Morford - Be Thankful You're Not Dubya

[realFedUp]

(thanks always for your juice Mark)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/11/26/notes112603.DTL&nl=fix

Be Thankful You're Not Dubya
Craving more juicy reasons to offer up profound gratitude this T-day? Try a few of these

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

(Beginning of column is a great read but I like #13....)

Here is the big cliché. Here is the final praise. It cannot be overstated: Despite an impressive assault on civil liberties, despite savage BushCo attacks on everything from national forests to air quality to rivers and oceans and water quality and health care, despite attempts to numb the national consciousness overall, we must give enormous, unfettered thanks for this incredible and kaleidoscopic America.

Ours remains the most breathtakingly beautiful, diverse, epic, multifaceted, multiorgasmic landscape on the planet today. It's true.

We tend to forget. We take for granted. We presume it must be like this everywhere. But one quick trip abroad will only serve to remind you and reinforce your devout appreciation for what this country can offer, the free expression and the religious autonomy and the clean water and the good dentistry and the fresh produce and the space to explore.

We are deeply flawed. We are massively arrogant. We are bratty and insolent and abusive and sloppy and violent. But we balance it with astounding acts of love and beauty and art, nature preserves and activism and organic awareness and sex positivism and community awareness and quiet personal spiritual questing and lots and lots of great bookstores.

[mikehiggins]

1. To save it, Dubya must go n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Calling WillPitt !! Calling WillPitt !! Your name is mentioned. . .

in item 11:

(snip)
11) Molly Ivins. Gore Vidal. Michiko Kakutani. David Foster Wallace. Don DeLillo. Maureen Dowd. Caroline Myss. W.G. Sebald. Tom Robbins. Starhawk. William Rivers Pitt. Rob Brezny. David Attenborough. Dave Eggers. Joseph Campbell. Lewis Lapham. Haruki Murakami. Katha Pollitt. Et al. Thank you.
(snip)

Way to go, man !!

:kick:

[Wetzelbill]

3. hey, yeah he is mentioned

that's pretty cool.

[bloom]

4. Thanks to Pitt, Thanks to Skinner, Thanks to all the protesters n/t

[CheshireCat]

5. and to all who take action to make a difference

in this world according to Bush.