The News

There's very little that I want to comment on lately.  Partly it's the residual effects of a brief burn-out, but mostly it's the news itself:

BP/Gulf of Mexico -- both BP and the feds are botching the clean-up, Mary Landrieu (D-BP) wants an independent commission composed of oil executives to investigate (the WH backed commission has -- *gasp!* -- environmentalists!!), BP has enlisted local police forces to keep the public, and especially reporters away while they destroy the evidence (burning sea turtles?  WTF?  Sorry -- that makes me crazy, although apparently that's going to stop), which is not only unethical, but illegal.

The economy -- the G20 leaders, the Republicans, and Ben Nelson have decided that the way to fix the economy is to punish the people who had nothing to do with creating the crisis by gutting Social Security, refusing to extend unemployment benefits, and protecting the financial industry against regulation while directing federal spending, which could create some jobs and turn things around, to deficit reduction.  (Military spending, of course, is exempt, even though Secretary Gates wants to cut a few hundred billion from the appropriations.)  Sounds like health-care reform all over again.  Nevertheless, they see the light at the end of the tunnel:  they will finally have created the underclass they've been wanting all these years.

Gay rights -- don't get me started.  Obama gets a C-/D+.  Congress gets a D+.  HRC gets an F.

Is it any wonder I'm fed up?