man, so much to do, so little frigging time to do it in. madness, lately. stay tuned for updates hopefully soon.
in other news: man oh man do i look forward to when “payday” doesn’t also mean ‘”pay all your bills and leave yourself with a couple hundred bucks for groceries and stuff for the next two weeks” day.’ i mean, i’m certainly making progress on a couple of financial fronts — paying down the credit cards and, oh, bliss of blissful, blissful bliss, finally almost free of JP Morgan Chase, the baboons who can’t even manage to replace debit cards without six hours of telephone time — but still, y’know… one of these days i’m going to get a paycheck and i’m just going to let it sit in my checking account and rot, so i never again have a week when my bank’s automated system calls me daily to remind me my balance has fallen below a certain threshold. that’s my goal. it’s gonna be great.
i used to have only two rules for suicide, developed when one day i was riding metra to work one day and we were … “unexpectedly delayed.”
1. Don’t fuck up anyone’s commute.
2. Don’t leave a disgusting mess for the EMTs.
later i added a third rule, when i had moved into an apartment building i’d been specifically looking forward to having rooftop access at, only to learn that literally a week before i moved in, they’d cut off rooftop access due to a jumper.
3. Don’t fuck up any of my shit.
now, i see (after reading this) that i neglected to set a very obvious rule out. thus i present to you the world premiere debut of sabrina’s fourth rule of suicide:
4. Don’t take anyone with you, you selfish bastard.
i have two words to say in reponse to this opinion piece: HELL YES.
Given the multiple ineptitudes of Rod Blagojevich — his reckless financial stewardship, his dictatorial antics, his penchant for creating political enemies — should citizens create a new way to terminate a chief executive who won’t, or can’t, do his job?
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The Blagojevich experience suggests that the answer is yes, Illinois should write a recall mechanism into its constitution. Having endured the Blagojevich era, we believe voters never should have to endure another one like it. They instead should have the power to recall an inept governor.
i have voted on a number of occasions, and on some of them have later decided that i chose poorly (or at best, the better choice was still an idiot). but i have never regretted a vote so much as i do my vote for G-Rod. ugh! at this point, i think the best thing blago can do for illinois is bond democrats, republicans, and independents in a spirit of togetherness as we all gather to bitch about the ways that we want him to quit his job and get the hell out of our hair.
Sirs:
This is in response to your opinion piece of 28 October entitled “Tell us what you think: Removing a governor.”
From your op-ed pages to God’s ears. The best thing Blago has done for me for the past few years is given me some common ground with people with whose politics I otherwise often disagree — we can gather at the coffee machine at work and all bask in the togetherness of wishing he would quit playing “I’m the fun governor!” at our expense. I feel that he has actively worked to make my life worse, with his hamfisted attempts to control the state (with special appreciation for how he’s handled the ongoing RTA/CTA/Metra problems), and the worst part about it is that he hasn’t even made anyone else’s life better in return for my inconvenience; he’s an equal-opportunity clown. He has all the subtlety and governance skill of a hyper two year old, only we don’t have the power to send him to his room so he’ll quit breaking our stuff. I long for the days when the most irritating thing about our governor was his slight tendency to engage in illegal funding schemes.
In other words: Yes, yes, we need a recall clause!
Sabrina L Downard
Wicker Park, Chicago
847 xxx xxxx (mobile)
