ganbatte kudasai

sorry to make you all think that this was going to be some sort of current-events blog that dropped serious science on everyone that reads it. no, there's too many other blogs out there like that, and they do a better job.

mostly, i'm just sick of reading bad news that gets worse and worse.

to sum up what would have otherwise been many long, long articles:

we have the worst president (and by extension, the worst administration) that America has ever had.

President Bush, his subordinates, the Republican party, and the heads of major global corporations have managed to turn a surplus of wealth, good will, and promise into a deficit of money, trust, faith, and American values. They have stolen every good thing about America and turned it into yellow magnets on the back of SUVs, all calling out for us to "Support Our Troops!"

The aforementioned parties lied to us so they could start a war.
The aforementioned parties got together and wrote an energy policy that gave more money than any of us will ever see to oil companies that are seeing record profits.
The aforementioned parties refuse to fight a war on methamphetamines, and instead choose to fight a war on marijuana.
The aforementioned parties do not believe that women have a right to choose what happens in their own bodies.
The aforementioned parties want to know what library books you're reading.
The aforementioned parties outed a CIA agent to get back at someone who disagreed with them, and, now that they're about to get caught, are lying about it.
The aforementioned parties are using the media to lie to you, even now.
Meanwhile, the President is on vacation...again.

President Bush is the worst President ever. He is not your friend. He does not care about you.
He only cares about taking care of his father's friends in the energy industry, the same friends that gave him second chance after second chance until he finally found someone that could protect him and used him to acquire the highest office in the land.

I can barely read about this stuff without getting massively depressed. In fact, I recently started taking medication for depression that is royally fucking with my head and my whole circadian rhythm. So, instead of continuing to punish myself, I will simply quit writing (and, to an extent, reading) about stuff that is so depressing that I have to pay sticker price for medication. (Because, of course, I have no health insurance, and President Bush refuses to do anything about me and the millions of Americans like me.)

Within the next 20 years, we are going to see a depression that the history books will remember forever.

Thanks, President Bush! Have a nice day.