My country 'tis of me.

I haven't been able to post a blog in ages due to having too many things on my schedule. Too busy doing things to reflect on them. But the present situation with the upcoming election is motivation enough for me to take a few minutes out of my busy schedule to rant against idiocy in the modern era.

So, suffice it to say this is an editorial blog. My opinions and no one else's.

I am sick of the press. Sick, sick, sick. Hi, Mr. Reporter: Cram it. Stop giving me your editorials cleverly disguised as "breaking news." Call them what they are. Everything from subliminal messages to outright propaganda is turning up in what is allegedly our fair and unbiased news media. And I wish they'd just come out of the closet if they're campaigning. For either side. It will never happen, though, because the assumption is that the American sheep people are too ignorant and naive as a whole to realize when they're being handled. As for me, I'd rather listen to a proponent of another party's candidate rant on openly for hours than be subtly inundated with political "news." Just my own preference.

Perhaps a good, succinct commentary about the state of affairs here in the land of the free would be what happened at my house the other night. My husband put a couple of campaign signs in our yard-- for which candidate is irrelevant to my point-- and they lasted a mere 5 days. 5 days before someone came along after 11:00 PM one night and removed one... and BURNED the other. Burned it. Lit it on fire. I wouldn't even have known about this were it not for the blue lights of the police car outside my house. Some youngsters driving past had grabbed the fire extinguisher out of their SUV and put out the fire. Thank goodness. But, yes, the sign was burnt to oblivion. But this was not likely a political act. It was the act of misguided youth with nothing but too much free time and a lighter. While they may be supporters of the other party, I doubt that would even be relevant and it's hard to imagine them taking the time to vote-- even if they are old enough. So here in this country right now we've got people who are interested in the election... and we've got people who think staying out past curfew and burning stuff is righteous cool. We're all one big happy family, aren't we? And with all due respect to Senators Obama and McCain, I don't think either one of them is likely to make much of a dent in the social, economical and corporate idiocy going on everywhere right now.

We are all going to vote for the candidate we think will best further our own agenda-- whatever that might be. Some of us won't vote at all because our agenda might be furthered by doing nothing. We will choose based on race, religious views, economic policy, foreign policy and other criteria that are truly about what WE want. And who knows what will come of the result.

But when it's all said and done, we're going to go back to our lives and do what we want. All in spite of one another. But let's just call it what it is: every man for himself.