DC Comics can fuck off.

Superman has always stood for truth, justice, and the American way, no matter where he went. The creators of the character and the comic were American and proud of it. They believed that the American way was the best way.

DC Comics obviously don't feel the same way. They're having Superman renounce his US citizenship. They're having him say he's tired of his actions being interpreted as US policy. Once upon a time, we had presidents who would have been willing to back his actions, and a country who would have been thrilled to export our concepts of justice and freedom for all.

Actually, now that I think of it, maybe it isn't DC comics that can fuck off. Maybe it's our current political class and politically active intelligencia that needs to fuck off. Maybe DC Comics is only reprehensible for bowing to the tastes of those groups, rather than the majority of their readers.

I don't know. I only know that DC has fucked up an icon of my childhood, and I'm really not sure how I feel about it.

Don't feel quite right about posting anything, this weekend.

I hope everyone has a great Easter, and hope at least some of you get a couple days off for it.

Congress

Last week, there was a huge stink about the whole budget mess. I love the way ASM826 put it—the debt is the mountain of shit at a cattle ranch, and the deficit is the load from the day, carried out to be dumped onto the mountain.

Congress can fuck off for using a teacup to remove shit from the deficit, rather than taking a backhoe to the mountain of debt. My GRANDKIDS won't be able to pay off what they're doing today. We went to war with the British over shit like this—it's nothing more nor less than taxing our future with no representation—and those fucknuckles are squabbling over what they want to add to the debt load carried by our descendants ten times removed.

A housewife could design a better budget, one that would have our soldiers in no danger of going unpaid. Nor would it treat the social security (mis)trust fund like a piggy bank to pay for treats.

So yeah, congress can fuck the fuck off for being the idiot going on a spending spree with other people's credit cards. And we the people can fuck off for electing them and handing them ours.

Chidren's colds

Both my kids have one. And they can fuck off big time (the colds, not the kids). When I get sick, I have the understanding that it's not that bad, and won't last that long. My son, however, has the worst cold he's ever had, is hoarse, and doesn't understand that he won't feel so bad forever. All my four month old daughter understands is that her little head hurts, and she can't breathe properly.

I'd rather be much sicker than I currently am than have my kids sick.

That, and grading papers, is pretty much all I've got, today. The floor is yours.

CCFTFO

It took my grandfather and uncle, but left my male genetic donor. Now it's taking loved ones from Ricki.

Cancer sucks worse than politicians.