Anti-social

I am avoiding human contact tonight. Which means I am probably not going to my friend Chris' show. http://www.accordingtowendy.com/(Chris, if you're reading this, I feel like crap but I hope you have a good show.) It's hard to completely avoid human contact seeing how I live with my twin sister. Allow me to reiterate -- my twin sister is my roommate. How's that for dysfunction? We fight like cats and dogs... or Greeks and Turks... or Israelis and Palestinians... whatever, we fight. But we love each other. It's fun living with her most of the time. Right now, it's great that I don't have to deal with a regular roommate who would want to know why I am so anti-social.

I think if I hibernate and recuperate I will stop being so freaking depressed about something that is not that depressing to begin with.

On an unrelated note, I'd love to know what people think of this -- http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1155844,00.html. I am a huge supporter of free speech-- mostly for selfish reasons, seeing how I tend to write every stupid thought that comes into my head on this blog. But the cartoons kind of make me uncomfortable as well. If an Arab newspaper published anti-Jewish or anti-Catholic cartoons there would be a HAIL STORM of shit thrown at them. But no matter what you think about the cartoons, props to the European newspapers who went ahead and reprinted them -- on their front pages, no less - -as a way of saying "Freedom of the press is more important than what the masses say." Can you imagine USA Today doing that? Not bloody likely.

There is no back bone or rebelliousness in American journalism today. There aren't even any ethics. They just rerun the press releases they get or run wire service text anyway. They regurgitate what the White House feeds them, what the lobbyists feed them, what the military feeds them. Woodward and Bernstein would have been fired if they tried that shit they did in the 70s today.