to be honest with you one of the big reasons why i've not been paying much attention to the news is that it all seems to be bad news. seriously. something about the stock market, little girls being taken away from their families non stop, palestinians killing israeli's, israeli's killing palestinians, near nuclear war between india and pakistan. and i could get angry about it all, well, angry about what g.w. bush is doing in my name about it all, but i really don't want to get into it. my therapist is telling me i need to think positively (not in those particular words), and when i'm worried about what i'm going to do about money because i'm depresssed and then hearing that congress and the president have given the top 1% of the country a HUGE tax cut, its just not something i can really deal with on a gut level.. ya know? i mean, on an outside level i hear it, but if i internalize any more than i've got then it won't be a pretty picture. the line that keeps going through my head these days is some alix olson lines:

and it's a disgrace to be a rapist
of "developing" countries
when we can't find the rapists
of developing girls.

and today. when last night i saw 4 facecs on my tv screen of little girls that had been taken within the last weeks, they just seem so so so appropriate.

posted by brooke at July 27, 2002 04:16:00 PM