Whenever I start to hope, I start talking to people at work.

[Tyler Durden]

And then I go into anxiety shock.

I mentioned the Cheney/Leahy incident, and the consensus was that there were a LOT of Democrats that needed to be told to fuck off. There are a LOT of people in the plant that feel that way, along with three or four genuine Liberals and a trainload of "I don't vote. I just don't get involved with politics at all." Low voter turnout becomes less of a shock over the years.

This November MAY just be the end of life as we know it. Could just happen

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. I'm feeling hopeful

After seeing F911 tonight, with a packed house applauding like mad near the end, I'm feeling more optimistic.

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. David Denby said something...

... in his New Yorker review of F9/11 that keeps making sense to me:

Bush, as people used to say of Nixon, has made a shrewd assessment of the lack of virtue and curiosity in the American public. A lot of Americans still admire the ignorant, smirking, chest-out, crotch-forward triumphalism.