Lightweight

I had a friend tell me that this blog had gone totally lightweight, meaning that the political posts had disappeared in favor of two-headed babies and genital amputations. True enough, and Ogged posted a yesterday about the same phenomenon occurring over there.

Well, I'm sure I'll return to the politics eventually, but I thought I should take a step back when I realized that, following the election, my main political urge was to drive around the country with my middle finger out the window. I don't think such a display would be unjustified, but perhaps undignified and if this blog screams anything, it screams dignity. Heh. Anyhow, this comment at Digby's pretty much summed up my feelings:

Since the November elections, I feel like the woman whose husband refused to listen when she told him not to sell the family cow for magic beans. She's still forced to consider his welfare, but it's neurochemically impossible to be more angry. And she can see that, irresponsible as he was to do it, as soon as it dawns on him that he's been rooked, he won't repent or apologize -- he'll blame her.

Bullseye, and all the more so as the right gleefully charges headlong into neo-McCarthyism (Seymour Hersh is a terrorist! Jimmy Carter is a traitor! The AARP is a tool of the Gay Conspiracy!). What with a new baby disrupting the already minimal amount of sleep to which I was accustomed, well, I just don't have the energy to get as pissed off as discussing 21st century American politics causes me to get. Moreover, what is there to say when the proprietor of Time Magazine's Blog of the Year calls Jimmy Carter a traitor, except: "You, sir, are quite plainly batshit insane." I don't waste my time trying to convince the guy downtown with his shopping cart that the CIA isn't actually beaming those impure thoughts into his head either. Of course, the alternative explanation is that the folks making those accusations are just malignant pricks who will gladly say any damn thing in an attempt to damage those with whom they disagree. However, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and just go with the batshit theory, because I'm magnanimous like that.

So, accusations of lightweightedness around these parts are 100% justified. I don't much care for feeling angry and right now there's entirely too much angering material out there. Maybe once the little guy starts sleeping through the night.