I THINK MAYBE I MIGHT BE A LITTLE SENSITIVE THESE DAYS

As you all know, I'm a new grandfather, which on the face of it, heralds a new stage of life. A new person in the world and family, a new role for me to play as parent, and inlaw.
All families are different, I know we ( the we being Ann and myself ) are different. The other side of this family tree is different too. It's like that smoke you know is real, but when you try to grab it, it's not there. As a divorced parent, without custody, I was not always in the know...I was excluded from important matters on all levels until the shit hit the fan, and then it was laid in my lap...all my fault. This was proved false, thanks to a therapist who had her shit together and could see what was going on. I readily admit my failures as a part time parent...I've already done that, and put it behind me. But the shadowy family from a shadowy planet find themselves in a unique position of control, and I fear the same kind of bullshit played regarding my son will be repeated and refined regarding my grandson. Then again, I might just be being paranoid...but that's what I kept telling myself when Kyle was growing up, and it turns out I was way more than half right...so, go figure. I hope I'm wrong about this...but time will tell.
As it happens, I am more right about things than I am wrong...testament to my former career, and as far as that goes, I'm usually proven right after the damage is done.
And then there's the world we are all living in right now. It's a mess...war, disasters, political corruption and lies, a president who can't find his ass with two hands and a map and rove.
I can say with some relief, that I'm not one of those rat nibbled dead bodies in New Orleans, or some bloated waterlogged corpse pressed up against the roof of my attic waiting to be discovered by those relief crews that were more than a day and a dollar short in terms of response.
I haven't been blown to bits by a "improvised explosive device" on some road in and around Basra.
But I am treading water and dodging bullets because of the fallout of this administration's inability to tell the truth, it's centrist greed, and it's inability to spin the lies into something palatable. I'm choking on the bullshit, as so many others are. Lots of folks are talking about it, but so far nobody is doing anything about it. Talk is cheap...lets see some fucking action already.
Bush said there was no way to anticipate the levee breeches in New Orleans...LIE...the levees weren't complete when he and his slashed funding and diverted it to the war in Iraq.
There's a place to start...hammer on this obvious lie until they break ( and they would be the Bush administration, before any of you apologist neo cons dare to ask who they are ).
Just look at what's happening along the gulf coast of the united states of rich white america and ask yourself what would happen if there was another terrorist attack on our soil.
Two monkeys trying to fuck a football does not qualify as a response.
And that's exactly what's happening, and it disgusts me. And it frightens me. And it makes me jumpy.