Me: Gullible...

So on the way down from Kentucky, I had the pleasure of listening to Al Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Let me just say it was AWESOME! And it makes me severely saddened to know that I too fell for alot of the political bullshit that consumed the Bush administration.

Sure, I saw Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and I was shocked but still skeptical. But hearing Al Franken put things so eloquently in his book...well, I just might listen to it again on the drive back to Kentucky.

One thing really gets to me though; that these two guys seemingly have all kinds of commonsense and sources to back up there assertions, yet no one is listening to them. I don't quite understand. What's worse is that everything that they're reading literally has a source, often in respected media outlets.

And one of the other ideas is the rise of the "liberal media." It seems that the media is liberal because the conservatives say it's so. I don't condone alot of what goes on, but I truly believe that the media has a unique position to change the mindset of the people. In fact, this whole financial "meltdown" could be much better if people would quit calling it a "crisis" and acted like nothing was going on at all. But of course, that doesn't make for a sensational newstory...

Anywhoo, I'm gonna run for now; will write more later; just know that this shit is crazy...