The election's over and another spanking has been dished out. I'm going to seem like a bit of a narcissistic contrarian on this, but progressives around the country have been rejoicing over the past month...I'm not so joyous. Big surprise, huh?

Crumbs...we're getting all moist over crumbs. Let me just take a second and put all of this in perspective. All the crap going on with The War Criminal & Co...no one's in jail yet. Justice has not been served so chill. And if anything has been shown it's that these neo-cons don't care about public perception. The War Criminal will pardon everyone who has been loyal to him. That means, yes, these people will no longer be in governmental positions, but they're not going to jail and will just be going to lucrative jobs in the marketplace...still screwing you & me, but not using the government to do it.

Meanwhile, this anti-Bush crap in the media is just a passing phase...journalistic lemmings congratulating each other for finally doing their jobs. Meanwhile, countless people have needlessly died and billions of dollars wasted on their watch. Congratulations.

Then there are those in the lefty media...especially on the radio. You can virtually hear these people peeing their pants in delight over the administration's troubles.

[In an amusing aside: a couple of Air America personalities have actually started this Nader cost Gore the election crap again. It's amusing becuase both are entertainers who masquerade as news people. There's enough on the web to show these dummies that they don't know what they're talking about. Go here for a quick primer.]

My message to these folks is to stay focused. Nothing of any real consequence has happened to any of these people yet. Use this opportunity to work for real, systematic reforms. Right now, they're going on the air and writing articles that are just big na-na-nyah-nyah-na-fests.

Another example...yesterday's elections. Yes, Democrats seemed to have more victories than Republicans. And Arnie's ballot initiatives were all defeated. But again, this really doesn't mean much. Nothing was really gained, only stuff wasn't lost. Some of these radio folks have been begging for Al Gore to run in 2008 and literally saying how Clinton was a great president. Jeez, look how low the War Criminal have dropped our expectations. Look, I realize that a paper cut is not as bad as having my finger chopped off, but I don't want either one.

I haven't been much of an online presence (or offline for that matter) lately because I've been working on a friend's campaign for local office. Third party, of course. We easily had the best canidate of the three. The Republican was a classic follow-the-republican-herd guy. The Democrat was an embarrassment. The local dems should have run no one. We picked up endorsments all over the place, raised a ton of money, hit the streets like a mother. We ran a smarter, quicker, progressive campaign. Of course we got the crap beat out of us. People continue to vote against their own interests.

My reaction this year is a little bit different. While I've spent the last year or so overcommitted to this campaign and the result was not what we expected...I will never...ever give up the fight to change the system. I will never give these bloodsuckers the satisfaction. My strategies & tactics may have to change, but I will never stop. I will not be satisified with going back to a Clintonian World...I fought that as well. When all is said and done I will say that I did the best I could do make this world a better place.

Having said all that...I'm going to get stinking drunk all weekend. I'll save the world on Monday.

I promise more light-hearted faire is coming.