I Am A Statistic

I may be intelligent but sometimes I'm quite slow. Case in point, although I was fired/'laid off' back at the end of April, I did not until a couple of days ago realize that there are people right now being paid to do the exact same job I used to do on the exact same equipment for the exact same employer. Problem is, those people are in Bangalore, India. I have been outsourced. The tax dollars I pay each & every year were used in part to subsidize the very same people who stole my livelihood. Anger doesn't come close to describing what I am feeling.

(No, I'm not interested in the upcoming election. I'm sick of the horserace and the bullshit that passes for 'issues' these days. Worse I'm pretty certain that regardless who wins, nothing much will change and that no matter who wins, Bushco will walk free w/all their ill-gotten gains intact. Justice? Rule of law? Hardeharharhar.)

Why The Silence?

Frankly, all I post here are stories & commentary about things that interest me and these days that isn't much. I am disgusted at the rush to remake this country into a fascist dictatorship and see no signs this will stop nor will the situation improve in my lifetime. The best thing I can say is I'm glad I do not have children.

Someone I've read for years, Skimble, recently shutdown his blog leaving us with these words:

Outrage fatigue. I have ceased to care about McStupid's Britney video and Obama's acting presidency. Or the New Yorker cover. Or Cindy McCain's 20 painkillers a day. Or the endless hand-wringing about the fucking narrative.

The 24/7 minutiae of yet another artificial campaign horserace cannot captivate me. The big story is this: The Democrats have failed to hold the existing administration accountable for its flagrant and abundant crimes against Americans and Iraqis and Afghanis and all humanity. History will not be kind to Nancy and Harry, thanks to their perfect ineffectuality. History will also judge the present crop of American citizens as unbearably privileged and hopelessly idiotic for sitting complacently watching CNN while the oily machinery behind this administration waltzed off with the contents of the US Treasury and whatever coin it found in the pockets of the American working class.

If McCain wins, it will be because Americans deserve him, just as we have deserved Bush Junior. If Obama wins, he will be a glorified janitor for the endless piles of shit the GOP left in its wake. Just as Bill Clinton was for Reagan and Bush Senior.

Our complacency will be our downfall, and I no longer care. Let Rush Limbaugh and ExxonMobil have America — it's becoming a crumbling shithole anyway.

And on that happy note, we end the blog.

Unfortunately, I concur wholeheartedly...