Obama: Run the Goddamned Option!

The following is text I composed for the “Additional message to President Obama” field, after I had signed my name to CredoAction.com’s petition “Tell Obama: The public option is not optional.” I urge all of you who read this while the health care reform issue is still current to do the same. Unless you don’t agree with me. No, fuck that — if you don’t agree I still want you to sign it.

If you punt on the public option, this whole initiative will have been in vain. All that would be left in the bill would be the window dressing. Window dressing, without a bloody *window*! …

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Why So Silent?

It has come to pass that my friend Todd has seen fit to mock me for my lack of new content in the comments section of my last post. He is lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on one’s personal taste) to have caught me in a particularly sarcastic mood. He informed me that I’d been “tagged in a meme,” and that’s where the trouble started. [... READ ON ...]

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