the oracle of lo - fi

Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou
thy wrongs;
The title is affeer'd!
--Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III


So Teh GF & I went to the big protest march in Manhattan yesterday; I was reluctant to go because of 1) humidity and 2) worries about my lilly white ass getting sunstroke, arrested, or just brutalized by les flics.

But I dipped myself in sunscreen and off we went. I was very pleased at how peaceful it was, and going down 7th Ave. I did not notice a particularly large police presence until we actually got in sight of the Garden. (I think the only really bad incident was the anarchists setting fire to a paper mache something or other...hey, I don't like paper mache either, but I shall defend to the death a person's right to this display this heinous art form!) Not far from there, however, the crowd took up a chant that puzzled us at first:

Fuck You Suck! Fuck You Suck!

Yes, very puzzling indeed. Mind you, I'm all for Fuck and Suck. I'd vote for them if they were on the ticket. But since they weren't running, and since Fuck and Suck seemed to have very little to do with the issues at hand, I couldn't really get into the shouting. Then, suddenly, we looked up at the a large, ominous billboard for Fox News, and everything became clear. Everyone was yelling: Fox News Sucks.

That, I could get behind.

All in all, a good day. Nonetheless I was happy to get home and take a nice, cool bubble bath with my new bath pillow!

{And indeed, some very literate person had a sign with the above-featured Macbeth quote.)

...you suck.

So Rummy is in Iraq. Will he take a good, hard look at the country, at the people, at the damage done? Could he have some kind of an epiphany while there and realize the utter, horrible gravity of what we have done?

Reading the AP news at salon today, it was mentioned that Rummy is 71. They shoot warhorses, don't they?

And if I am arrested and dragged away in the night for saying that I think Rummy should be shot, well, 1) I was just kidding and 2) Maybe just shot full of tranquilizers? Maybe?