After watching some computer-animated CNN tanks heading towards a bridge in Sim City perspective, I’m imposing a media blackout on myself, except for the BBC and Democracy Now – it’s so easy to get caught up in the coverage. Today, while doing homework, I used C-SPAN as white noise as the House debated the Homeland Security budget. Dennis Kucinich and Nancy Pelosi made some passionate arguments (Dennis went so far as to attempt to add an amendment that would call the troops back home and only pay for the cost of the war so far, about $40 billion!). It’s scary to think how seriously people take Fox News – they’re taking what I believe to be a minority viewpoint in this country and lighting a flame underneath it.
Mortie, Mortie: He's no shorty, Mortie.