Day: May 13, 2004

I am not truly a liberal. I am much more libertarian in political terms and actually lean a tad conservative in my personal beliefs. However I feel a tad more kin towards liberals as I am rather tolerant of people’s lifestyles and choices – something that does not go over well with the Republican Party. But since I see Democracy as one of the worst scams in man’s history, this is really neither here nor there.

I don’t have anything personally against conservatives in general, however lately I have been reading nothing but pure hatred and lie-infested doublespeak from the right. It has gotten to the point that I am beginning to despise the very though of someone support Bush or this damn war. As a matter of fact, as a even more accusations of prisoner abuse abound I find it difficult to even claim support of the troops over there. I’m sure a lot of them feel like they are doing the right thing and defending out freedom, but more and more I feel like I want no part of any of it… if that even makes sense.

This came up the other day as moronic debates over nuking the entire region started to rise up on the Eagles’ Message Board. It just sickened me. Unfortunately I was then foolish enough to read through some of the Bush – Cheney 2004 LJ Community. After going through many of their postings and comments I came to the realization that most of them were just outright ignorant bastards without an ounce of common sense or the ability to think on their own. It was like reading a debate written by 6 year-olds. I know it’s unfair to judge all Republicans, etc. based on the calibur of discussion that goes on at Livejournal, but it makes it very difficult to tolerate anybody when you hear the type of vitriolic, inane prattle that these hate-mongers spew.

Glad I got that off of my chest. For now I will probably try to avoid any type of political discussions, because if I hear another moron claim that Kerry actually supports Bin Laden, my head might explode. I’m just tired of beng angry…

The problem with music today is not the fault of the record labels or the radio stations or MTV. Sure, they can all be blamed for the giant cluster f*ck that is the industry itself. They can be blamed for keeping the price of CDs exorbitantly higher than they should be. They can even take the blame for keeping independent artists down while promoting far less talented pop singers. However, responsibility for the piss-poor quality of popular music lies squarely on the shoulders of a different beast: The Public.

It is in fact people’s taste that has caused music to drop so severely in quality over the past decade. And why do I say this now? After watching last night’s episode of American Idol it became painfully obvious. The unthinkable has happened, and the two most talented members of this year’s pool (the third having already been voted off in a controversy) wound up as the bottom two in this round. And in the end, frontrunner La Toya London was voted off. You could see the exasperation in Simon’s eyes, and Paula Abdul began crying at the realization of what this travesty meant.
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