Well noted Eunice. I think I'm (mostly) past the blame stage and into the mourning stage. Tomorrow I am cutting my hair and rending my clothes. I will post photos sometime later. Fasting was my first consideration, but my parents talked me out of it with health considerations.

But make no mistake about it- this is not about anger at republicans. I have nothing but high regard for anyone who cast a ballot out of good faith and reasonable consideration. It is about mourning and sympathy for the future.

I grieve for the men and women who will be drafted and for the families whose lives' savings will be turned into monopoly money when America's national debt passes our GDP. I grieve for the million women who will have abortions once again in the basement bathrooms and inner-city alley-ways. I grieve for the tens of millions of homosexual couples who will not be able to marry in my lifetime. I grieve for the hundreds of millions of Iraqis and Saudis and others who will die because of our neocon crusades in the mideast.

For some reason matt, your friend who is fasting is a woman after my own heart. There were many things on the ballot this election, and not all of them spelled out in print.

posted by john owens-ream   [9:07 PM]

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