Finally, the long, strange weekend is over. It was strange and long.

John Kerry has picked John Edwards as his running mate. Good. Edwards seems new. People like new because it's exciting. Kerry seems old. People like old sometimes because it makes you think they're wise.

I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend. I liked it, but it was also preaching to the choir. There were a lot of new things in it that I didn't know. For one, the name of Bush's friend on his military records. I believe it was Bath. The White House, for some unknown reason, blacked the friend's name out. It turns out that the Bath fellow is the guy who handled the Bin Laden Family money. Bath is also the guy who has bailed Bush out every time he's run a business into the ground. And do you want to know how much Saudi money is in the US? Enough for their building in Washington to be guarded by the Secret Service.

Follow the oil. From a pipeline through Afghanistan to the second largest deposit in Iraq, there's a huge trail of oil.

What bugs me a lot is that sometimes I think the people in charge think like this: if war brings up a natural gas and oil pipeline through some countries, makes the second largest deposit of oil available to us, or brings another Democracy to the middle east, then there's really no harm in killing a few innocent people and lying to the entire world. And by innocent people I mean Iraqi civilians and US, English, Australian, South Korean, Mexican, and Japanese troops. Yeah, we'll bring one really bad man to justice. But there are a lot of bad men in the world. Hello, North Korea and Cuba!

You know they impeached Clinton for lying about what "is" means. "Is" was oral sex. I'm pretty sure what Bush has lied about, weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, is like anal sex. Ever since he took office (he wasn't elected), he's been giving it to us up the ass.

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