Jaded

So anyway, the whole Mark Foley thing has kinda got me in a "blah" sort of mood. I don't know what it is really. At this point I'm thinking that they'd actually have to catch a Senator, in black leather chaps, in the act of sodomizing a small Central American boy, while sucking off a goat, in his office at the Capital, with an entire film crew taping it all for a Politicians Gone Wild video before it would even begin to get some kind of rise out of me. I guess the "game" is just getting old. That isn't to say I'm not slightly disgusted by the act. It's not so much that I care that the guy's queer as a 3 dollar bill (I don't), I'm mostly just repulsed that he chose to do it with a teenager. Point is, I just don't care...grossed out a little, but essentially indifferent. I read a couple of the transcripts online (since that's the only place the FCC will allow them to be presented), and yeah, I feel a little dirty now. It's actually kind of ironic and oxymoronic that a "scandal" like this is happening to a man like Foley (a gay/pedophiliac/Republican - what are the odds?! apparently pretty damned good...unfortunately!). Doesn't everything about this situation go against everything that these people supposedly stand for. Isn't it supposed to be the Republican credo that "homos are destroying the moral fabric of our society". This is making my brain hurt. Fact is, I'm more shocked by something I learned yesterday morning. Seems that the lovely young lady (actress Mercedes McNabb) gracing this month's cover of Playboy and featured inside in a rather attractive pictorial is none other than the same girl who played the Girl Scout selling cookies in The Addams Family movie (and the bitchy blonde priss from the summer camp in the sequel). That's where my spectrum of shock is at the moment...more surprised by neked hotness than political perversion. But I digress...

I mean really, let's face it, American politics has become a series of calculable scandals that pop up every four or eight years like some kind of Pervert Olympics ("next up in the 400 meter Coke Line Snort..."). Think about it, every time there's about to be a major demographic shift in Washington, a whole mess of shit gets thrown out into the public spotlight. In about six or eight years when the masses have grown weary of Democratic control in Congress (which is almost a guarantee come November), the Republicans will start popping up out of the cracks like rats fleeing a flood, with dirt on every left-winger in office. It happened with Clinton. Granted, sexual scandal dogged him for most of his administration, but the Republicans didn't really make a big issue of it until he had less than two years left in orifice...er...office. They jumped on it like starved rabid dogs on an old bone. What happened in 2000...come on, you all remember, Gore won the election but didn't actually become President and the moral right took control of Congress. Now that they've been comfortable for a few years, they're starting to fuck things up again shifting the public favor back to the left a bit...we're sheep...sheep I tell you!

Right now I actually find it more fascinating that one of the auto-flush toilets in the men's room on my floor is stuck in permanent flush mode. I figure we're waisting about 20-30 gallons of water an hour until a maintenance guy shows up after 8:00. Coincide that with the fact that we toss out about half a forest's worth of paper daily and I think this bank has officially become the single most destructive and eco-unfriendly company in the Kansas City area...maybe the midwest. Oh well...

I guess if there's one thing to get warm and fuzzy over, it's that the Monkey is officially bipedal. I'll get a picture up if this damn thing will let me; no go so far though...

I am getting such a raging clue right now...are you?!