Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet)

Three words. Good. Forking. Grief. Are we QUITE certain this isn't SATIRE??? Oh, dear. Somebody had better slip some antidepressants into her coffee before she commits Hairy Kerry!

Hint:
It's just as bad to continually mock and bash your political opponents as it is to be enraged/depressed/psychotic by the Bush win.

I've seen the right be just as close minded and intolerant as the left - neither side has a monopoly on this sort of crap.

Andrew, did you read the article? If that doesn't deserve some mockery, I don't know what does. As for feeling pity, that wasn't mockery. I do pity that woman because she obvioulsy isn't all there. However, maybe I'm being too nice, maybe all she deserves is my revulsion and anger. You think? So, no mockery, just anger. Is that preferable?

Actually seen today in a newsgroup:

I find it interesting, and rather depressing, that half the country can be dissed in such a manner. This country is split with East coast and West coast voting for freedoms and Middle America voting from fear.

Because, you know, it's just fine to diss the other "half," the slightly-more-than half that formed the majority of voters.

Ith:

I dunno - I'm just over-reacting I guess. On a second read your post seems directed at Ms. Smiley, not the left in general. Sorry about that.

It's just really saddened me to see the smears tossed by both sides in the lead up to this election, and now in the aftermath it continues almost unabated. I'm having a Rodney King moment I guess.... can't we all just get along?

Jane Smiley's article is disgusting in it's close-mindedness. The claim that 58 million people are ignorant and/or religiously brainwashed and that's why they voted for Bush is completely disrespectful, not to mention downright wrong - and, you're right, deserves pity.

But then I contrast it to articles like Adam Yoshida's: http://www.adamyoshida.com/2004/11/four-more-years-aka-take-that-you-sons.html

That's no better. The right has no right to lash out the left like that either. Yoshida is a disgusting individual for writing that level of trash.

Anyhow - sorry for the misunderstanding.

Jenna, mind boggling!

Andrew, no problem :) Actually I have a dear friend who is as liberal as the day is long, and she's very depressed right now. However, she doesn't think I'm a brainwashed zombie becuase I don't agree with her. So no, I'm not angry at all liberals, just the ones that think I'm a brain dead moron Nazi.

Meant to ad: part of the problem is that if you keep turning the other cheek -- like I've tried to do -- and you keep getting smacked, you start to get a lot less tolerant. I'm lucky, I work with a bunch of people who aren't raving leftists. But I've heard stories from my brother and other friends, who aren't so lucky in their work places, that would make your toes curl. So I can understand why some on the right might be letting it get the best of them.

from the Salem, Oregon's online StatesmanJournal.com, 11-04-04...

ELECTION 2004
Kerry's loss leaves Democrats downcast

" [...] Only a few dozen Democrats remained past midnight. Many sat quietly, cross-legged on a floor littered with popped blue Kerry balloons. [...] "

Unbelievable....and ironically amusing.
Fear + religion....sorry that does not intimidate me either, so since I fall out of that "category", the explanation falls flat on its face ( Math major : if there is one exception to the "fact" the "fact" is not a fact! )

You know, that article is rather ignorant. To assume that people voted out of fear is a VERY flawed assumption.