Today I will climb onto a
bus to take part in
The Daily Show's
March for Sanity. At first I thought I wouldn't attend, I liked the idea but Washington is about a seven hour drive from my home, and frankly that's a long drive for three hours. But the more I thought about it the more it ate at me. I despise today's politics, where
reality is defined ideologically, where smearing people and just plain making stuff up is just normal. I'm glad I don't watch much TV because all the dishonest negative ads nauseate me.
In short, I think my country's about to take a deep dive into the toilet and I damned well don't like it. So even though I'm a guy who cares deeply but is really reluctant to pick up a sign, I think I'll make an exception this time, as I did back in 2003. If America is to move forward, and even act as a responsible partner in the world, our political debate must center on the real world, and invective must not substitute for evidence. So I'm going. And I hope I meet a couple noders there.