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.
much of America still blindly loves its guns, and of course handguns are a nice addition to any God-fearing family's arsenal of ridiculous self-defense weaponry
loaded with sadness and a feeling of despair, the cruel notion that America is still defined by its love of violence
more paranoid NASCAR dads stocking Glocks in the rec room to protect the rug rats from those icky drug-dealing rapists who never come.
not to mention fondled by those same curious rug rats who find daddy's little Elvis in the sock drawer
the Bush virus will be with us for years, generations
nefarious arrangements, a corruption so deep that normally staid historians are behaving more like alarmed climate-change scientists:
a rogue outsourced military, citizens who can no longer sue gun manufacturers, six straight years of increased poverty, untold numbers of homophobic, misogynistic judicial appointees, devastating environmental policies
no president in modern history has done more to unravel the American identity, to dumb down the populace and cater to the basest instincts of man
the lesson of any major injury, of surviving a serious illness
ignoring the scar, or looking away from our permanent deformity
letting the scale of the wound fuel us
do we have enough optimistic ointment
WHEW! That is one sick puppy! I betcha one of his hobbies is to write daytime soap opera pilots while daydreaming about a sex change operation. Check this description...
Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also teaches yoga, subscribes to magazines, admires trees, detests shrill alarmism (including his own), sleeps naked. He has not seen your blog, but is sure it's amazing. He never wears sneakers. He writes about politics, pop culture, sex, music, design, a wry and punch-drunk universe, vibrators, scotch, media, spirituality and small European cars. And sometimes, genital grooming. Email him here. Subscribe to his Notes & Errata column here. Or dig into the RSS feed
Genital grooming? sick sick sick sick...