political post for the day
I have been stewing over this here article
that was in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the other day about Hummers. I don't know if I can properly express how furious I get when useless yuppie twits who live in cul-de-sacs buy monstrous off-road vehicles like Hummers. And then they say stuff like, “It's a very patriotic vehicle, I feel like I'm driving a huge American flag” just to piss me off even more. Another operative quote you'll find in that article is something to the tune of, “This is America, I should be allowed to drive whatever I want.” Yes, in America, if you have hundreds of thousands of weak dollars burning holes in your pocket you should be able to go buy an essentially useless (in the civilian suburbs) vehicle that gets 8 mpg. What the fuck?
Okay, answer me this: if our country is so “kind” and altruistic enough to “liberate” another country from an oppressive regime (since the latest trend in propaganda is that we're not doing this because of WMD we're doing this because we care about the Iraqi people), why are we not altruistic enough to buy fuel-efficient vehicles?
And I don't have the energy to get into the teeny tiny article in the Post-Gazette tossing a mention that yes, N. Korea has two nuclear warheads but *gasp* we found, like, two hand grenades in Iraq! eeeek!
In other news, some 14-year-old kid blew away his principal and then shot himself in the head upstate. Tragic, yes.
Now, say what you will about school shootings, but I find it amusing that the articles always somehow manage to focus on what music the Trenchcoat Mafia du jour was listening to. This one was listening to Limp Bizkit. *snickers* Ordinarily I get enraged when they try to blame music for the horrible things that kids do. But in the case, I hope they take the opportunity to castrate Fred Durst for destroying America's youth…or something…whatever…just get that guy out of my face for good. I'll never forgive him for the 500 boxes of Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog-Flavored Water cds that I had to unpack many moons ago during my life at Music X. But who am I kidding? They'll probably just find a way to blame it on Marilyn Manson, anyway. Poor guy.
Also, I don't know if I have any Limp Bizkit fans reading this at the moment, so I apologize if my comments regarding Senor Durst offended you. Any conservatives, Hummer drivers, or Rick Santorums who might be reading this can bite me.
