Jealous much???? YES!!!!

WARNING! Harsh and perhaps unrealistic overgeneralizations to follow...

I cannot believe that school has already started... I am reminded how much I HATE THIS PLACE!!! (This place being Binghamton University). Perhaps it is all the mindless kiddies whose mommies and daddies pay for their lack of education (you certainly cannot call it an education that most of them are getting...).



Maybe I am just jealous...



I sit there during my classes listening to these little bastards talk and talk (about nothing I might add) and I wonder do they care AT ALL that they are distracting me so much that I cannot hear the lecture? NO! They do not and believe it or not, I think that may be what I am jealous of the most. Oh yeah, I am jealous that they are not, on the main, going so deep into debt that their grandkids will feel probably end up an endentured servant. I am of course envious of the fact that they, many of them at least, are young and have their whole lives to screw up, whereas I have already screwed up a good bit of my own... I am also jealous of the fact that they, again many of them, seem to have all the time in the world to waste doing whatever it is that moronic college students do... but perhaps the thing that I am the most jealous of is the fact that they do not care... about anything but themselves. Most of the little assholes seem so oblivious to everything in the world that is outside of their tiny little existence and, this is where the jealousy comes in, they seem to be much happier because of that. What I mean by this is that unlike my parents generation who at least in part seemed to want to change the world, the kids of this generation (I think we are onto Y... who the hell knows) seem to be totally and completely content to just keep screwing it up and as long as it doesn't affect them DIRECTLY in a way that they can understand they just do not care.



So they walk by us as we stand vigil against this illegal war of aggression and scoff at how we waste our time fighting a lost cause. The vast majority of them are absolutely apathetic to the injustices being perpetrated in their names all over the world.



That is what it comes down to, I am jealous of their ignorant bliss...



Well... at least I am able live with myself, but sometimes I wish I didn't see it all, sometimes I wish I was not so totally affected by it. Alas, that is not me and many close to me might argue that it is my passion (translation: overly emotional and dribbly), my empathy for others (translation: I care too much and have inside me a closet optimist), and my need to stand up for what I believe in (translation: am sick of taking shit from everyone) that they love the most. Sometimes I really think it is a curse... but, in the end, it is what makes me and keeps me...



As always,



The Ranting Dyke

PS To those wonderful college students who DO care and DO work for real positive change, I LOVE YOU! Please not think that this rant is directed at you. It is not!! The truth is that the only chance this world has for a reasonable future is you, in spite of the apathy and uncaring of your contemporaries, PLEASE keep up the good work!!

Time keeps on slippin....

OK... Well I am not going to promise this time to keep up with my blog everyday or anything but I think I have to at least make some kind of an effort. With everything that is going on... STILL... it seems that I would be remiss not to at least pipe up occasionally and maybe even share a little of what has been going on in my own life.

For all of you purists out there I can hear the groans and cries of "asimilationist" already but you can just shut the he11 up!

I GOT MARRIED this summer!!!

And NO NOT to a man... although my honey is one of those "Secret" women... you know "Strong enough for a man but made for a woman" LOL!!!

Enough silliness though, there are a lot of reasons why we did it, perhaps most importantly, it turns out, is to get a chance to celebrate with our friends and families, a chance to become "part" of thier community... (more on that later). For now I will say that this Bridezilla did NOT kill, mame and or otherwise torture anyone... (I know somewhat disappointing) and the whole day was actually a wonderful day!

I will talk more about that later though, for now I want to just say one thing... MAN it feels good to be a second class citizen and all those stupid fuckers who cannot bring themselves to think homos and marriage in the same thought need to just get the hell over themselves and finally admit that "seperate but equal" didn't work the first time and chances are it won't work this time either... so much for hindsight being 20/20!

I think I will stop there for now, I have to walk the dog and deal with the Terminix guy who will be knocking at the door in just a minute...

I promise I will post a few pics and get to more of the details about the wedding later!

Long time, no rage?

Recently I was reminded how important speaking out really is in this most messed up world we are living in. There are simply not enough voices raised in outrage. I have been absent from posting because of many other activities and responsibilities in my life. I however, received an email the other day from a fabulous dyke who encouraged me to get back in contact with the part of me that needs to take aim and tell the world about some of the bullshit that is going on right underneath our noses. I am going to try to add a permanent link to her blog although I am not sure yet how so for now here it is for cutting and pasting.

http://halfkrackedkup.blogspot.com/

There is a lot there to love so please make sure to check her out!

I will just say here how sorry I am to those other folks out there who feel like no one is listening. I guess that is part of the reason I stopped. It was that and being busy certainly. After all, I have been working, going to school full-time and working with a local political action groups and we have been busy trying to educate and illuminate. For those of you in the Southern-Tier of New York state, here is a link to that page (keep in mind it is in its infancy and will be updated and renovated soon!

http://sunybpi.org

I really got depressed after the election. It was as if a part of me had died. I began to think it was all in vain that no one was listening and that everyone had already been turned into mindless automatons who were at the mercy of the corporate backed treason that passes for government in this country. I decided to turn what little energy I had to the above group (BPI) otherwise known as the Binghamton Political Initiative. We organized a lot of forums aimed at educating and encouraging discussion within the university where I am a student and within the community at large. We have been very successful especially given that this was our very first semester. I am proud to say also that due to the efforts of our group and its members the illustrious Noam Chomsky will be coming to speak at our school next year so of course I am giddy. I suppose all the hope that I tried to surround myself with here in the little safe bubble of a blue-state called New York served to keep me sane but also somehow silent.

NO MORE!

Yes, I still have rage and it is time it reawakened in me. Because the world did not end when Dubya got re-christened the crown-prince of Jesusland, although I really wondered if it wouldn’t. Things are not all doom and gloom and there IS hope as long as there are people speaking out and doing their parts to educate and illuminate the minds of the ignorant masses yearning to think freely all cannot be truly lost!

Thank you, Julie, for re-igniting the fire underneath my tired ass! I am back to rant another day!!

So watch out morons, religious-nuts and republicans because once again,

I am,

The Ranting Dyke

Say WHAT????

Okay, I thought I had heard it all but this takes the cake. I actually watched Dubya say in a press conference that this election had given him political capital which he intended to spend!

This is a lesson for Mr. Bush:

Barely eeking out a very slim victory (which is still suspect if you ask this ranting dyke) does NOT constitute political capital!
When 60 MILLION people in a country DO NOT think you should be president you are not invested with anything but LUCK!

I suspect it may be a case of investment in Diebold... I smell VOTER FRAUD!

OK enough on that for now...

As always I am,

The Ranting Dyke

Batter Up!

I have broken down and decided to post some of my innermost annoyances. I guess if anyone else wants to share them with me then that would be great because sometimes I feel like I am the only human paying attention.

Lesson #1:

THE WORLD IS FULL OF MORONS!!!
Reference the re-election of George Dubya, and the fact that no one in the rest of the world seems to mind that too awful much.

I think once the world really soaks this one up they are all going to be panic stricken. This time it’s not just the folly of us 'stupid Americans’; we are all going to be paying on this note for YEARS to come.
I am hoping that all over the US for months to come there will be reasonable human beings waking up from their Dubya induced haze of temporary stupidity to realize they may have indeed doomed us all. I am painfully curious to see what happens but I am also terrified.
Obviously I am not a fan of God-Boy (for those of you in the world who do not know what a messiah complex this guy has got let me fill you in).

Lesson #2:

The 'leader' of the 'free' world thinks he was called by God to be president of the United States.
(Most likely this is for the purpose of leading the world gleefully toward the end-days...)

Whether he actually believes this no one can truly say. If he does... then may God help us all! The irony of this is that the last guy, here in the US that thought he was sent by God, was killed by our government when they raided his compound in Waco, Texas.... hm.... Texas... they do say that everything is bigger in Texas. They sure do grow their Wacos, (pardon me) WACKOS, to be big fat pains in the ass!
One thing that is bothersome about this is that he has not been silent about his beliefs, even here in the USA where we are supposed to be protected from the institution of a state church. He has said these things during press conferences! IS NO ONE PAYING ATTENTION????!!!!! Am I the only one who finds this distressing???
The worst thing about Dubya is that HE is the yardstick by which all Americans are measured! I am utterly distraught by this fact! Am I alone?

Well that is enough for right now. Until later….

I am,

The Ranting Dyke