Bad American

I have tried watching Morning Joe off and on for several days but today I had to turn it off for good. It’s either CNN’s excretable American Morning or one of the local TV news yawners.

Today, the female co-host brought up the story about the obscene cost of the war in Iraq that I covered yesterday.

And Scarborough said something to the effect of ‘how can you put a price on freedom?’ Then he said ‘how can you look in the eyes of an Iraqi child that you have brought freedom to. . . ‘

If I had been at the anchor desk, I fear I would have hit him so hard he would have bounced off the walls and I would have broken my hand.

How can any reasonably intelligent person say such shit? But that’s the conservative American war-lovers - lie, lie, lie.

What a ‘liberal media’ eh?

Well, as readers can tell, I’ve been pretty angry lately and I know I can’t be the only one. The way I see it, I have these  choices:

1. Join the Matrix, learn to love Big Brother

2. Self-medicate

3. Stop watching most if not all media.

4.  Find other angry people and stage ‘rage-offs for peace.’

Actually, I kinda like the idea of ‘Rage-offs for peace.’ Got the cognitive dissonance thing going, gets people thinking.

Anyway, this is getting to be a problem for me. I can’t afford a vacation on the beach, so that’s out as well. Perhaps I need to see if anyone sells a “George W. Bush punching bag” and take it all out on it.

There’s also Zen. I tried it once but if you’re ADHD (I know, I know, it doesn’t exist, but it does), Zen meditation is almost impossible. The mere act of ‘clearing your mind’ can take hours for a person like me.

Of course there’s always this blog. All of that angst has to come out somehow, I suppose.