My Opinions, Short Form

1) Paul Ryan - *hysterical laughter*  
Smirking motherfucker is the shape of the inevitable future, those fucking ears and all.  Of course, there is a chance that the money follks really are in up to their necks and if this doesn't pay off the whole thing is going to come undone.  My vote is pretty much riding on that outside bet.  If I had a time machine, I'd be willing to risk all of causality to end Ayn Rand.  Actually, I've felt that way since I read "The Fountainheadm,"  so Ryan doesn't really change that.

2) Voter Suppression.  We're not getting a country back until blood runs in the streets.  Even then, we're not getting a country back. 

3) Julian Assange.  I repeat myself: I look forward to the day when all allegations of sexual assault are prosecuted with such vigor and interest.  Except that's not really being prosecuted anymore, is it?  It certainly doesn't seem like it.

4) Pussy Riot.  Fuck you, Putin.  I know you're reading this, because it's LJ.  Fuck you with a garden weasel.  I mean, eventually, we're going to get a Putin of our own, though we may never know his name or what his face looks like.

This is why I have been off LJ for a while.  I see no good coming; indeed, I'm starting to think that human extinction due to environmental degredation as a net positive.  Not as fast as a space rock or Yellowstone blowing, but it'll serve.

Or ice.  That would suffice.