BILMS playlist entry #7

The Decemberists: “Sixteen Military Wives”



So at this point, it is just embarrassing that I haven’t gotten a blog up in over a month. First of all, the last stages of getting my book out were quite stressful and time consuming (It is available now on Amazon…although I still don’t have a cover picture up! The folks at Powell’s said it should be up on their site by Monday). Then, I tried writing a blog two weeks ago, and it just ended up this crazy rant about how mad I am at John McCain. Here is the basic message of my trashed anti-McCain blog: he is so old there is a high probability that he will die in office and leave us with Evangelical, bullying, aspiring-facist president Palin. And president Palin will just look like a third term of George W. I’ll save you from the two pages of fuming that got me to that place. But I’m keeping the Decembrists video as a humorous take on the horror that has been Republican foreign policy in the last eight years.

What’s even worse than my sad attempt at political blogging is that I thought it would be a really good idea to have all of my blogs between now and Election Day canter around reasons why you shouldn’t vote for John McCain. For example, I wanted to write a blog about how a president who has never used email would be so completely out of touch with modern America that he couldn’t govern effectively. My god, McCain’s so clueless he doesn’t even realize how bad it sounds to say you’ve never used email. And I wanted to write another blog about how ridiculous it is to have an energy policy based on off-shore drilling for oil. And there probably should be one about McCain’s inability to handle the crisis with the American economy. Anyway, enough with the political talk. Buy my book and don’t vote for John McCain!