Ms. Geek: Straight Outta LA

Know this word: Hikikomori. Read up on it. Read up on the "Lost Decade of Japan" and the "Lost Generation of Japan." Because the pattern there is about to repeat itself here. I will expand on this later. Meanwhile, this realization is what is keeping me up with a bad case of insomnia. Because it's terrible. In all senses of the word.

PS: Khruschev once said, wrt nuclear war, that "The living will envy the dead." Richie succumbed to multiple myeloma in March of 2008. The crisis that marked the final collapse of the American bubble economy happened in September, 2008. Dude, you picked the right time to check out if ever there was one.

I just gave everyone health care and brought the troops home, and lowered the deficit in the process! Go me!

In a feat that no Republican senator could probably duplicate, Senator Al Franken draws a map of all 50 States...FROM MEMORY.



I love this guy.

Ok, here it is, for all of you who are going to schools where the Republikaaners and Teabaggers have forbidden you from hearing it. THE SPEECH.

Full speech behind the LJ cut! w00! I dare you to look!
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I've been too busy trying to help prevent THIS from happening:

They fuck up someone's car.



Liberty? What's that? Speak your mind and get your car thrashed. Wonderful. Well played.

(reposted from DailyKos, where I'm Pris from LA.)



I always bring the flag (13 star Betsy Ross from the Bicentennial...embroidered, not silkscreened...very cool) whenever I hold the Single Payer Happy Hours. I fly it proudly. I'm a liberal American, this is my goddamn country, and you punk ass wingnuts better learn to SHARE. Didn't your momma tell you? Didn't your frakkin KINDERGARTEN TEACHER tell you? You SHARE this country with your fellow citizens. I was born here, I was raised here, and the HELL you're going to tell me that you have exclusive rights to Old Glory.

My great uncles, one of whom was born in the shtetls of Berdichev, Ukraine, one of whom was born in Chicago, IL, stormed the beaches at Normandy. They fought in the freaking Battle of the freaking Bulge. They liberated DACHAU. They were proud of their country, and when the '60s rolled around one of them marched in anti-Vietnam War rallies because he did not want his son and daughter (my cousins) to have to go through the same hell he did in WWII.

My dad was a native born Californian who served in the Army during the Cold War. He was a Goldwater conservative who had his heart broken by Nixon's criminal behavior. My mom was a JFK liberal who kept a "Viva Bobby Kennedy" button in her jewelry box until the day she died. Yeah, I took more after my mother than my father, but no matter how much Nixon broke his heart he never broke faith with his country. And I guess that little part of him still lives in me.

My country. I'm willing to share. Hope you are too, because if you aren't, you're not going to steal it from me again like y'all did in 2000.