I can't stop myself, it's a new religion

How many times can the term "devastated" be used before one must wonder what has happened to all the thesauruses in the world?  Even Microsoft Word came up with "destroy, demolish, ravage, wreck, ruin, spoil" and yet the news of tornadoes in the last week, no matter the network, can only use "devastated" and its varied tenses.  I think today I'll keep a running total just for grins.  After all, I have nothing else to do, like write a dissertation, read a few dozen books, grade papers, finish a novel, clean my house, and so on and so on.

John McCain (rotten fascist motherfucker he is, but I'm not biased) is at DU today.  I tried to get onto the highway at Colfax to get to school from Auraria and it was blocked off because he will be traveling it.  I can't understand why the whole city has to be inconvenienced for one person to travel.  One person who isn't our president (thank God), isn't in immediate danger, isn't likely a terrorist target, gets to have an entire highway system to himself when there are over a million people here trying to do real jobs?  Argh, and fuck that guy and his Bush-esque politics.  What's great about him coming to DU today, though, is how many people are NOT here to see him.  When Obama came here, people started lining up before dawn, and two overflow gyms were needed for people to flock to just to hear him; the doors of the Cable Center opened this morning at 8:30 to only about fifty people.  At 9:30 - and he's scheduled to speak at 10 - there is available parking as far as the eye can see.  I feel hopeful.  

Vive la revolution!  Vive Obama.