I would swallow my doubt turn it inside out find nothing but faith in nothing

Am feeling oddly defeatist, and even a bit nihilistic, about the whole Sandra Day O'Connor thing. I keep reading stuff like "What You Can Do to Make Everything Okay", and I'm not sure there's anything anyone can do. Write to your Senator, join groups, protest, yadda.

It seems to me that George W. Bush is pretty much omnipotent these days and he's gonna put whoever he wants in to replace Justice O'Connor (who isn't exactly a granola-crunching Liberal herself). There's still the Nuclear Option, after all, if Democrats don't like his choice.

If you find my idealism somewhere, would you send it back to me? I seemed to have lost it. Or maybe someone came and stole it while I wasn't home. They can do that legally, now, after all. Rickafracka Patriot Act.

Bleh.

And I really wish I could have gone to Live 8, yes, I do.

G.U.L.P. v. 21

Underwater Light, chapter 21. I haven't read it yet, as alas, I am not home. Go forth and read the lovely thing.