Full Metal Lunchbox

 
I've been thinking since I got up this morning about how best to blog about yesterday's election.  So much to say.  So much to gloat.

One might think that I would be reserving my best "nyah, nyahs" for my humiliated republican friends.  But no, I can't bring myself to do that.  At least republicans (many of them, anyway) have principles they stick to, and I respect that.



The target of my wrath today is John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and all of you other "democrats" who stood behind Bush and allowed him to launch his stupid war.  This gloat is for you.

Come on, don't deny it.  Lots of you (I'm talking to the American electorate here) were originally for the war that has resulted in nearly 3000 American fatalities and anywhere from 70,000 - 900,000+ Iraqi civilian deaths (depending on whose statistics you believe**).  You believed Bush and Cheney and Rove and those other jerks when they lied and told you that Saddam had nukes and was partially responsible for September 11.

Come on now!  What were you people thinking?

Fortunately, judging from yesterday's results, you (the American electorate) have at least partially come to your senses and sent many of Bush's oil-loving, gay-bashing, women-hating bastardos on the run.

We have new democrats now who aren't as stupid as J. Kerry and H. Clinton.  Thank God.

Leading the charge is Nancy Pelosi, who is now poised to become the first ever female Speaker of the House!



So long, Dennis Hastert!  You can go home to Peoria now, duct tape your windows, and await further instructions!




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Ah, that felt good to get off my chest.

By now all of my republican readers have stopped reading and have removed my blog from their sitefeeds.

And my runner readers are probably wondering why they still read my blog at all.  But for you, at least, I have news.

Starting tomorrow I will resume my marathon training.


My motivation is Dean Karnazes, who as some of you know just completed running 50 marathons in 50 days.  One of Dean's marathon days was at Tecumseh, where he ran the same course I'll be undertaking with Shea next month at The Tecumseh Trail Marathon.



Dean writes:

Hardcore. ... Along with the 3,500 feet of climbing, most of the course was on technical single-track trail, with numerous stream crossings, hordes of logs and branches to climb over and navigate around, deep pocket of mud, slippery rocks, and gnarled tree roots hiding silently under thick canopies of fallen leaves.

The switchbacks were difficult to follow, and if you looked up for a trail marker, it was easy to stumble and fall, which many people did, including yours truly (multiple times, in fact). A lot of the runners were cut and scratched from falling or getting snagged on the thorny bushes that we passed through. I’ve spent some time on the trails over the years, and this trail run was as challenging as any.

Shit.  I'm nowhere near ready!

So tomorrow I'll be hitting the road again.

(And keeping my mouth shut about politics for a while.)



** The higher figure of 900,000+ civilian Iraqi deaths comes from an exhaustive study by the British medical journal The Lancet.  Some critics have contended that the stastical methods employed in the article might have produced an exaggerated death toll.  Others have suggested that the actual death toll is even higher.  I dunno.