Some days you just stop and ask yourself ...... "Why do I even care? Why do I bother?"

[Stinky The Clown]

You can't actually do anything about it. You can't actually do anything to them. You're as big a deal to them as is an ant to an elephant.

They have us by the short hairs and we're powerless.

Even thinking about the world or national situations is more akin to masturbation than boinking.

Some days, it really does seem that just saying 'fuck it' is the healthiest course. Blissful ignorance at least doesn't raise one's blood pressure.

There is irrefutable proof that the motherfucker in the white house is a war criminal. Not in a hyperbolic sense, but in an actual, legal sense. Today we learn there is similar irrefutable proof that the lizard-like woman over at State is also a war criminal.

There is no doubt that the people elected to stand up to these criminals are ineffectual cowards or, worse, collaborators. Modern day Vichy.

The economy is going to hell and our standards of living are in free fall, but we give corporate welfare to the very companies that are anally raping us. We fucking KNOW what the game is ...... and all we can do is watch. Much as the citizens of Banda Ache could only stand and watch, knowing there was no place to run.

Yeah ..... there are days when it seems the only course a rational person could rationally plot is to simply sit down, turn on American Dancing with the Castaway Idols, open a beer, kick back, and just say "Fuck it".

Its kinda like what I have always imagined I would do if diagnosed with terminal cancer .....

Go back to smoking cigars, eating gargantuan amounts of wonderfully rich, fatty, unhealthy food, drinking really good wine, and flashing my middle finger at anyone who looks at me crosseyed.

Fuck it .... sometimes that seems the best prescription for what seems to be ailing you.

[karab]

1. feel it

I feel your frustration, brother, but you must remember we are winning one heart at a time. The repukes have all the money, but they don't have heart.

[Solly Mack]

2. I heard that

[Xenocrates]

3. Thanks for the Rant!

You needed to post that. Take a day off. Do something else for a change. Lose touch with the world.

And we'll be here when you get back. :)

[NMDemDist2]

4. sometimes. then I take a day or two off, decide that if I don't fight back

however weakly, I couldn't stand to look myself in the face in the morning.

But you remember in 11/04 I hid for several months, but here I am in the fray again

:hi:

BTW, off to the greatest page with you

[PetraPooh]

5. I know those feelings, I fight them nearly everyday. For you, they

lead to cigars, fatty foods, and the flipping the finger. For me it leads to thoughts of suicide. If I can't make a difference, why continue to breathe. So, yeah, take a few days off, remember, embrace, and wallow in the persons and activities that you love so you can remember that one ant alone makes little difference; but that ant bed of fire ants can take down mammals and devour their carcases in short order. You aren't alone, DU is only one proof that ant beds are alive and well. Join us again when you are ready.

[Arctic Dave]

6. Frustration is natural. But I couldn't quit. It's not in my nature.

I been in more then my my fair share of brawls that I knew we were out numbered but damned if I didn't go in fist flying anyways.