MORFORD: My handgun, my parasite

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/2/8 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Never forget: The brutal effects of the Bush regime will be felt for generations -

Ah, so this is how it's gonna be.

Like recurring cancer. No, more like a rogue rash, an STD, flaring up at unexpected times and in unexpected places and when it fades, you gently let yourself forget all about it until it suddenly erupts and hits hard and ruins your day, and then you can only sit back and moan softly, slather on ointment, shudder.

Wait, one more: Maybe it's most like a nasty intestinal worm, a wicked parasite like those you suck down in India or deep Mexico or the jungles of Indonesia, the kind that burrow deep and attach to all manner of essential organs and induce a wicked bout of dysentery or all-over body convulsion, until you finally crawl out of the hospital and drown in antibiotics and slowly work your way back to semi-health — but only semi, because of course you are never quite the same.

This is where we are. This is the state of the nation after having swallowed the malicious worm of Bush. We have, by all accounts, suffered — and somehow survived — the very worst of the illness, the cancer, the oozing spirit. But now, as America's worst president prepares to amble off the stage he never deserved to be on in the first place, it is time to prepare for any number of convulsions, aftershock, excruciating reminders.

Here is your Bush-loaded Supreme Court, for one regrettable example, addressing the much-misinterpreted Second Amendment for the first time in eons. Here is the majority of the court basically arguing that, in case you forgot, much of America still blindly loves its guns,...

[wastedyears]

That was the most acidic POS article I’ve ever read.

[xsrdx]

Miss Morford once again serves to remind us all just how far removed from reality the liberal mind can operate.

[wordsofearnest]

What a waste of space & air. Best part of him ran down his daddy’s leg.

[marktwain]

“Id love to spit some beechnut in that dude’s eyes
And shoot him with my old 45”

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I always loved that song. I could relate to it.