consumerism, cheating spouses, the FDR connection, and Nixon...

well, another christmas came and went, and along with it another disgusting display of american over-the-top consumerism. although i hear this year was not as throw-money-at-anything-and-everything as past years. retailers are counting on the after christmas sales to pick them up a bit. suppose that is what happens when you allow the stock market to skyrocket over decades while 99 percent of the population watches their spending power decline at the same time. guess those filthy rich folks aren't picking up the slack so much...or investing in this country for that matter. but then, who really needs to rebuild the infrastructure and manufacturing and farming in this country when you can exploit overseas folks for it. i would say we will all be dead when it bites us in the ass anyways...but i'm putting my money on it happening before i hit retirement age...if i make it that long...

so as i was in a wonderful mood and consuming good beer (not even miller lite...like real beer...i know, shocking) i actually turned the tv on (mostly because reading real books while you are intoxicated is much tougher than i remember studying intoxicated being). house was on...first time i watched it. some lady came down with african sleeping sickness which she caught from an affair. her husband (dracula from blade 3) said part of him did not want her to get better, because it would mean she was faithful...and she lied to the doctors and said she never had an affair, knowing she might die because of it. well, eventually she got better and he immediately left her. made me even more depressed...and curious as to what i would do in that situation. can't say i wouldn't take my chances with death...but i'm fairly certain i would want my wife to get better. i'm with dracula though, i'd be out the door...but i'd probably wait until she was atleast out of the hospital bed. but then maybe i wouldn't...people fuck up...good people...the kind of people you would never expect it from...we all have, yet we all act like we're the only ones this ever happened to, and that are partner's the only one that has ever done it...even though i would bet it would be hard to hurt someone if only that hadn't got to throw the rocks...

i've begun to think of GW as the second coming of FDR. only instead of expanding the power of the executive to brand new heights to lift the common man out of the mess that over-speculation and greed driven rich assholes placed him in (yes, it is sexist to only use masculine terms there...but they are shorter, and i am lazy...so i apologize to the women out there) GW has decided to expand the power in the name of "the man"...so much for conservativism...unless it now means "it makes me feel big and lets me do things i shouldnt"...gotta hand it to the guy though, he sure knows how to take advantage of a situation.

the whole mess makes me wish Nixon hadn't been caught...i've grown a new found respect for that man and what his role in american history could have been. unfortunately, he fucked it up, and we've been stuck with money-grubbing assholes ever since.

this is why i'm lying when i say i don't love you no more...