Fashionable despair. I've pretty much had it with fashionable despair.

I think we've all pretty much accepted that what's going on with the Bush group running all three branches of government is not very good.

I am tired to fucking death of watching cautiously centrist people hedge their Future Credibility by leaping on anything the left does that the right might get leverage with and pre-emptively beat it to death.

I am sick of the untouchable popular fiction that holds that all of this damage is being done for some perfectly sane and reasonable purpose that we just don't quite Get.

This shit is happening because YAF and the editor of the school paper and the football team and the cheerleaders and the radical fringe of the chess club have gotten together and they're running the school for themselves. They're not good at it, they're hurting people pretty much because they can, it's all going to fall apart on our heads and they don't give a fuck because they're Winning.

Worried about what your cool libertarian friends or your boss or the other associates will think?

Here, let me help you out with some easy street cred.

I'm a liberal. Fuck you.