This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friend

Normally, I try not to engage the stupid side of politics, to comment on that which seems so counterintuitive that it's scarcely worth my time.

However...

Because we're host to the good ol' DNC this week, the stupidity level has reached a new pitch (or perhaps a new IQ low) of "protesters" whose only merit is perhaps keeping the police busy so I can speed on the highway like any other normal commuter. The Dead Baby people are everywhere this week, holding their larger-than-life photos of aborted children and holding their typically single-minded signs that achieve nothing. Yesterday I was subjected to these insufferable morons on every overpass of the southern corridor of I-25. It was all I could do to not stop at each exit and drive on the overpass just to scream obscenities at them - to tell them that their behavior and method is morally repugnant and worst of all, rhetorically pointless. To be honest, this is what bothers me most: I don't care if you're pro-life, pro-choice, pro-fucking dead farm animals - others' belief systems have little bearing on my own - but the aggressive act of holding up gory signs does nothing. That's it. NOTHING.

Well, it does prove that you're a religious, ignorant crackpot, but that goes without saying really. A mass of religious crackpots put an enormous anti-abortion sign on Table Mesa yesterday. They toiled and toiled to walk these massive pieces up the mountain so "everyone would see it." Great. I saw it and the only thought it inspired in me was this:

In a world where genocide of people who are already living, breathing, cognizant human beings is widespread; where Russia gets to march into wherever the hell it feels like because they want to begin another Cold War; where McCain stands a real chance of being the commander in chief of this troubled country; where people starve, lose their jobs and homes, children are illiterate, abused, and neglected; and where senior citizens (and my parents' generation more specifically) are threatened with longer lives and less money to support that life - that ABORTION is what these fucking people are so concerned about that they're willing to come from all over the country to toil on a mountain in the heat of August to tell the DNC that they don't like abortion.

As if fewer people in the world until we can figure out how to live better in it isn't a GOOD thing. As if crack whores and fraternity sluts SHOULD bring babies into the world. As if God (if there is a God) isn't saying a hearty "whew" when trailer park, welfare Bertha opts to not make one more person in the world miserable and stupid. As if these people weren't cruel to the already in the world people who don't fit their agenda (gays, single mothers, and liberals). I don't believe for one second that any one of those idiots would take a step out of their daily lives to help a child who is already here - do you think one of these people would adopt a crack baby? I would daresay few if any of them have even been faced with the decision of whether to bring a child into the world. How very fucking nice for you if you haven't, but if you haven't (or never will for that matter), then shut your mouth for goodness sake. Abortion shouldn't even be a legislative issue. I can't believe we waste our time on this utter nonsense.

And since I'm already on a roll, the John McCain ads are about to push me right over the edge of sanity. The new one with the idiot woman with the most uneducated midwest accent I can imagine claims that she was a Hillary supporter and now she's going with McCain because he has "experience" and he's a "maverick." What is so maverick about playing follow the leader with the least popular president in the history of the U.S.? So what, you were a POW - I don't fucking care because that has no bearing on your ability to lead a country, except to warn us that you may have some serious psychological concerns. But this woman telling us "it's OK" to vote for McCain after not getting to vote for Hillary is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. How is it OK to sell out the things you stood for six months ago because you don't like that your team lost? How honest a voter does that make you?

What is with the Hillary people? Some blubbering woman was on the news this morning weeping after the speech last night because she was so heartbroken that Hillary isn't going to be president. Seriously? When W was re-elected four years ago, I was despondent to be sure, even depressed, but I wouldn't go on national television and weep as though I just lost my best friend. It's politics, and at best it's only ever about choosing the lesser of evils. Hillary is no saint, and neither is Barack Obama, but he seems like the least evil of the politicians so I'm going with it. He's sure as fuck better than Crackpot McCain, who is old and crotchety and has that terrible accent - oi - that I'm so sick of hearing. How long does the world need to know us as the country with the fucking HICK in the White House? McCain looks like the Crypt-Keeper with his pasty, wax-paper skin and age spots and his wife is Cruella De Ville with a plastic surgeon. I'm sick of the old white people running this country.

I say, get over the Hillary thing; it's fucking over. There is too much at stake to be so butt-hurt about this fact that you're willing to vote for more zombie politics out of spite. I never cease to be shocked by stupid people.