Posted on 11/07/2004 7:14:51 AM PST by ambrose
Posted on Sun, Nov. 07, 2004
BUSH'S WIN ADDS TO SEATTLE'S GLOOM
MOOD-CRUSHING WINTERTIME ARRIVES, AND JOLT OF COFFEE MAY NOT HELP
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post
SEATTLE - It has been a SAD week in Seattle, city of rain, darkness, caffeine, secularism and an 82 percent majority that voted in vain to fire President Bush.
SAD, as just about everybody here knows, is an acronym for seasonal affective disorder, the mood-crushing curse of wintertime existence in the northernmost major U.S. city in the Lower 48. An estimated 20 to 30 percent of residents experience some degree of the disorder, which researchers believe is triggered by the body's reaction to reduced natural light. Symptoms include sadness, irritability, gluttony, weight gain, menstrual difficulties and interpersonal strain.
As expected, suffering began last Sunday, with the end of daylight-saving time. Like a guillotine blade, darkness fell at 5 in the afternoon. It was the pitiless annual reminder that by midwinter, there would barely be eight hours of daylight, almost all of it sponged up by thick blankets of concrete-colored clouds that, on average, squat over Seattle 226 days a year.
The next day, election eve, it rained hard. The wind blew, roofs leaked, basements flooded and Seattle seemed to slip irretrievably into the dank funk that has given birth to the SAD resistance movement, otherwise known as excessive caffeine consumption. That movement gave birth to Starbucks and scores of other, lesser-known local purveyors of overpriced coffee.
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As election returns sank in, the city's seasonal slough of despond seemed to deepen. A local public radio talk show kicked off a lugubrious afternoon of post-election whining with a saxophone solo of ``Am I Blue?'' Several callers said they would be moving to nearby British Columbia.
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Mongol Warrior: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women!
I don't know, I'm pretty happy right now.
Gloom is a hobby in Seattle!...geez
Just underlines the fact that we need to go back to some of the energy conservation policies of the '70's - one of which would be to keep the daylight savings time all year.
Better them than me.
The next four years are going to be a difficult period indeed.
Kurt Cobain got out of there when the going was good.
I'll gladly sell the Socialists of Seattle some rope with which they can hang themselves.
It sounds like somebody sat on their bumbershoot.
LOVE TO HEAR LAMINATING WOMEN !! It's like double doses of Testosterone and Adrenelin being injected into my blood stream !!!YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Jezzzeee !!Does this mean the suicide rate will increase in Seattle??
82 percent majority? It proves that the Democrats are a bunch of doom and gloom idiots. Now keep an eye on the suicide rate.
Not.
When it rains it pours.
LOL..WE WON...This is my last GLOAT(or perhaps not)
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Get out of the cities and move to small town America, even if you are still near a big city. Move South. Find a job you like or at least tolerate. Volunteer somewhere. Graduate and move on. Have a family. If inclined go to Church or Temple. Mow the grass and plant something. At the least you will feel better and it's likely you or your children will become conservative.
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