diddleless libraries, you paying frogs, hillary hates you, and other random thoughts...

I've been working...a lot. for those that are curious - a motion to reconsider the two year sentence imposed on elton richard has just been filed. it is a giant of factual analysis if I don't say so myself...but it also means I need to get back to the rest of life...and before delving into the next brief, here's some shit on my mind...

the albuquerque public library system just declared that sex offenders are no longer allowed on the premises of any public library. and once again we see the paranoia at work - the "don't ever give any hope of rehabilitation and we should kill them all the second they are accussed" crowd speaks again. once you get past the reality that this is utterly unenforceable (although I am picturing terminator-esque face scans at the doors of all public buildings in albuquerque) - you realize that is is also utterly fucked up. these people have served their time, and then some. they are on lists with their pictures posted online declaring them to be the lowest of the low - a sex offender. (nevermind that if you are a 19 yr old senior in high school and happen to get a little physical with your 16 yr old sophomore girlfriend you are, technically, a sex offender). and now they can't even go get a goddamn book from a public library. nothing like some good old fashioned american limitations on "public" - its practically a national pasttime.

few days ago we learned that not only is the military's budget ridiculously bloated and dragging us all into the easily foreseen sink-hole that is the graveyard of economic hegemon's past - but now the administration is using it as a way to transfer your tax dollars not just to the richie rich's in new york and little connecticut, but to the french. how interesting that the same people that wanted french fries renamed "freedom" fries have now used american tax dollars to put approximately 15,000 american workers out of a job in favor of handing a huge contract to a french company. (yes, jobs will supposedly be created in alabama - but a hell of a lot less than boeing had promised). there was a time when republicans were respectable (of course that was about 150 years ago) - there was a time when the granddaddy of them all could rightly say "republicans are for both man and the dollar, but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar." abe, for your sake, I hope there is no afterlife - because if you can see this, man you must be pissed...

hillary is patting herself on the back and claiming a big victory, crediting her bullshit rove-ian tactics...of course it is still virtually impossible for her to win the nomination without underhanded backroom deals. every time this woman gets a chance to show that she actually does care about what is right, that she actually does give two shits about this country - she blows it. when bill pushed NAFTA over healthcare - she fell in line. when her husband walked all over her for decades - she became a feminist hero for letting it happen again (someone still needs to explain this one to me). when presented with the possibility of another war that made no sense - she did not even read the report before voting to give the boy king the green light. when presented with the best thing to happen to her party, to the left, and to the country's politics in decades - she slanders it. so tell me...why does anyone respect this woman?

and another thing - isn't this celebration a little odd in the way the post new hampshire celebration was odd? two weeks ago her lead was 25 points in ohio and 10 in texas...cut in half in ohio and barely won in texas...how exactly is this a comeback?

hillary wants the two to run on the same ticket...perhaps it looks as though her best shot at getting into the white house is with "clinton" in small print under "obama"...

brett favre retired...never imagined I would say this, being a bears fan and all, but the game won't be the same without him...there is always something wonderful about a man realizing it is just that, a boy's game...and playing it like one...

spring training is in full-swing...and with a fuld pie in center - how can the cubs not win it all?

the california supreme court heard arguments on gay marriage...the state attorney general's office (taking a page from the boy king's administration and arguing against civil liberties) stated that we just need to give society time to adjust. which is why jim crow was necessary...society just wasn't ready for them uppity negroes, especially those ones that wished to (gasp) marry a white person. good god...how will society ever survive if devoted lovers are allowed to publically declare their loyalty to one another? it would be the end of family values...

so you're gonna save the world? you're not saving anything...