Can we all just scream now? Mark Morford

[donco6]

If you don't get Mark Morford's hysterical rantings, check this out.

(Well, hysterical only because it's so g*ddam true . . . )


Let Them Eat Cake Off Lynne Cheney's Cellulitic Thigh


The nation's rocky economy sent 1.4 million more people into poverty last year, a Census Bureau survey found. Nearly half of the newly impoverished were children. Roughly 17.2 percent of children, or 12.2 million, lived in poverty in 2002, up from 16.4 percent, or over 11.5 million, in 2001, according to the American Community Survey results. President Bush, distressed at the news, immediately gave huge tax relief to the wealthiest Americans in the nation, slashed welfare and school budgets and moneys for social programs of a thousand different varieties, and gutted the national budget so severely that the states were required to sell off their prettiest little girls to Thailand to make extra cash just to pay for water and electricity and shopping mall maintenance. Meanwhile, the GOP simply didn't give a damn, everyone with any sense of tenderness or concern felt this crushing sense of bitter ennui and sad detachment coupled with an overwhelming urge to take a long hot bath and drink fine scotch and try to numb the savage karmic pain, and one million unwanted dogs in shelters all across the country waited, patiently, for someone to come and take them home. There. Can we all just scream now?

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====== SF Gate Morning Fix ======
September 3, 2003 -- Charlie Sheen turns 38 today
By Mark Morford - [e-mail]
"Lube up, lean into the fire, and laugh"
~~ nil desperandum ~~

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1. 17.2% of children living in poverty

Next time you go past an elementary school playground, or see a class on an outing, think to yourself, "Out of those 30 kids, five of them don't have enough to eat." Then think about the long-term effects early malnutrition has on physical and mental development. Reflect on the explosive growth of the prison industry.

Then resolve to vote Democratic, and get at least one other person to the polls next year.

[donco6]

2. I swear everyone I know will have their butts at the polls . . .

. . . if I have to drag them there myself.

And if any of them votes REPUGLICAN, well, I'm a nonviolent sorta guy, but I just hope they enjoy the long walk home.