Bad, Bad political Junkie!

I skipped the State of the Union address tonight.

I did it deliberately, and I don’t care.

In fact, I have decided that I pretty much don’t care at all, anymore.

I surrender.

I’ve got more important things to do than snicker and froth at the Head Pig.

I know already he’ll piss me off, and that I don’t like him and don’t trust him.

When I say I surrender, I mean just this: the battle has to shift elsewhere. If the things I love are going to ultimately survive, they won’t survive because we elect a Democrat, wrest the Congress from the Republicans, defeat the Christian right, or forge a new relationship with the UN.

So, I surrender that formal battle to others. Enjoy, thrive. Play hard.

I do not intend to speak of “politics” here again. Social observations, certainly. But policy discussions? Personality discussions? No.

I do not intend to speak of activism, or of causes, or specific actions.

No more.

My war is elsewhere, these days; and that’s where my energy will be.