state of the union

… well, you can forget about a live-blog. That goes for Aunt Katie’s response too. I have to get up in the morning, and there’s not nearly enough alcohol in the world (that’s also low-calorie) that can get me through it otherwise. The State of the Union is Kabuki theater. It is a place where the modern aristocracy jockeys for celebrity face-time and makes overly-wrought and showy gestures of support or disapproval; an exercise in “grand government grab-bag rhetoric”, as Michelle Malkin put it.

I find the whole spectacle nauseating. I find our politics nauseating. Frankly, I find our government — along with almost everyone in it, from Bush on down — nauseating.

So I’m trying, if I can, to live a government-free life tonight.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 19:38 and is filed under next step 2008. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “state of the union”

  1. Joel writes:
    01.28.2008 @ 20:53

    I *am* live-blogging. But I thought I’d drop your name, if that’s OK.

    http://redblueamerica.com/blog/2008-01-28/weve-got-your-state-union-liveblogging-right-here-649

  2. j.d. writes:
    01.28.2008 @ 21:32

    Thanks. Never let it be said that I don’t appreciate it. Thanks to John Sebelius and you, it’s been a big day ’round here.

  3. Jo writes:
    01.28.2008 @ 21:39

    Enjoy your gubmint-free night. I’m just sitting on my couch, getting more and more pissed off. Proof I’m probably a masochist, somehow.

  4. El Borak writes:
    01.28.2008 @ 23:32

    I watched WWE Raw, which was far closer to reality than the State of the Onion, and rode the bike.

    And yeah, I think it was a good choice.

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