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4.16.2003



i'm building my tolerance for the "news"

like a first-time visitor to a nudist beach, i'm timidly dipping my toe (well, my ear) back into listening to npr. yes, pacifica is fortifying in that it assures me that i am not crazy and the world isn't all the way in the shit basket, but i felt i needed to brush up on what's "supposedly" happening in the world.

this morning, i wake up to the saccharine cheer of jay garner, the puppet before the puppet leader of the interim government of iraq. supposedly, it was his birthday and he was so "proud" to be celebrating it in the birthplace of civilization--iraq. he failed to mention how one of civilization's petulant children, the united states has just finished its attempt to bomb its mother back to the pleistocene era in a barbaric interpretation of "liberation." it's really liberating to know your water and soil will be poisoned indefinitely from the "allies" use of depleted uranium munitions. now, you do not have to worry over the answer to, "why don't i feel quite right?" you are "free" to skip that step and jump right into suffering. (i think i sense another american flag popping out of the window of an SUV--somewhere, out there).

i immediately wanted to switch back to pacifica to avoid these unsavory moments on npr, but i stayed on. i stayed on to listen to dumbya make an announcement on his nonsensical tax plan from the rose garden. i also stayed on to hear, "dammit syria! we know you bad, too! your next!" for now, i'll take comfort in envisioning the karmic actions that are due to come out of this senseless war...

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