2003-09-25 - 11:27 a.m.

I really should be doing work but…well I just don’t want to. Fuck if my students can be lazy stoner slacker fucks why can’t I?

So I realized that I’ve become a lot more political. And man is that hard to admit. I’d rather admit to having an addiction to European Historical Pornography than this. Of course everyone knows about my quest to find the director’s cut of “Debbie Does Dresden” or “Little Oral Annie at Austerlitz….”

Ahem. So yeah. I’m becoming a political junkie. I read the opinion columns, and laugh gleefully at the polls and break out the inner pundit in me and pontificate on 2004. Normally I avoid politics because it’s just so damn hard to get worked up over a candidate who isn’t the real thing. I like Clinton but really only in retrospect and Gore was the lesser of two evils. But despite myself I think I might give my heart to Clark.

You know I was a Dean guy for a minute there. The Doctor almost had be but then I found out he’s basically W, just smarter. And a lot shadier. And not Clinton shady, in that it’s harmless baby Bomer generation crap like he digs the chubby yet convenient office girl for a quick bj. Dean’s shady machiavellian, the shady that says “let me sell myself to the left as the outsider who opposed war but really I’m a manor born rich guy who skied through ‘Nam with a deferment and who’s really a semi-conservative.” The kind of shady that goes up to girls and says “You know I really dig Tori, ‘cause I’m a sensitive guy, not like those other frat jocks. You wanna come up to my room and listen to her CDs? And suck my dick?”

But he almost had me, if for no reason he was the lesser of two evils. And let’s be honest, no other Dem can go toe-to-toe with W and pull off a win. Lieberman’s too conservative, Gephardt’s got labor but nothing else, Kerry and Edwards have zero recognition (I can’t even place their faces), and the rest are just jokes. Spoilers looking to set themselves up as king makers or bucking for a higher rating in the party.

But now we’ve got Clark. Wesley Clark. Homeboy looks good. He’s not bullet proof but he’s damn close. He’s not perfect but he’s the best of the bunch. And damn if I don’t chuckle and get a bit of wood when I hear that if the election were tomorrow he’d be President Wesley Clark. I still don’t know if he’s the real deal. But I made the promise that if he comes to town to try and see him speak, even if it costs me a $50 plate of chicken. I hope to Christ that Clark the real deal. I’m getting tired of having to act like a closet lib. I want to retake the Bully Pulpit with guns blazing.

Or at the very least, I want my Euro History Porn.

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