Snark Is A Form Of Optimism, Right?

It’s been the sort of morning where PMS hangs on the horizon. I’ll just let you think about that and thank God you’re not living with me. Heh. The kids are oblivious, but the UnSullen, after shoving a cup of coffee into my hands, has found other things to do at a distance from me.

Wise, wise kid.

Let’s see…there’s this excellent post by Maggie Stiefvater (whose newest, Shiver, is now out, by the way) about How To Write A Novel. It is boiled down to: 1. Decide to do it and then 2. Put your ass in the chair and do it. She does go into more detail, but that’s what it, at bottom, is.

There are an amazing number of people who call themselves writers and, to put it simply, don’t effing write. Are there painters who don’t paint and musicians who don’t play music, too? I don’t know, I’m neither painter nor musician.

Moving on…here’s CE Murphy talking about healthcare. It makes me want to move to a saner country. I love America. I just hate the xenophobic idiots who are being manipulated into “teabagging” and other such stunts. There seem to be a lot of them, or maybe it’s just that they’re loud and nutty.

Hopefully these tactics by the right will cause a groundswell of opposition…but people are scared, and Republican wingnuts have always been better at appealing to fear. It’s where they live, and sanity and rationality don’t make much of a dent in this kind of hysteria.

Those darn cultural third rails.

*sigh*

I know they say optimistic women live longer. But really…I’m having a tough time with it today.

The Comics Curmudgeon has gotten me addicted to (of all things) Mary Worth. The current storyline, with a woman dealing with her emotionally distant husband by visiting Mary and reconnecting with an old flame who is now a skeezy (implied) porno-watching greaseball is making me want to laugh maniacally and projectile-hurl my cookies at the same time. Because, you know, couldn’t this woman DIVORCE HER IDIOT HUSBAND (who is only around one weekend of the month anyway) AND FIND A FULFILLING CAREER OF HER OWN?

But that’s not how Mary rolls. And the CC commentary is just priceless.

There. That’s as close to optimistic as I’m getting today: snark. It will have to do.

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Trolltastic!

It’s amazing how, with no real effort on my part, a troll will step forward and prove the point about fear and nuttery.

“Liberal” and “egalitarian” are supposed to be bad words now? Hm. Well, not to me. So thanks for the compliment.

*laughs quietly*

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