Passion for life

Is it possible that people are addicted to conflict?I think this question would have a fairly obvious answer for anyone who works in politics. I mean certain people-we sad souls that devote ourselves, or at least the most neurotic part to the drive to vanquish a certain enemy or foe?
Osama Bin Laden is a great example of someone who is addicted to conflict. I believe has outright admitted that he cannot live without a cause. Well, he says that even if the U.S. is no longer an issue to him one day, he will just look for the next threat to his empire or the Muslim world. (Well, I personally think it's mostly his empire-hopefully he'll be dead or in a prison before that becomes an option. ) But what about the average person-who needs no nuclear weapons or desires anyone's actual physical death?

I ask this because I hear too often these days-that life is boring after the presidential race. Saturday night live is boring, the news is boring, normal American life is boring. And I start to think that maybe a certain number of people are obsessed with- driven by the force of the fight to win an election or contest of some sort.
Anyways, I too have an obsession with the race to disempower those I cannot stand the influence of.. while I was starting to get a headache during the last week of the election from the endless rantings of liberal politicos and my own obsession with Bush' s kick butt win for the safety of our country-I find myself now strangely...empty. Much of my merrymaking time revolves around the image of those in the media-who annoy me.

I have come to grips with the fact that I like to analyze, tear apart, and make fun of certain media personalities in the Nation's capitol and Hollywood. Take for example Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle: Nothing makes me happier than ripping on Tom Daschle-I can still dissect in detail his ridiculous rants against the president during the Winter of 2003 on CNN and other media outlets. I really like doing it.
In my mind's eye political cartoon style-I would depict Daschle as a small puffy white poodle nipping at Bush's pant legs. That's really how I see him most of the time.
But what is this? Can it be? It seemed like only yesterday (the Fall of 2002) that Rep. Thune lost his race in South Dakota to Senator Tim Johnson and their were mutterings of the future battle to come with Daschle for his seat in the senate in 2004. Tom Daschle has been defeated and Representative Thune is now going to be Senator Thune come January 2005.

Article and link:
"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — In a political seismic shock, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle went down in defeat Tuesday, edged by former U.S. representative John Thune after a bruising, $26-million contest in which Republican leaders went all out to depose the country's top-ranking Democrat."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1099441266429_17?hub=World

-I thought this event would make me ecstatic. Maybe it was because I stayed up so late waiting to hear Bush had won-or that Kerry was going to sue on election night-but, I felt strangely happy and.....hollow. I loved ripping on Daschle and he really was inane most of the time. He probably won't dissappear entirely- I'm sure there is a position waiting for him somewhere in politics, but without the status of Senate Minority Leader-why would he be any fun to pick on, I mean seriously. And Senator Harry Reid just hasn't been any fun so far-who knows? Maybe he will be more meaty as time passes into the new congress this Spring.


Then the next shoe dropped, Britney Spears has finally utterly come to a hault. At least for the moment.
Article and link:
Babe Gone Horribly Wrong Britney Alexander Federline: Yikes. What was I thinking? For that matter, what has she been thinking ever since she blew it with Justin, dyed her hair, momentarily teamed up with Jason A. Alexander and moved on to whiskered fertile one Kevin F.? It would be like if Jennifer Aniston left Brad Pitt for Fred Durst and then for Kato Kaelin, and then did her hair in a brown shag. Ms. B., you were once a sexy siren in the making (yes, I realize that was mucho part of the prob). But come back to the Superstar Five and Dime, Britney Spears, Britney Spears! We miss you, girlfriend! Of course, that's like expecting a millionaire makeover for...(http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/cauth/Archive2004/041223d.html)

And Scene! You see there is no one better to rip on than the Britster-because she offers that loveable and intoxicating combination of entertainment value with an utter lack of self respect. So, I can always rip on her and people actually know who she is-whereas most Americans really don't know Tom Daschle or Tom Thune. It's sad but true.

I have passed many a dull hour ripping on her songs-her desire to be like Madonna and being a pale shadow at best, her utter lack of talent-the fact that she is a marketing phenom. The way she degrades women everywhere-asking why she is still around? I share the same addiction that many people have admitted to-we love to hate her.

But, her recent marriage and public failures have made her a pitiful and marginilized celebrity.
I can't feel good picking on her anymore. I sound like a fan who keeps going why? Why did she marry Federline-didn't he just get some other woman pregnant and doesn't he have more kids already?

So, I'm left at Christmastime wondering why my life revolves around ripping so much-when I try to be so positive otherwise? And WHO? I mean WHO, will take their places? Because these days, I've got a lot to be happy about in life. Bush has been reelected and Gwen Stefani has a dance album out. The Conservatives are attacking Arlen Specter (YAH! Get him!) and Rummy(Donald Rumsfeld). It just doesn't feel the same.......and by the way MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! And Happy New Year's!!!

Cheers Kids!!!!