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After a little thought I realized my last post wrongly blamed just Republicans. I even lowered myself to using their tactics by calling them names, i.e. collectively 'Repugs,' and in the specific cases of Prejean and Palin, 'morons.'

I suppose my first instinct was correct, that you guys probably don't want to read all about my wonder and shock and disgust in the first place, but I can't say I'll never do it again because I care, and I do get disgusted sometimes and let things slip; but I should've been at least fair enough to acknowledge that conservative (faux) Democrats are much of the problem, too, when it comes to getting anything worthwhile out of this health care "reform" effort.

I guess I just don't believe in it. I want to, but I just don't. To me, after having voted for Obama, after having promoted health care reform in various ways, what has happened merely clarifies just how corrupted and corporatized our system has become. It looks to me like the will of the people is not even a contender in the contest to run this country anymore, and when so many seem incapable of separating fact from fiction, and allow so many of the decisions that affect all our lives to be made in the dark, or behind closed doors, and so rarely hold the liars and criminals and corrupted political leaders to account even when they are caught red handed, well, maybe the people's will shouldn't be influential.

I suppose we all can hope that we can somehow continue to escape into fantasy indefinitely… but in actuality, I think we all know we can't, and if this means we'll have the corporations in charge from now on… well, let's just say Anya's altered reality of Cordelia's world without Buffy may actually look attractive one day by comparison.

That's right. I'm saying, if this is how things are going to be from now on, sooner or later, it will end badly. Very. For all of us.

But hopefully I'm just being way too negative. If you haven't figured it out yet, let me clue you in: I'm kind of a moody guy.

Back to the original intent of this post — mea culpa folks. Next time out, I'll try to talk more about Buffy.

With everything going on, I know I should have posted ere now. I've certainly had things to say, but short things, tiny little bursts, mostly of wonder and shock, with a little disgust for seasoning, and you guys don't want to read all that, do you?

I mean, I could say something about Prejean and Palin. I could say to them, it isn't some left wing media conspiracy, it isn't anyone trying to silence you or shut you up or what McCain and his folk did to you, it isn't about being beauty queens or speaking out against gay marriage or because you're women or any other notion that may come to mind.

You're just deluded morons. That's all it is. You represent the exact opposite of female empowerment, the exact opposite of anything that could be remotely associated with a blog devoted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Now Sarah, Carrie, don't give us that look. You know it's true. Er, well, being deluded morons, I guess maybe you don't.

And I could say that it was mostly idiots and sociopaths that took the reins of power as the Roman Empire fell, and that anyone in this country could seriously suggest Palin or Carrie (or George W. Bush, for that matter) for any political office — at least any national political office — ought to give us all pause about what lesson we might want to learn from that ancient empire.

And I could say I'm none too sure about how this health care reform is shaping up. It looks like the standard Republican playbook, i.e., if you can't kill it, maim it in the hope that it won't work once implemented; and then you can go home to your constituents and say, 'see, I told you that dog won't run,' without ever mentioning to their ignorant faces that it might've run, and even howled at the moon, if you and your party hadn't insisted on maiming it first.

And then I could mention that that is essentially what happened to the stimulus, isn't it? The Repugs maimed it as it moved through the Congress, and now their pundits come on the TV and post on their blogs that it didn't work? And then I could ask out loud, 'how many times are the Demos gonna fall for this? Will the Demos never learn?'

Or I could say that, y'know, maybe I don't know what's happening. That's very possible. Maybe it is worthy reform, or will become worthy before the end, and not just a give-away to the insurance industry, and maybe it's gonna work, and maybe if it doesn't work too well, the voters will still give the Demos another chance or two to improve it.

Yeah? I could say that. Maybe so.

Or maybe I could just forget all attempts at political relevance and just blog about Buffy. Yeah. Maybe I could.

Well that's coming soon.

I hope.