My manic-depressive cycle has now shortened from its normal 43

[Jackpine Radical]

minutes to approximately 9. That is now the length of time between peaks of elation filled with the conviction that the End is Near for the Bushies and the depths of depression as I become overwhelmed by a belief they're gonna skate again.

Aaaagh, Help! Somebody talk sense to me.

[wtmusic]

1. Zoloft and some good music

work wonders. For me, anyway. (Now I'm just pissed all the time) ;)

[babylonsister]

2. LOL! I hope you're kidding!

I remain hopeful, as ever, that these criminals will get their just desserts. One way or the other, they will be 'outed'.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Well, I AM spinning a bit

thinking through the possible implications of it all. And my head (especially my Reticular Activating System) is still a bit messed up from having spent most of the morning consulting with a defense attorney & half the afternoon testifying as an expert witness in a criminal case. It was a long cross-examination.

[notadmblnd]

3. I was manically happy today too

but I just wrote off to the sunshine.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. Fear not, JPR . . .

You are born of tough, tough stuff.

You are the psychic offspring of Emily Dickenson and Reddy Kilowatt.

Peace.

-cat

[ClayZ]

5. Red red wine.....

is helping me tonight! This is a great week for democaracy!

[stevedeshazer]

7. It's been a long, slow, and excruciatingly painful ride

I share your disorder, which includes, but may not be limited to, spasms of joy interspersed with liberal doses of schadenfreude and serious bouts of funk and doubt.

My head tells me that the end of Bushco is near. My heart is practically thumping out of my chest screaming, "You said Bush was toast five years ago."

JR, there's just too much shit happening. Right now, Stevie's head is winning. It's a very deep pile these guys are in.

Does the head prevail?

When a brazillion treasonous things happened from soup to nuts and still the Bush Crime family walks away with pockets bulging with cash, the heart goes Crashcart on me.

Crap. I probably haven't helped at all.

[babylonsister]

8. Damn. nt

[wiggs]

9. Over the last five years, there have been nearly as many misdeeds

each week as there are now. We may see lower approvals, we may see a sacrificial prosecution, we may see more hearings....but I'm not sure how much any of that alters disastrous WH policy in any policy area. Do you see any real change?

Further, they've already skated their way to more than they ever thought possible...a little disgrace, some jailtime for lower echelon bushies or scapegoats, even some impeachment is small price to pay for what they've accomplished, in their minds and in the minds of corporate boardrooms.

With impeachment, at least we could hope for a stop to the insanity, corruption, and death and I'll gladly support it (go Waxman, Conyers, Feingold the the few other brave colleagues of yours). I myself don't even think jailtime for the top five in the adminsitration comes close to justice. I recognize that impeachment would merely be a cessation of daily misdeeds...not justice for past ones.

Sorry, but on the off-chance that some real action comes from the hearings I plan to be both happy and sad...happy that we have a small victory, and sad that the entire tragedy occured. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, debt beyond measure, and the threat of environmental catastrophe far outweigh the satisfaction of seeing a handful of rogue administrators being told to stop doing that anymore. There are no winners here, only losers. And no elation...just anger and grim determination to make things better.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. My sincerest apologies.

I'm an idiot.

[Cleita]

11. Look at what historically has happened to demagogues.

They never come to a good end. I'm just sorry that they can wreak as much devastation as they do before they come to their just deserts, but they seem to always get destroyed in the end. So, I'm pretty certain BushCo will come crashing down in flames in the future. It's just too bad that so many had to suffer and die before it happens.

[Jonathan50]

12. If you're truly bipolar

And truly cycling that fast.

Get thee to a physician posthaste.

I speak from painful experience.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. I'm not clinically bipolar.

And I think that anybody who "cycles" that fast is not actually bipolar, but is emotionally labile due to reasons (e.g. PTSD) that have nothing to do with a true bipolar condition. "Bipolar" is an overworked diagnosis too often given by physicians looking for a diagnosable Axis I disorder with an associated medication. I have found, in my own practice, that this sort of emotional volatility calls for a good psychological (not psychiatric) workup and often responds well to non-pharmacologcal interventions.

[mdmc]

14. the BFEE will walk, life will go on for you and me

I love when paranoid schizophrenics say to me, "If I get off SSI, I won't be able to pay my rent or heat. I won't be able to afford medication. No one seems to care!"

I tell them that they are not paranoid, they are realistic.

I hope you feel better. Peace and low stress