Fuck This Week
Quite a rant...
http://jezebel.com/fuck-this-week-476503887
Lindy West
Yesterday 6:00pm
Fuck This Week
snip//
We understand that this week is "bad" because a bunch of very bad things all happened at once. And we don't even know how to talk about it—let alone what we should do. And when we ask Congress, the people we've hired to do things, "What do we do?" their answer is "Oh, apparently nothing." The suspect who's still at large could go out tomorrow and buy another gun without a background check. And what can we do? Apparently nothing. And we encapsulate all of these things in the idea of a "bad week," even though, of course, people in other countries have "bad weeks" like this all the time, sometimes at our government's hands—yet another thing we feel helpless and guilty and confused about this week. And we're mad at each other for talking about it, and we're mad at each other for not talking about it. But it's not just a "bad week," is it? A "bad week" implies that next week is a sunny new week, a fresh start, and this week is closed. Over. But for a lot of people, life will be different, forever, starting now. September 11th wasn't just a "bad day." It was the first day of a different world. So fuck that too.
Fuck this week, and fuck all the other fuck-worthy weeks behind us and those still to come.
And with all those fucks out of the way, let's take a second to remember that people are amazing. People help. People do way more astounding, selfless, compassionate things than they do terrible, violent destructive things. Most people are good, and we also saw that this week.
In conclusion, WINE.
Fuck this update: Apparently this week was so bad I forgot to fucking mention that an Elvis impersonator MAILED POISON TO THE PRESIDENT. Fuck that too!!!
= new reply since forum marked as read
