the common cold

This shit kinda sucks. I'm sitting here, running on an amazing 2 and a half hours of sleep, school, family eating festivities and christmas shopping. Sometimes, I think about cursing god. But, jokes on you...

god isn't real.

I had to drop off a paper yesterday about the government. Not the cool part about the government where people get whacked, bulldozers plow through things in the middle of the night and dudes get beejs in the middle of, ya know, the most powerful office in the fucking world. No. This was the politics of pussies. Amendments, gerrymandering and ball-massaging. But, it was kind of important for several reasons. For one, it reinforced how I feel about the government trampling on what most people who have ever lived consider civil liberties. 2.) How no matter what we do for this country, this country very rarely reciprocates. It's the equivalent of taking a girl (ya know, or guy) out to a movie, buying them dinner, sucking on her toes and granting her the favor of killing her entire extended family (leaving the horse head in their beds first is optional), and then all you get is a goodnight kiss. I know what you're thinking. No, no ball cupping either.

Granted, one would not be pleased with such an outcome. And I can't blame them.
This is how I feel about America.

Now, a lot of people like to joke about loving America as if it's the latest Dane Cook joke they heard and it's so funny because he runs around and yells and he's kinda cute and shit. But I don't really think it's funny. We're all very fortunate to have been born in a country that has an extensive freedom that is unavailable in a lot of places. I can honestly say I love America, and most of what it stands for. But there comes a time when people need their country to listen to what they want. I may be a little late on this, but, ya know, shit happens.

That's why I'm so proud of what happened this past November. Electing a man like Obama is the closest thing to a revolution we could have without military intervention.

I lost my motivation to write this. Blogging is boring when nothing ever happens. It's antithetical to sit here and talk about things I don't even really know if I care about.

but hey. that's life.

EDIT: ok, a few days later, I'm revisiting. I'm proud Obama got elected for one main reason: He isn't a fucking tool. He has an integrity seldom seen these days. I don't care that he's black, and I'm not some wagon-jumping moron. I'm just glad that after 2 stolen terms, a legit guy finally won. I supported him before the primaries, when I first heard he was running. Yeah, he's from Illinois, but so are you and so am I. Last I checked, we're not the most corrupt of individuals.

But either way, America is not something to take for granted. It has been a breeding ground for some of the best thinkers, doers and inbetweens of anywhere in the world. While Japan is inventing electronics, the good old US of A is inventing ways to destroy other nations. And that's dedication. A dedication that, as a natural citizen, I can appreciate. Fuck the world, I live in America.

Straight up.