debate

watched the debate on nytimes.com. kerry is infuriating. he is debating a (admittedly, well trained) talking monkey and he can barely frustrate him. he acts overly cautious when he should attack and sometimes seems outwitted by a moron. i stand by my assertion that i would vote for a septic tank before i would vote for bush, but kerry hardly seems up to the challenge. it feels like he's going to lose, and then bush will have 4 more years to terrify people and just generally make the world a worse place to live. and then mccain will come in and finish the job. dammit kerry, you better *#@!*&!!! win. taiwan is (apparently) pretty corrupt, and will probably be taken over by china (!) in the near future, but at least taiwan is too small to do major damage. it makes me ill to consider the leaders now in place in russia, china, and the u.s. i want to hide in some obscure corner of the world and stick my head in the sand.