At least I know why I'm feeling like this

We're not sure what it's supposed to mean either.

So I've been angry a lot lately. Not angry at my friends or my life or any of the things happening in it. Things are fine there, really. But I"m wandering around with a ton of unfocused rage and it doesn't want to go anywhere.
Here are some of the things I am angry about:

Craven, Invertebrate Democrats
Lying whores using government to destroy hard won social progress
Our media
The vilification of hard working teachers
Class warfare against public employees
Anyone who takes the idea of Tea Partiers seriously and without realizing they are the same 29% that had Bush's back all the way till the end
Michele Bachmann
Tired arguments from right wingers about how we 'can't afford' things after they've just cut taxes on the wealthy again
The cancellation of Terriers by FX (I'm still getting over that one and it's going to take time)
Our media
Uninformed jackasses

Trust me, there's plenty more.

But the unveiling of the latest Republican atrocity did me in. I'm speaking, of course, of the attempt to destroy Medicare and consign senior citizens to inadequate, overpriced insurance in the name of budget balancing. It's a lie from start to finish and is only about destroying one of the most successful government programs in existence.

The plan was introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, the right's new darling, and it pledges to end Medicare within 10 years and replace it with a voucher system to purchase 'reasonably priced private insurance,' leaving seniors completely at the mercy of said private insurers (not to mention on the hook for any cost increases over time). The fact that seniors will be unable to purchase reasonably priced insurance apparently hasn't occurred to anyone.

Anyway, Paul Ryan in 2010:

Now, when you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does is treats Medicare like a piggy bank. It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare not to shore up Medicare’s solvency but to spend on this new government program.

Yes, that's Paul taking President Obama to task for making cuts to Medicare---the same plan he wants to eviscerate and destroy.

The world is fun that way.

Now I could seethe quietly or just rail at Ms. Round Guy about the state of the world (and she has had to listen to lots of it lately), but I sense she's getting tired of it and, besides, she's in a constant state of outrage lately as well (see note above regarding teachers). It's not good.

So I'm reassessing my options and I've decide to reopen this little web portal again for a bit, to vent about the nonsense surrounding me daily, politically and otherwise.

I thought I'd gotten past it, that our country had perhaps finally gotten past it, but if the events of the past two years have shown anything at all, it's that people can always find a way to disappoint further.
And that Republicans are lying, fucking scumbags who care only about lowering taxes on the wealthy and fucking over the rest of the people. Oh, and that Democrats are their chief apologists (maybe right after the media) and will do anything to look bipartisan, especially if it involves selling out to the people who elected them in the first place.

So, we're open for business again, not that I expect it to make any difference to the world at large (even blogs with readers don't affect things much, so I'm not sure what this might do). But I've got to do something, so I guess sporadic ridicule and an intermittent finger pointed at some of the most egregious nonsense is what I've got.