Michael Jackson.

I'm not going to lie....I've been crying since I've heard. Can't get my mind right.

Tell me who I have to be to get some reciprocity.

My thoughts on Governor Mark Sanford's wife's predicament of being another political wife scorned:

She won't be the last. Right now, there are other elected officials, while committed to protecting marriage from homosexual whim and folly, are eagerly parking certain body parts into someone who isn't their spouse.

I have no names but they know who they are.

But what should one do when confronted with such rank hypocrisy and betrayal? Of course beyond releasing statements filled with religious piety and the therapeutic language of heartbreak.

Bawl over the reality that sometimes people can't comprehend what it means to be faithful in a marriage. Change the locks. Burn that motherfucker's shit. (But not in front of the children.) Most importantly, create an aural backdrop for the marital upheaval.

True, the institution of marriage has taken another heterosexual hit but it shouldn't be in silence. Because when it's too quiet is when the bitterest thoughts will pop into the brain. Is she prettier than me? Do you love her? Is the sex better? Does she not care that you pick your nose while watching TV? Or that you conveniently forget to flush the toilet? What? What is it that makes your lover so damn appealing?

See, it's just better to listen instead of thinking. A soundtrack for a scorned spouse.



Caught Out There - Kelis


Alanis Morissette
'You Oughta Know'
Are you thinking of me when you fuck her?


Lauryn Hill
'Ex-Factor'
Tell me who I have to be to get some reciprocity.


Billy Bragg
'Must I Paint You A Picture'


Amy Winehouse
'Tears Dry On Their Own'

Everything you need to know about Mark Sanford affair -- including a commentary [Pam's House Blend]

Today on The Hangover Channel....

Scene from My Best Friend's Wedding


The Hangover Channel features cheesy movies that push all of my emotional buttons. Run Fatboy Run is on the list, as well. Also features me lazing on my sofa wearing a negligee. Damn the bewitching elixir that is alcohol!

The silence is deafening.

Have the opportunists of ignorance and fear said anything about the terrorist who shot up the Holocaust Museum today?

Dick?
Sarah?
Newt?
Rush?
All of the hemorrhoids who spew their bile on Fox News? (except Shep Smith - he is calling the madness out but I wonder how he could keep going to work at Fox if he's aware of the toxic atmosphere it provokes?)

I wonder if any of those fuckers will have any honest commentary about a right wing terrorist who feels murder is the apt response to a changing society?

After the murder of Dr. George Tiller and this, what can these people say about the Americans who feel the Republican Party embraces and supports their hatred and fear?


Holocaust museum guards: 'Run, run, run' [USA Today]

Glenn Beck Spins the Museum Shooting [HuffPo]

The Far Right's First 100 Days: Shifting Into Overdrive [OurFuture.org]

Excerpt:

Somewhere back in February, about three weeks into the Obama Administration, everybody on the left suddenly noticed that there was something different going on with the conservatives. The outrageous screeds and paranoid delusions sounded pretty much as they always had -- but there was a new fury behind them, a strident urgency that hadn't been there before, and a very audible shift of the gears in right-wing behavior and rhetoric. None of this came as a surprise to veteran right-wing watchers -- we'd been predicting a bad backlash since the 2006 election -- but three months into the new administration, it's increasingly hard to ignore the fact that this ominous new trend is taking on a momentum of its own.

Pic via.

Song of the Day - 'Pretty Wings' Maxwell

Short film 'Ruminations on You and Me' mentioned on CNN.com and TheFrisky.com...

Your BFF 'unfriended' you-- now what?, written by Judy McGuire, explores the aftermath of breaking up with a friend.

And you can check out the short here.

quote of the day...

"I'm profoundly sad and I'm furious and I think the American people need to understand that we have a fascist movement in this country. We don't have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. They're right here killing abortion doctors."

-Dr. Warren Hern, a Colorado physician quoted in the Colorado Independent reacting Dr. George Tiller's murder, who is probably the only other doctor in the country - if not the world - who performs these late-term abortions, is understandably incensed.

"Pro-Lifer" Murders Doctor [Judy McGuire, Betty Confidential]

Quote of the Day...

Unbelievably, Buchanan compared Sotomayor to Harriet Miers, President Bush's personal attorney who was, in fact, not at all qualified to be a Supreme Court justice. Ever notice it's the Republicans whose "affirmative action" picks aren't qualified (as in Miers and Clarence Thomas)?

-Joan Walsh, Salon.com

Here's to the GOP spewing all of their hate load so that there's nothing left for the rest of the President's term.

Bawling...

Watching American Experience: The Kennedys on PBS and the doc features footage of Robert F. Kennedy's words when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. His words are so moving and heartbreaking. Where would this country be if both of these men lived?