the state of the union. sorta.

boy, i miss jesse jackson’s voice (did he always talk so southern?) on the national scene. just listened him chatting with amy goodman on democracy now, and the directness of some of his remarks remind me that obama can no longer speak quite so frankly on behalf of african americans. yes, having to bite your tongue because you’re running for president is certainly a subtler form of racism than, say, being hung from a tree or arrested for DWB, but it’s still racism. anyway, i wish jackson had kept it in his pants and not excluded himself from the larger conversation. no, he never would have made nominee, even without the affair, but it’s a damn shame that he has been, for all practical purposes, silenced by his own lively penis.

are you registered to vote? are you losing your house? did you know that the republicans are trying to ensure that you lose your vote along with your house if you happen to be having mortgage problems right about now? oh, and college students in virginia are being told they are not allowed to vote in the town where they live and attend school if that’s not where they’re “from”. untrue and illegal.

you can see that smart & honest poll workers are really needed for the upcoming election. please consider signing up to serve if you can.

in the last week, a 4th-grader was suspended from school because his pencil sharpener was broken. i kid you not — teachers actually called police because the micro-sliver of razor found in all cheap pencil sharpeners had come loose from its little plastic house. not that they thought this straight-A student was a terrorist or anything. you know, they were just saying that it was an exposed razor.

in the last week, eric mcclean was sentenced to 2-4 years in prison for killing the teenager who was banging his wife. in cold blood. he says the shotgun just accidentally went off while he was pointing it at the kid, who was sitting behind the wheel of his car. to my mind, if you shove a loaded, cocked weapon into someone’s face and then it accidentally goes off, it wasn’t an accident. like they say in brooklyn, don’t take that shit out unless you gonna use it.

in the last week (getting out my calculator now), about 57,370 people were arrested for possession of marijuana, despite the fact that Francis Young, the DEA’s own administrative law judge determined that Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man… and despite the fact that many cops are opposed to drug prohibition and despite the fact that even doctors are calling loudly for decriminalization and the right to prescribe (not just for chemo sufferers, either — appears that pot is also pretty handy for ADHD kids, with far fewer [none] side effects than that pharmaceutical crap they are getting now).

most of these people will do more time in jail for their baggies of weed than mcclean will do for having murdered his rival.

sarah palin, of course, inhaled. but she’d prefer that you didn’t, thank you very much.

yes, i’m rambling a bit this morning. these stories are not connected by anything other than my astonishment.

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