Over the last 25 years, I’ve had it up to here with right wing meanness and stupidity, and so I laid into the guy verbally. It’s not my habit to pick verbal fights in public places, but I just had enough. I managed to shut the guy up, but was steaming for few minutes afterward, as my meal arrived. Shortly after, I was sublimely rewarded as a young couple – a handsome black man and a charming white girl – sat next to me. I wanted to thank them, for challenging the social norms in this country, but instead just smiled inside. The right winger walked away.

Even tuning out the campaign news (impossible!), there’s death and disaster aplenty this weekend. At a time when Americans should start riding trains again, 17 killed (as of this morning) in the head-on collision in Chatsworth, CA. Meanwhile parts of Galveston, TX resemble the Ninth Ward.

Is FEMA out of trailers? Are its trailers still emitting poisonous fumes?

I think it’s time to head over to the American Red Cross website, and make a donation. Later, gang.

Wait! There’s Mitt! He was in Houston for some secret rich-guys convention. Bush wasn’t invited, the money from all of the corruption won’t come in for a few more years.
Mitt’s trying to get his family out of harms way. He’s lashing his hound to the roof of his car, and, like Odysseus bound to the mast, the beast is howling into the wind. And the poor dog ain’t havin’ a great time either….

And if you’re not out, get out, now.
Hurricane Ike could be really, really bad.
On a related note, Maha is curious where all the fake Republican concern, I mean grandstanding is this time around.  I mean, during Gustav, George W. Bush staged a h…