Courtesy of the ever lovely T.O.E. comes the word dizzling. Apparently it was a misstatement by one of her Frenchie Friends. So we put out heads together over chat, because dizzling is too perfect of a word to not have a definition. And we decided that there are not enough Lady-Only words for masturbation. But now add one more to the list. Here’s some sentences to try out for yourself. I needs double A batteries from the store. My rabbit is dead and I need it for dizzling. He was way too quick, so I dizzled myself to sleep. Alright kids, try some yourself. And remember to make dizzle happen (both figuratively and literally.)

It’s that shitty season when people of supposedly democratic leanings get on the “IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR LESS EVIL YOU CAN’T COMPLAIN ABOUT EVIL” kick, and don’t even see the cognitive dissonance in their commandments.

4 years ago I got it from both sides, Democrats who were all “VOTE FOR OBAMA OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! PALIN IS SLUTTY STUPID HEAD! VOTE FOR OBAMA OR ELSE!” And of course there were the PUMAS “VOTE FOR MCCAIN-PALIN! YOU MUST VOTE FOR ANY WOMAN BECAUSE VAGINA!”

Neither party had earned my vote. I voted, instead, for the only candidate that had my own interests at heart. Cynthia McKinney. I don’t regret it, not for second.

And now, Obama still hasn’t earned my vote. Lilly Ledbetter is not enough to earn my vote. The Insurance lobby give away that is the Affordable (ha) Care Act is CERTAINLY not enough. The fact that Obama grew a set of ovaries regarding “legitimate rape” is not enough from the man who let the abortion conversation get pushed so far to the right that someone fighting for rape and incest exceptions looks positively Rooseveltian in comparison to the shitmonsters on the far right.

Not even the dude and I having the same “if I had a superpower” wish is enough.

I cannot overlook drones. I cannot overlook a president, who in the midst of the biggest financial catastrophe since The Great Depression, can’t  bring himself to utter the words “poor” or “poverty” in his State of the Union speeches. I can’t overlook a president who let the austerity alligators decide the terms of our becoming their dinner.

The Dems haven’t regained my trust since the last election. In fact, they’ve reinforced the knowledge that I do not matter to them. My kid doesn’t matter to them. My friends, neighbors and community don’t matter to them. Except at election time, and then it’s all “OMG IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO JUST IGNORE YOUR EXISTENCE THEN YOU’LL BE RULED BY MEN WHO ACTUALLY HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!”

Maybe that’s true. I can live with it, because I do not vote against my own self-interest. I do not give my stamp of legitimacy to those who don’t care if I live or die. Obama hasn’t earned my vote. The Democratic party hasn’t earned my vote. In other words, they just haven’t earned it yet, baby.

Now you might notice something about all those paragraphs above. Not one sentence is a “YOU MUST” sentence. I use my words. I use my “I” statements. Those are my feelings about my little vote. I got a lot of sheepish “I know he’s a douche but I think I have to vote for Obama” statements from friends last election. And not one single one of them got a “FUCK YOU! YOU HAVE CAUSED THE DOWNFALL OF SOCIETY WITH YOUR VOTE” from me. Because it’s your mother-fucking vote. Vote your interests. Maybe you are ok with Obama. Maybe you are just afeared of a Romney presidency. I don’t know why you vote the way you do. I don’t care. It’s your vote. You do you.

But if you go around telling people that they must “VOTE FOR LESS EVIL BECAUSE IT’S STILL LESS EVIL” I am going to call you a bullying shitmonster to your face. Because you are. You can list in bullet points why you are voting Team Less Evil! But you don’t get to tell someone else what their own best interests are and how they MUST VOTE OR OMFG WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE IN A FIERY REPUBLICAN RAPTURE!!!!!!!

So you all have probably heard about the shitmonster Rethuglican, Sentator Todd Akin, who said that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant. As if our bodies have a magical defensive mechanism for blocking rapey sperm.

And a lot of the reaction to this ludicrous assault on women has been to treat the man as if he is stupid. Actually that is the first response of left-leaning folks when the right says yet another outlandish thing. Think of how Bush Jr. was talked about.

That’s a mistake. Treating the racists, the homophobes, the misogynists, etc. as if they are uniformed rubes. They aren’t. What they are is liars. And that is how they should be treated. Stupid can be accidental. Stupid can be fixed with better knowledge. These people, who hate with every fiber of their being aren’t stupid. They are lying. They know better, but knowing better doesn’t get them what they want. What they want is to remain firmly entrenched at the top of the pyramid.

We need to call them on their bullshit. We need to stop letting them control the debate with these ridiculous claims that have no basis in fact. We need to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and treating them like the whole difference of opinion is because they lack knowledge. They know the truth. They live in the world, same as we do. But the truth doesn’t get them what they want.

So this is the comment I left on Akin’s Facebook page:

I can’t believe you are actually as stupid as you pretend to be about biology. No one believes women have magical anti-pregnancy defenses against rapists. So you must be liar. A woman-hating, pro-rapist liar.

No more arguing. No more debate. No more letting liars and shitmonsters* control the agenda with their lies. It works with women-hating, pro-rape liars. It works with climate change deniers. It works with “MEN WILL MARRY THEIR DOGS” homophobes. It works with the assholes who try to create Trans* panic by screaming about “OMG WHAT IF A TRANS LADY USES THE WOMEN’S BATHROOM”. It works with the douchenoodles who are all “POOR PEOPLE AREN’T REALLY POOR CAUSE THEY HAVE CELL PHONES”. 

They are liars. Straight up. And they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it for one second longer. They deserve our disdain. They deserve to be called a liar straight to their lying faces. They deserve to be held accountable for the mountains of shit and grief and pain they cause.  

*FYI shitmonsters is my new favorite insult. Collecting insults has long been on of my favorite pastimes.

That’s how much money the Banksters are getting from qualitative easing.  Enough for every single man, woman, and child would get if we had the same access to government money as the crooks and thieves in the tacky suits.

That’s enough money to pay my rent, electricity, internet, and cell phone bill for an entire year.

Or enough to finish all of the Kid’s dental work (one more root canal and crown. 2 wisdom teeth extractions) except for orthodontia for his “vampire tooth” and make a reasonable start on my own dental needs. (I need multiple root canals/crowns, extractions and implants).Plus pay a lingering bill for my IUD (GAH IF ONLY I COULD HAVE WAITED 6 MONTHS I WOULD NOT HAVE THIS BILL).

Or enough to……?

If you put money into the hands of people who are desperate to spend it, you get the economy going. My landlord would benefit. So would Comcast, Tmobile and Seattle City Light. Or the small business that is my dentist would profit. Etc, etc.

But giving debt relief to the banksters only, that tiny one percent of one percent, will never work as an anti-depressant. They simply don’t have the purchasing power (or purchasing need) of the hundreds of millions of us who don’t belong at the top of the pyramid.

This post is probably not going to reflect well on me. But fuck it. We all gotta admit that we’re all a little (lot) racist sometimes.

So there is this family that lives in my building. Young (early 20’s ish) couple and the lady-half of the couple’s dad or grandfather. (He’s old enough to be my dad, she’s maybe 5 years older than the kid). They are Asian, and from my limited knowledge I guessed they were Korean. I think it’s cause they are all super tall and for some reason all the Korean people I have met have been super tall. Grandpa paces around the courtyard everynight having deep discussions on his cell phone in a language that isn’t English. It didn’t sound like it was Korean (or Mandarin or Cantonese or Japanese) either. It sounded kinda like Russian, from the snippets I caught. I’ve been trying to figure what the hell language it is for over a year.

Now it is certainly not impossible for a person of Asian ancestry to speak Russian. Russians be conquering just like lots of other countries and they are sharing the same continent, after all. But it just sounded kinda Russian. 

Tonight, Dude and Lady were standing outside the back gate that I have to walk through to sacrifice my lungs to the nicotine beast for the sake of humanity. (Seriously, I smoke to save your life, and yours and yours and yours, from the ravaging nico-beast). I finally caught enough of a conversation to know definitively what language they are speaking. Portuguese. Brazilian Portuguese, I think. Same unfamiliar vowels as Russian but will all the fun that is a Romance language.

I have lived here for over a year. The fucked up thing that categorizing people by race first means that my tiny brain could not conceive of Asian people speaking, as their native language, something that was from the Americas and wasn’t English. Even though there is a HUGE population of Asian people in the Americas. Even though Peru had a Japanese-Peruvian president. Even though (until Friday) I worked just a block away from the International District (aka Chinatown, which is wrong because most of the people in the neighborhood were Japanese or Korean and not Chinese). Racism makes us stupid. It makes us limited in understanding people as they actually are because we are wrapped up in the narrow vision of humanity that racism creates.