a tunnel of its own

well, i'm avoiding dealing with all this crappy news that's everywhere.  the terminator as a political reality.  the unceasing need to spend money looking for nonexistent WMD.  more GIs dead in iraq.  but i can't help it.  denial or not, i know it's all out there.  thank god for mark morford.  i showed you the path, a couple of posts ago.  too bad if you didn't take me up on it.  great rant on the arnold situation in today's sending from mark. poor guy actually lives in the state currently at great risk of a ludicrous election result. the truth, however, is that the whole country will have evil repercussions if this republican stage-managed coup actually takes place 

in his newsletter mark also includes a nasty little news item on something that's hard for me to wrap my mind around.  the fact that the ultrareligous ultraright actually considers the issue of same-sex marriage (hereafter to be known as SSM) to be the number one social issue in the country for the 2004 election.  in a country where: jobs daily disappear down the toilet, millions of children have no health insurance and therefore little or no healthcare, old people have to decide between food or prescription medicine, where immigrants live in fear, where racism still reigns supreme in so many ways, pollution and planet-trashing run rampant, our basic civil and human rights are in deep danger,  these people think queer people LOVING each other is the #1 social problem?  from a woman named sandy rios, president of "concerned women for america" this quote:  "this is the very underpinning of civilization.  if we remove those foundations, our entire civilization will come crumbling down."  these women need to maybe start showing some concern about the fact that civilization won't have much longer to exist anyway if the USA continues to multiply our WMD and to destroy the air, water and soil our offspring will need to maintain their very existence.  get a grip, sandy. get an f'ing grip.