I came across this picture. What is it doing out there, out here? Never mind that it is beautiful, and sad, and frightening, and Redford and Streep wish they could hit that note, what are we, the world, doing with it right now? How can this man tell the Israelis he promises not to take nuking Iran off the table if elected, a soulless and meretricious act in which the other front runners have also engaged, and turn around and smack us with this? How can any of them proceed to force us to engage with their thoughts and lives and carefully modulated utterances of total barnswaggle after swearing fealty to un-American deep pockets who mean harm to their neighbors? The right is not alone with its Grand Canyons full of hypocrisy. No. Indeed not.
How many Iraqi wives are dying of breast cancer while their husbands are abducted, tortured and killed because they dared to try to go out to get food for their families? How many Iranian breast cancer victims are spending their last time on earth worrying about the smoking gun that is coming in the form of a mushroom cloud? How many of them are garnering tens of millions for their audacity of hope? How many of them, innocent of aggression toward us, one and all, have the luxury of living our fucking murderously self-consumed lifestyles?
Why the hell is this going on at all?
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