I'm having a hard time writing op/ed pieces lately. Not that I ever had an easy time with it in the first place. In retrospect, my pieces remind me of something you'd hear a drunk activist ranting about at some party. Preaching to the converted it's called... oh well... I also use too many parentheticals and elipses, but it's just a reflection of my speaking style.

I don't know, I just think I've been off the horse for too long. usually I write about something that I think isn't getting enough coverage, or something that just infuriates me so much I have to just sit here and stream subconscious rhetoric for an hour or so into this blog.

But lately... everybody's already saying what I would. And nothing is setting me off like it used to. I didn't get into this to be another talking head just repeating what I saw on CSPAN yesterday. And this Dickie Clarke thing has just blown me out of the water entirely. Anything else I write about would seem pointless next to it... But yet, so many have said so much about it already that I don't want to feel like I'm just throwing another point of view on top of the growing pile. All you need to do is look at some other great sites for much better political commentary. Such as Common Dreams, which culls it's material from a huge array of sources all over.

Perhaps tomorrow I will build up enough of a sufficient rage to spew on about global warming and all that junk. It's really the only issue I care about anymore that is still 100% ignored by the media. So tune in tomorrow (and thursday at 8) to hear me bitch about the pentagon's contingency plans, oil company conspiracies, SUVs, and the myopic visions of our global leaders who shall herd us all into certain doom unless the do a 180 on their environmental policies.

Right now I got a PBR can calling my name.

-slacker

Amazing developments lately folks. Richard Clarke has replaced McCain at the top of my list of favorite conservatives. I've seen the testimony, read the backround briefing, and am considering getting the book. Nothing tells me that this guy is lying in any way. What has he got to gain? his political career is over for sure. His book sales will eventually taper off, he knows this. So why is he doing all this? Maybe he grew a conscious... who knows?

All I know is that even if I didn't believe Clarke, I'd be pretty disappointed with the white house for the lengths they're going to discredit this man. And Condy Rice... jeeze... I knew she was satan's imp, but this is ridiculous. She'll talk to everybody, on any TV show, but she won't talk to the commission. Why? Obviously she's scared of being under oath... you don't need me to point that out. But the true irony is that the more she refuses, despite the louder calls to testify, the more people become convinced she has something to hide. And judging by how often she blinks, and how much her voice faulters in her TV appearances, I think she's got a BIG ole skeleton in her closet.

barring the capture of osama bin laden, and other various possible october surprises, it's gonna be real hard for Kerry to fuck this one up.

-slacker

Hola amigos... it's been a while since I rapped at ya...

On February 26th, after my show, I fell rather ill. I've been getting these rather horrendous bouts of vertigo and naseau couple with stuffed up lungs and air passages. I think it might be related to allergies, but none of my doctors have any idea what's going on. Anti-histamines don't help, and only serve to make me drowsy. It's also been compounded over the past few days with complications due to a nasty cold that I've contracted.

So that's why I haven't done my show in two weeks, and also why I won't be doing it tonight. But do tune in because bathos will be covering my show, and he's got a very special guest lined up tonight.

Anyhow... So it's been a year already has it? Jesus that was fast... Those 12 months with 550 soldiers dead and untold thousands of civilians meeting a similar fate just seemed to totally fly by. It almost seemed like yesterday when I was standing out on Devon freezing my ass off... or sitting in the radio studio taking calls from people marching on Lake Shore Drive.

Anyhow, I really should write something here about the war and how I feel about it now that it's been a year... but that bed is calling me. I just gotta lie down...

Tune me in on Saturday... I'll be out at watertower, covering the march. Hopefully I'll have more to say.

-slacker