People,

So, I try to never talk about politics in this journal. I am, by my own admission, hopelessly ill informed and naive, plus I'm not all that interested to be honest. The machinations of Washington D.C. rarely hit too close to home and when they do there's usually someone else to take care of it and protest for me. I'm very lazy.

However, I can't seem to get a handle on my growing rage about the way the current administration is handling itself. I honestly can't believe that no guerilla group hasn't tried to overthrow this awful "evil" administration yet. And it's starting to drive me crazy.

The thing that has got me in this mood today is the White House's repeated demand that John Kerry apologize for saying he didn't think Bush "would fuck it [Iraq] up as badly as he has." The childishness of this request and the constant attempt to spin people away from the fact that the country is going down the toilet is simply ridiculous.

First of all, to pretend that people don't say "fuck" or that you're shocked by the word is just silly. I guarantee George Bush says fuck at least 700 times a day. Everyone curses. So are we really to believe that when the people in the west wing heard Kerry say it they all went red in the face and ran to tell the principal? Are they four?

Plus, the word fuck has lost all of it's shock value. It is still a powerful word, but in this day and age fuck, shit, asshole etc. - all the old standbys - just don't do the trick any more. The only truly offensive words, in my mind, are racial slurs, and Kerry certainly didn't use one of them.

Additionally, the use of fuck was completely merited. Kerry could have said "did I think he'd mess it up like he has?" but then he would have sounded like someone describing a toddler's failed attempt at a Playdoh castle. No, he was right to say what he did, because he's talking about a man who has continuously lied to all of America and in so doing has caused the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of young Americans and Iraqis. And then the administration has the audacity to act shocked by this comment? If ever the word fuck should be used, describing matters of life and death is the time.

Maybe the White House needs to take a few minutes to figure out how the fuck they're going to staunch the wound that this "war" has become and spend a little less time acting like fucking two year olds. Fuck.