Stuff happened today
So tonight we witnessed the first debate between the two main presidential candidates.
And the House of Representatives struck down a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would prevent people who love each other from getting married because there was a disproportionate number of penises or vaginas involved.
And 34 children died in Iraq, killed by terrorists. This was saddening, but not somehow not surprising. This is the sort of brutality we have all come to expect from terrorists.
Neither candidate mentioned the incident during the debate, nor did I expect them to. Those of us watching the debate discussed the bombing in a certain detached way, shaking our heads at the decadence of it all. A moment later, we were conversing about the twitch in the corner of President Bush's lip when he talks about certain things. Like how important it is to defend America. And how important it is to prevent gay people (he barely restrains himself from saying "faggots") from getting married.
One guy told us how had seen a young Iraqi boy on television, carrying what was left of a bicycle down the street. The bicycle once belonged to his brother. His brother had just been blown up. Wrong place at the wrong time, just like Kerry said. So then would he have lived if we hadn't invaded Iraq in the first place? Maybe five more years before being tortured, perhaps executed, by Saddam Hussein. Maybe 70 more years.
The world isn't easy. All I can do is whisper, "Busy, busy, busy."
Song lyric of the day:
"There's a lot of things I understand
And there's a lot of things that I don't wanna know"
-Splender, "I Think God Can Explain"
And the House of Representatives struck down a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would prevent people who love each other from getting married because there was a disproportionate number of penises or vaginas involved.
And 34 children died in Iraq, killed by terrorists. This was saddening, but not somehow not surprising. This is the sort of brutality we have all come to expect from terrorists.
Neither candidate mentioned the incident during the debate, nor did I expect them to. Those of us watching the debate discussed the bombing in a certain detached way, shaking our heads at the decadence of it all. A moment later, we were conversing about the twitch in the corner of President Bush's lip when he talks about certain things. Like how important it is to defend America. And how important it is to prevent gay people (he barely restrains himself from saying "faggots") from getting married.
One guy told us how had seen a young Iraqi boy on television, carrying what was left of a bicycle down the street. The bicycle once belonged to his brother. His brother had just been blown up. Wrong place at the wrong time, just like Kerry said. So then would he have lived if we hadn't invaded Iraq in the first place? Maybe five more years before being tortured, perhaps executed, by Saddam Hussein. Maybe 70 more years.
The world isn't easy. All I can do is whisper, "Busy, busy, busy."
Song lyric of the day:
"There's a lot of things I understand
And there's a lot of things that I don't wanna know"
-Splender, "I Think God Can Explain"
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