It's raining cats and dogs. We've been having crazy weather this summer. Really super holy shit hot and humid with a good dose of heavy thunderstorms and a cherry on top. I can't say I've been loving it. We have gotten a couple of great beach weekends here and there, but we've also had a lot of thunder and lightning and muggy, overcast skies. The thunder has been more intense this year than I ever remember it being since I moved here. It cracks and crashes so loud that it makes me jump. Sounds like fireworks are going off in my living room. And then it pours. And then it is deathly quiet. And then again the sky begins to rumble...
It's supposed to clear up in time for a weekend, so that's the good news. I don't know when this turned into a goddamn weather blog, but that seems to be about the most interesting thing that's going on at this very minute.
Everybody knows what's going on in the news. British "Islamo-fascist" terrorists. Always good news for Bush and Blair. Babies being asked to sip their sippy cups to prove that it's juice or formula and not "peroxide-based explosive material." Is this really the world we live in? What the hell IS going on?
I get a hundred petitions in my email inbox every day and I sign almost all of them. Save the baby seals. Stop offshore drilling. Prevent abortion from being banned. Stop preventing gay people from marrying. Stop stoning women to death in the middle east. Stop Wal-Mart. Stop Exxon-Mobil. Stop the torture of innocent animals for product testing. Stop destroying the planet. Stop the genocide in Darfur. Stop the torture and murder of practitioners of falun gong in China. Stop short-changing schools and libraries while spending millions on war. Stop building nuclear weapons. Stop appointing assholes to the U.N. and the A.G. and the S.C. and anywhere else that Bush can find to give another asshole a job.
But there's no petition to stop people from trying to commit mass murder. I'm really glad these people didn't succeed with their big, shitty plan.
Seriously. What the hell is wrong with people?
Posted by Maria at August 10, 2006 09:05 PM | TrackBack