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mamajoanAnother long, too-busy-to-journal weekend. The short version: Went to party Friday night. Stayed till midnight. Slept. Went to mom's, did laundry. Went to party Saturday night. Stayed till 3am. Slept. Went to mom's, vegged, went to thrift shop, bought clothes. In between bits of the above, managed to finish the transcript of last week's Buffy episode. Ugh. It's a lot harder to get motivated to finish the transcript when the episode blows. At least it's behind me now.
There's lots of else to say about the upcoming tour (boils down to: eek) and how much I hate my job (ooh, that's new and different) but instead right now I'm gonna rant about, uh, politics. Sort of.
See, I watched last week's episode of "24" tonight. And I was thinking how I would probably not want to vote for Senator Palmer for president, if he were a real person and really running. And then I thought about why that was, and it made me feel sad.
The thing is, you have to assume that this guy has been in politics for a while. He's a senator and he's running for president; it's not like he just decided a year or two ago to try politics. So, he should know how it works. And yet he continually displays a level of shock at the corruption he encounters, which I find hard to buy.
Am I just cynical? Is it wrong of me to not be shocked when, for example, we find out that the reporter chick was bought off by the shadowy bad guys? Or is it actually that the Palmer character is portrayed unrealistically, that he shouldn't be surprised? I mean, disgusted and resigned yes, but surprised, no.
I dunno. I'm not articulating it very well. I just feel like, Palmer is a character who ought to know the ins and outs of the system quite well. As a black man in American politics you'd think he would have been very careful to figure out the way it works, the intricate system of back-scratching, back-stabbing, and blackmailing that Washington is. He doesn't necessarily have to be a part of it, but he should at least seem to be aware of and familiar with it.
(Or else Washington isn't actually like that, and I've just been deceived by watching too much "West Wing." But I don't think so.)
There's lots of else to say about the upcoming tour (boils down to: eek) and how much I hate my job (ooh, that's new and different) but instead right now I'm gonna rant about, uh, politics. Sort of.
See, I watched last week's episode of "24" tonight. And I was thinking how I would probably not want to vote for Senator Palmer for president, if he were a real person and really running. And then I thought about why that was, and it made me feel sad.
The thing is, you have to assume that this guy has been in politics for a while. He's a senator and he's running for president; it's not like he just decided a year or two ago to try politics. So, he should know how it works. And yet he continually displays a level of shock at the corruption he encounters, which I find hard to buy.
Am I just cynical? Is it wrong of me to not be shocked when, for example, we find out that the reporter chick was bought off by the shadowy bad guys? Or is it actually that the Palmer character is portrayed unrealistically, that he shouldn't be surprised? I mean, disgusted and resigned yes, but surprised, no.
I dunno. I'm not articulating it very well. I just feel like, Palmer is a character who ought to know the ins and outs of the system quite well. As a black man in American politics you'd think he would have been very careful to figure out the way it works, the intricate system of back-scratching, back-stabbing, and blackmailing that Washington is. He doesn't necessarily have to be a part of it, but he should at least seem to be aware of and familiar with it.
(Or else Washington isn't actually like that, and I've just been deceived by watching too much "West Wing." But I don't think so.)
