Thursday, April 20, 2006

I am throwing up a little in my mouth, as they say

No really, readers, I am. I've been meaning to tell you about it but I've been too busy feeling like death to bother. But we've just received a note from our fellow blogger R.J., at the Daily Blague, wondering if we are dead or moving to New Zealand or what, and also what we think of that paper on the Israel Lobby. I don't know what we think of that paper on the Israel Lobby, I haven't followed it very closely. But I do know what I think about headlines and leads like this, appearing (on Alternet, no less) in 2006:

Bush's '16 Words' Were False
By Jason Leopold, AlterNet. Posted April 20, 2006.

A newly declassified State Department memo provides the first hard evidence that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence in their thirst for war.
And it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth. It's like being stuck in that awful Groundhog Day movie, where everything keeps happening over and over again. Next week there will be an article about how it turns out the U.S. was torturing prisoners by making them masturbate for video cameras. Shocking new evidence! the headline will read. "We do not condone this depraved behavior" the new press guy will say. "The perpetrators will be tried and punished." If it weren't so grotesque it would be tedious.

Actually, everything makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth. Max puts his cologne on in the morning, and my stomach turns over. I climb the stairs and get dizzy and gag. Whole neighborhoods smell like nothing but rancid cooking oil to me. I feel comsumptive. I sleep twelve hours a night and it's not enough, I wake up drenched in sweat, I dream of nothing more than resting in my bed with a cool breeze and no strong smells at all, fed 12 times a day with plain pasta with butter.

It is shaping up to be a long, long 9 months. As my mother said to me the other day, "I've been through pregnancy and through chemotherapy, and they feel about the same."

2 Comments:

At 9:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmmm...if somebody every decides to torture me I sure hope it's just making me jack off! Oh hell, you can even videotape it if you want! Sure beats being put on the rack and whipped! God bless us all!

 
At 1:15 PM, Blogger max said...

uh, mr. wankster, you should note that we (the US, that is) have also tortured at least 30, and probably many more, people to death since the beginning of the Afghanistan/Iraq conflicts.

 

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