11 september 1998		feeling ill a conspiracy of evil is afoot.
The quote of the day: It's the Age of Information, the Age of Inquisition, and the Age of Indifference. -- a commentator on Talk of the Nation Running news: 2 bad miles. I don't know what's wrong all of a sudden.		Darin is still feeling sick. He asked for the book of preferred providers today so that he could call a doctor, which means he's really not feeling well. Darin never wants to see a doctor, as he suffers from Masculinis Doctorphobia, a common disease related to the Y-chromosome. I'm not feeling so great myself. I have no energy for running--I even slept in this morning, despite sleeping on the side of the bed with the morning window on it. I got up and went running anyhow--at 9am it was 67F, which was very pleasant--but I didn't get far before I headed home. I'm also feeling ill about how my writing's going. The usual: I can't write, I can't tell a story, yadda, yadda. And I'm sick to my stomach over this goddamn circus being run in Washington. I resent deeply that the duly elected leader of this country is being kept from doing his job by this nonsense. We don't have a "vote of no confidence" in this country for a reason--we elect a guy to serve a term and there had better be a pretty good reason for him not to serve out that term. Getting a blowjob and asking the giver not to tell anyone about it isn't really what I'd call a reason to remove someone from office. 5 years, $40+ million, and the words "Whitewater," "FBI files," and "White House Travel Office" do not appear in Starr's report. And no one seems to be mentioning that. What really makes me nuts is that those on offense have managed to conflate in the public mind Clinton's shenanigans--lying about a private matter in a deposition for a civil case that had to do with matters ruled immaterial to that civil case, which was, of course, later thrown out--and Nixon's attempt to destroy the Constitution. (Of course, absolutely no one brings up Reagan's baldfaced lying to the nation about Nicaragua, the Contras, Irangate, etc., not to matter his attempts to subvert the Constitution.) And I'm this angry and upset just listening to NPR. I can't imagine how apoplectic I'd be if I watched the Big Three news programs every night. I wonder if the Supreme Court still thinks that lawsuits pressed against sitting presidents won't disrupt the business of the country.
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