Hot Electric Quicksand #18

Looks like the infection is abating. Awaiting word on whether or not I’ll have flap surgery or wound vac or just let it heal. Feeling better on some fronts, weighed down on others, and sickened by several more…

Doesn’t feel like Christmas, whatever that means, but being sick for months on end doesn’t lend itself to holiday cheer. Oh, I’ll kick it in, I’m sure, but the season has been filled with a lot of tension since Thanksgiving. Yeah, my sister-in-law can’t let it go, and my accusation that the feminists are doing nothing in the face of Islamic/hip hop ‘feminine terrorism’ has unsettled her. At the risk of offending female readers, she is typical of many women I encounter today: fiercely concerned with defending whatever position she holds dear, fighting tooth and nail until the ‘enemy’ is vanquished, and unable/unwilling to admit when she’s wrong/mistaken. It’s almost as if it’s a crime to challenge a woman’s views, or at the very least, it’s offensive. The first instinct is to attack, and once the fighting begins, not much else can happen.

This is a decidedly American female thing.  In my view, another failure of feminism: unleashing women to explore the world without giving them, or demanding they acquire, adequate survival tools. I didn’t say ‘critical thinking skills,’ a fraudulent discipline in my view for its aim of weeding out all contradiction and putting thought in a linear order. I said ‘adequate survival skills,’ and I mean: the ability to laugh at oneself;  the ability to pull away from a fight/engagement; the ability to look past one’s opinion and consider the thoughts of another person who may not share the same opinion. Feminism has given women the sense that they can compete in the workplace with any man, and should be accorded the same rights as men have long enjoyed. No fight from me on that, but it seems feminism hasn’t been able to rest of its victories, yet can’t sort out its priorities.

I’m more concerned lately with the creation of a nation of free-sex, no-consequence sluts. My youngest son is overwhelmed by girls throwing themselves at him, expecting sex and right now! He’s effing 14, for G’s sake, but young girls have been trained to go get what they want, and that sex without consequence  is something they’re entitled to. Funny but my son prefers Latin girls now, and seems disgusted by American girls who are so ‘available’. Self-respect has been omitted, and don’t wear a condom if you don’t want.

“Latin girls know how to play, Pops,” he said the other day, “they have more fun but you have to chase them, and I like that. You don’t have to chase the girls at school, they chase you.”

Rome burns and the only people that can save us, the women, are out shaking their asses. Fuck it, it’s the white man’s fault anyway…

And the political world is absurd! Hillary is being seen for the vindictive, sleaze-bitch she is, and her poll numbers show it. Obama is hiding something, I can smell it. Edwards appears like he cares, but sincerity is a sold commodity these days, performed rather than lived. Besides, he’s a damn trial lawyer, the worst scum of the worst. All ya got left then is Biden and Richardson; not bad choices actually, but unelectable.

On the Repub end, Romney is so slick he makes Edwards appear like a yokel. I fear politicians tied to their religions, so that eliminates a hoard of those phonies. McCain is irrelevant, and his immigration work is dangerous. All you got left is Guliani and Thompson; Thompson at least has some fire, but none of these guys inspire.

We’ve had our fill of the Bush and Clinton regimes, and it’s time for fresh blood, say the public. Bush is a failure and a fraud; sad because I voted for him in ‘00 and felt he might inject a spirit of change into politics; not quite, eh? Yeah I was wrong on that one, though my mantra, ‘anyone but Al Gore’ still rings true, at least to me. Thank G he didn’t get in…

But there’s nobody who inspires me on either side, no leaders ready and willing to break the mold. We don’t need any more Washington insiders, which only spell more of the same. I’ve watched every debate, Dem and Repub, and have been disheartened during/after each; the Hillary plants at the CNN ‘debate’, my G, how much does CNN owe the Clintons? Disgusting, yet I hear many plegics whine, ‘Hillary is our best chance at stem cell research’. Not true, Edwards looks to be that steward, if we can trust him. Guliani is a businessman, and he’ll support the research simply because he knows we’re potentially losing billions; I don’t see any other Repub -save Allen Keyes- willing to go there, so if we vote today, it’s Edwards and Guliani for no other reason than that I’m sick of this condition and want somebody, anybody to dump some funds into Pandora’s stem cell box.

It’s an old world election system that is fraught with holes, 19th century BS. Iowa and New Hampshire tell us what America wants? You don’t win either and you’re done?

It’s funny, if the Dems nominate Hillary, the Repubs take it in a landslide; if they go Obama or Edwards, they have a chance, but the media machinery is so behind/extorted by the Clintons, it’ll never happen. No criticism of Hillary or her past is allowed; she gets soft lens treatment from every media outlet, the de-facto candidate. Watch her numbers plummet, though, the more exposure she gets.

Yet come spring, I’ll be out there railing against this and supporting that. It’s in my blood.
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(Note: My book, ‘Scouring the globe for a cure: a disabled man’s experiences with stem cell treatment’
can be purchased at the following Web address:
www.booklocker.com/books/2857.html)