Last Chance Cafe

This might be a good time to retire the blog. Yeah, I know, how will the world live without me?

But the political season is 'coming up,' and I'm already tired of it. The John Kerry video thing got me going for a minute, and a blog post turned article I planned to submit to the Spectator went well for 1500 words. Then it died a quiet death.

I went to Amigos last night and talked about it for a bit, and ultimately ran into a lovely woman who, even with intimate family knowledge of Vietnamese suffering after the war, couldn't wrap her head around Kerry's blithe dismissal of the event. She was more upset with me.

I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I need to block politics out, and blogging will only lead to more. I don't know why Kerry was the last straw, but I saw in his latest antics a naked ambition and blood lust that I've simply not seen clearly before. Call it naiveté.

Although I use Kerry as an example, I don't consider this to be about him, nor do I mean to single him out for any particular abuse. It's just time to reassess my take and decide if I want to let it go, or take it up a notch. I'm not sure if I have the stomach.

I'll be heading out to Costa Rica for a few weeks starting on Monday and the blog will go away at least for now.

Posted by petefredbob at 01:25 PM | Permalink

I got nothing. There's a ton of political stuff I've been reading about that made my jaw drop but I can't find the energy to care at the moment. It's too much, fish, barrel, etc. Crumbling, deadly infrastructure, news chopper and air show crashes, celebrity stupidity; it should all be fodder for an outraged or amused blog post. Still- nothing.

The only thing that at the moment is even close to being entertaining, or bemusing, is this photo from Reuters of Senator, First Lady of Argentina and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

The article it's attached to is entitled I'm No Hillary Clinton.

Article and photo just seem silly to me, and maybe it's my time spent south of the border that compels me to make the equally silly comment that Cristina is obviously hotter than Hillary.

See? Told ya' I got nothin'.

Oh yeah: Sean Penn- Hugo Chavez. Booorrrinnnggg. Have I lost my ability for self righteous outrage? Time for a nap.

Wait, I've got it! Caption contest! Let's start it off:

Argentina's First Lady Describes For The Press A Typical Night In The Presidential Palace

Posted by petefredbob at 01:14 PM | Permalink