Outrage fatigue? Get over it.

Outrage fatigue? Get over it. Are you sick of being sick? Suffering way too much Bush-induced nausea? Well, tough By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, November 14, 2007

(Note from Syd: Mark communicates exactly what I've been thinking, but as usual, says it in a much more articulate fashion!!)

I know how it is. You've had it up to here. There are only so many stories about blood and death and pain you can take, only so many times you can hear about random shootings and corporate malfeasance and how BushCo's squad of scabrous flying monkeys have, say, supported torture or endorsed wiretapping or gouged the nation for another $200 billion to pay for a failed war. Your nerves are raw and your heart is tired and the media will just not shut the hell up already about the sadness and the war and the mayhem and the Cheney and the doom doom doom.

It is outrage fatigue, and it is epidemic. It's that feeling that we are being hammered unlike any time in recent history with so many appalling and disgusting and violently un-American incidents and scandals and manipulations that our b.s.-detectors are smoking like an old V-8 engine on a hot summer's day and it's all we can do to get up every day without screaming.
What's more, it's not the mere quantity of moral insults, either. It's the bizarre absurdity of the subject matter, the things we are being forced to consider, or reconsider, that seem to make it all so horrific.

Torture? Are you kidding? Allegedly the most civilized, the most morally aware nation on the planet and we are still debating, in the highest courts and government offices in the land, about whether the United States should strap human beings to gnarled metal benches in rancid foreign bunkers and inflict such inexplicable terror and fear upon them that they confess to things they didn't even do just to get us to stop? Is this the Middle Ages? Are we regressing back to the goddamn cave?

The Coup at Home by Frank Rich (I thought this summed it up nicely)

The Coup at Home By FRANK RICH

Published: November 11, 2007 : NY Times Op-Ed

AS Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrested judges, lawyers and human-rights activists in Pakistan last week, our Senate was busy demonstrating its own civic mettle. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, liberal Democrats from America’s two most highly populated blue states, gave the thumbs up to Michael B. Mukasey, ensuring his confirmation as attorney general.

So what if America’s chief law enforcement official won’t say that waterboarding is illegal? A state of emergency is a state of emergency. You’re either willing to sacrifice principles to head off the next ticking bomb, or you’re with the terrorists. Constitutional corners were cut in Washington in impressive synchronicity with General Musharraf’s crackdown in Islamabad.

In the days since, the coup in Pakistan has been almost universally condemned as the climactic death knell for Bush foreign policy, the epitome of White House hypocrisy and incompetence. But that’s not exactly news. It’s been apparent for years that America was suicidal to go to war in Iraq, a country with no tie to 9/11 and no weapons of mass destruction, while showering billions of dollars on Pakistan, where terrorists and nuclear weapons proliferate under the protection of a con man who serves as a host to Osama bin Laden.

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January 14, 2008 10:15 AM, by Syd Gris

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Unfiltered Breaks ~ Saturday, January 12th

Unfiltered Breakz (& Beyond) w/ Mephisto Odyssey

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January 12, 2008 07:04 PM, by Syd Gris

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Syd Gris & Alain Octavo Special 7 hour set :: 1-5-08

Syd Gris & Alain Octavo return to headline Ruby Skye for an all night tag team set

Affirmative. It's the first Saturday of the year, you're still cracked out from NYE, but you rally because you're a pro like that and you got on the FREE before 12M guest list, and you know a good time is in store for you with some hair of dog, starting the New Year off right! Yes, that's what I thought too. Come join Alain and I as we take over and cover some broad ground of pretty minimal techno, tech house, rockin electro, and beauty laced progressive.

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January 5, 2008 11:07 AM, by Syd Gris

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