Okay, we’re going to do this in two parts:

Years ago, a friend and I decided to travel through the South since neither of us had really seen much of it. We flew into New Orleans and drank in the French Quarter, ate crawfish, wandered through the streets of all the neighborhoods, saw a band play at a famous club, bought voodoo charms, and hang out in hundred year old bars named for Napoleon and pirates. The highlight of the trip was a haunted ghost tour we took at night. The tour guide, who could have been completely making it all up, took us around the city and told us all the various ghost tales. We half believed it all. It’s just that there’s this weird vibe to the city, like it was part of our world but not part of our world.

Then we took the highway up Mississippi to Jackson Mississippi for a blues fest. In a cotton field right near where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, we saw B.B. King and Little Feat with hundreds of locals. The next morning, we discovered the glories of Waffle House.

Now, it’s all gone.

Second part:

I’ve read that the latest polls have Bush’s numbers pretty much where they were when this whole thing started. Somewhere like in the low 40’s. His poll number on how he handled all this were around 45% which pretty much means that all those people who’d support him normally are there with him. Which raises this question: WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

SERIOUSLY, COULD SOMEBODY SCREW UP MORE? COULD AN ADMINISTRATION COME OFF AS MORE ARROGANT, MORE INEPT, MORE JUST PLAIN FUCKED UP THAN THIS ONE? WHAT PART OF THIS WHOLE THING COULD YOU APPROVE OF? THE BEING LATE PART? THE BLAMING OTHER PART? THE PHOTO-OP FAKERY PART? HOW ABOUT THE JOKING AROUND IN NEW ORLEANS OR THE JOKING AROUND BY HIS MOTHER? AND WHERE THE FUCK WAS CHENEY? NOW THEY’RE DOING THEIR USUAL LIES AND USUAL SPINNING AND THEY’RE TRYING TO BLAME OTHER PEOPLE. SERIOUSLY. HOW MANY TIMES CAN THEY FUCKING SCREW UP, BLAME OTHER PEOPLE AND GET AWAY WITH IT? ARE YOU EVEN READING THE NEWS?

I mean, I’ve been watching the news and watching the media actually rise up and show a backbone. I’ve seen the media clips. And I watched Keith Olbermann today drop his aloof ironic-self and lay into the President. Christ, even the reporters on Fox News have been getting uppity. I’ve even been reading the Republican blogs and have been enjoying the fact that they’ve been all kinds of depressed and in denial about it. Some of them have even been saying blasphemous things like "oh, maybe he shouldn’t have taken such a long vacation" or "Geez, that Brown guy sure is an idiot." But now even they’re starting to spin the whole thing "oh, it’s not their fault." Which raises this question? IS THE PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING?

AND CAN YOU REALLY LOOK AT ALL THIS, AT THE WAY THE POOR WERE SCREWED OVER AND THE WAY THAT ALL THE VICTIMS WERE PRETTY MUCH BLACK AND SAY "WELL ,THAT’S JUST THE WAY IT IS?" SHOULDN’T THAT BE TELLING YOU SOMETHING? YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON CLAIM RACISM EVERY TEN DAYS OR SOMETHING DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN THEY’RE NOT RIGHT A BUNCH OF TIMES. AND IN THIS CASE? OH, THEY’RE FUCKING RIGHT. DON’T YOU JUST FEEL LIKE ALL THE FUCKEDUPNESS OF THIS COUNTRY JUST GOT TORN AWAY AND EXPOSED FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE

IF THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS, I SWEAR. I’M SO FUCKING PISSED OFF I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF AND NO, THIS WHOLE POSTING HAS JUST MADE ME EVEN MORE STEAMED.

Don’t you get it? WAKE UP WHITE PEOPLE, WAKE UP!

All I can say is that it’s a really good time to get out of this country. And if I somehow declare myself a political exile in Germany, would anyone blame me?

Oh, New Orleans……