…and I’m not going to take it any more.

I’m leaving for a two week vacation, away from everything. My job, my apartment here in France, everything.

Why?

I have similar feelings to those expressed by John Cole (although I’d have to be at the point of suicide to vote a Nader/Buchanan ticket):

Sick Of It All

I am sick of the state of American politics right now.

I am sick of the arrogance of the Republican party and the impotence of the Democrats.

I am sick of people calling people traitors or un-American or anti-military or anti-Christian because they disagree with them on issues.

I am sick of everyone distorting everyone elses positions.

I am sick of the knee-jerk Bush apologists and the knee-jerk Bush attackers.

I am sick of people calling people pussies because they think chaining someone to the floor and forcing them to lie in shit for 24 hours is over the line.

I am sick of the Supreme Court consistently ruling against the individual.

I am sick of Congress passing inane and pointless laws.

I am sick of the disgusting spending.

I am sick of the assholes in my party who think they have an absolute and perfect view of truth and morality.

Read the rest.

I won’t add to his list.

Some self-labeled “conservatives” think that John Cole has “gone off the reservation” and is no longer someone who truly leans right.

Perhaps he (along with many others) hasn’t drunk the kool-aid that is infecting the right-wing with the same idiotic tendencies formerly expressed mainly by the posters to the Democratic Underground.

Symmetry is an appealing virtue in Physics.

The symmetry we are now reaching in our political “philosophy” (if it can be dignified with such a term, instead of “idiocy”) is beyond disgraceful.