kirktastic

2009 is not starting out so hot. There’s the Israel/Gaza situation that makes me sad. There’s the continued shitty economy and friends are losing jobs — and thus I’m stuck in my unsatisfactory job so I have that to look forward to. Cops in California executing a young black man in a BART station. Thank god for video on cellphones or we’d never know.

I know the guy hasn’t started yet, but so far I’m not blown away by Obama’s new cabinet. Instead of change we can believe in, it seems like the Clinton administration redux. I know it is important to have experienced people in the cabinet, but fuck. What is the deal with his CIA pick? He was chief of staff for Clinton. Panetta would have been better for secretary of commerce, but he gave that to Richardson (who was better suited for secretary of state but he gave that to HRC). And Sanjay fucking Gupta for surgeon general? Really? Perhaps he’ll nominate judge Judy for the supreme court? I’m also just a wee bit concerned his big economic stimulus plan seems a lot like what Bush did. A five hundred dollar tax break and tax breaks for small businesses. I wasn’t expecting Obama to be superman about all this, but I did hope for it to be a little more than business as usual. I still shudder to think if McCain and that dipshit Palin made it into to office where we’d be. We’d be fucking fucked is where we’d be. And George Bush is going back to his until-eight-years-ago white’s only neighborhood in Dallas. He and Cheney should be going off to the Hague but that’s not going to happen.

Despite the negative nelly paragraphs above, I still am optimistic about 2009 and the future in general. Really. No, stop laughing. I really do.