What's on your feeble mind Duane?

Let's just give in and give up. Democrats and Independents and Libertarians, go home, let the Republican way of life rule the world. Let them drill off the coasts of Florida and California, let them build a hundred nuclear plants, let them dump toxic waste in all the wetlands. Kick back and enjoy. They'll be doing us all a favor. Mass collective suicide, better faster than slower, better sooner than later. The Rapture's a -comin' anyway, and this is What Jesus Would Do, isn't it?

What am I talking about? Well, our kindly president G.W. Bush and his even kindlier, gentler potential "conservative" successor John McCain both eagerly want to lift the Outer Continental Shelf Moratorium (which has been in place since 1981), thus ending our national collective nightmare and bringing Him more American Oil Gas and Glory! Amen, Amen!

Didn't God give us Dominion, and don't we intend to Dominate, Damage and Destroy everything in Our Path, Cheek by Other Cheek?


One of the things I certainly do remember from the Reagan years -- William S. Burroughs and snippets from his "Thanksgiving Prayer" (Tornado Alley, 1986):

Thanks
For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.

*Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison*

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on
wolves and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify

until

the bare lies shine through.

[Yes, & thanks for those elections in 1968, 1972, 1980,

1984, 1988 and 2000

Thanks for keeping the half-wit in charge

in 2004

Thanks for a Silent Majority

And The Moral Majority

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks,

Now please give us More!]

Today's Rune: Wholeness.