smacky and bucky

I've been sort of sad and angry and depressed all at once the last three or four days. I guess I just have "liberal frustration." I've been pissed about the government, so fucking sure that "success" in Iraq is just around the corner, if we could only pour a few billion more dollars and maybe a thousand or so more young men into the mix. Then a middle eastern country will do something it's never done in its entire history: It will embrace the western ideal of democracy. What a crock of shit. A democracy surrounded by...

OK. See? See how thinking about it can just set me off? I surprised myself by getting a little weepy eyed when I tried to explain my mood to Laura.

I feel a bit better today after snuggling with my honey, some good Chinese food, and a Wonderfalls marathon.

There's a reason I usually choose the cartoons over the news.