “the best weapon against terrorism is freedom.” 

I’m not even going to watch the third debate.  It’s become overkill.  Kerry will scream about “my plan” – one he won’t be able to implement b/c he’ll (if elected) be facing a ‘publican-controlled House and Senate; Bush’ll point “tax & spend!” at the top of his lungs, all the while charging America’s credit card as if he’s eyeing frequent flier miles.

Kerry’s got my Anybody But Bush vote, barring some pledge to put Carrot Top in some cabinet position.  If you’ve waited this long and your vote hinges on what John Kerry thinks about a gay marriage amendment (Which, you self-defeating conservative fools, would immortalize the idea of gay marriage... because everyone will call it The Gay Marriage Amendment...), then you seriously need to reprioritize.

A couple things I hope get said:

• To the question of whether or not the world is a better place without Hussein in power:  “Is the world a better place without those 1,000+ Americans and the thousands of dead Iraqis?”
• When Bush talks of Kerry’s missed votes, could someone bring up the cynical practice of pushing last-minute legislation while your opponent is out campaigning?
• For that matter, how can Bush promise future initiatives?  He’s had four years with a mostly compliant legislature; there’s zero excuse for him not having done everything he’s wanted to do, already.  You think that, as a lame duck, he’ll be more attentive to your needs?  Good luck with that.
• I would like one, if not both, of the candidates to admit that they don’t know what OB-GYN stands for, and that they only keep mentioning it in the hopes that chicks’ll dig ‘em.

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