Since I'm an equal-opportunity curmudgeon, a comment about protestors from an anti-war friend of mine in San Francisco:

What pisses me off is that most likely fewer than half of the people you see in all these protest marches voted in the last presidential election. I have zero respect for people who protest and don't vote. I hope 4 years of Bush will convince radical lefties that an unexciting center-left democrat will be like re-electing JFK after 4 years of this clown. All those people who told me 2 years ago there was no difference between Gore and Bush so there was no point in voting need to suck my left nut.

I'll agree with that, even though I voted Nader. (Hey, I did so in Massachusetts where it doesn't matter if you vote for Bill the Cat -- the Dem will win those electoral votes). For 2004, I'm going to campaign hard for whoever our Democratic choice is, even if it's someone repugnant like Lieberman. 'Course I'd prefer Howard Dean.

More fuel on the I-hate-everyone fire: the anti-war email forwarded to me by a friend which links to a website mentioning "George William Bush." Nice credibility there, doves. (It's "Walker," for the record.)

I'm not saying I'm pro-Iraq-war. But it would be nice if the left got its shit together at some point in my lifetime. And yes, I'm going to start doing something about it again as soon as I get out of Geographic Transition Mode and can commit to Dean in 2004 in L.A.