Thursday, January 06, 2005
Letter of resignation. Spend a couple of weeks outside the USA and you forget the madness.
For the last two and a half years I've recorded my observations here about the deterioration of American society vis-á-vis the Republican manipulations — both the effective and the incompetent — that form their attempts to create a global plutocratic empire, cynically built upon a faux-Christian foundation.
But now I quit.
It has become apparent that America is dying. We have become not the frog that jumps from the boiling water, but the frog that complacently remains in the water that is heating up so slowly it won't realize it is a goner until it is too late.
I was not one of those who said during the campaign that if Bush wins again I am leaving the country. But now I am planning to do exactly that. It isn't Bush personally any more — if 51 percent of the American brain is dead, so is the American body.
So now, instead of blogging, I am working longer hours to make more money to get the fuck out of here. It may take a while, years maybe. I have property to dispose of, assets to figure out, languages to learn, legal matters to settle. But I no longer like the USA despite having lived here most of my life. This society is entering a long-term downward spiral of dysfunctionality and stingy Darwinism that I am not interested in witnessing firsthand.
You have my profound and humble thanks for stopping by and reading. Someday I may start up another blog with a new focus and a new voice under a new name. It was an enjoyable exercise, but its time has passed.
Skimble is dead. Long live Skimble.
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· First Command, last resort, Part 3
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· Leo Wells, REITs and divine wealth
· Sex-crazed Red State teenagers
· What I hate: a manifesto
· Spawn of Darleen Druyun
· All-American high school sex party
· Why is Ken Lay smiling?
· Poppy's Enron birthday party
· The Saudi money laundry and the president's uncle
· The sentence of Enron's John Forney
· The holiness of Neil Bush's marriage
· The Silence of Cheney: a poem
· South Park Christians
· Capitalist against Bush: Warren Buffett
· Fastow childen vs. Enron children
· Give your prescription money to your old boss
· Neil Bush, hard-working matchmaker
· Republicans against fetuses and pregnant women
· Emboldened Ken Lay
· Faith-based jails
· Please die for me so I can skip your funeral
· A brief illustrated history of the Republican Party
· Nancy Victory
· Soldiers become accountants
· Beware the Merrill Lynch mob
· Darleen Druyun's $5.7 billion surprise
· First responder funding
· Hoovering the country
· First Command fifty percent load
· Ken Lay and the Atkins diet
· Halliburton WMD
· Leave no CEO behind
· August in Crawford
· Elaine Pagels
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· Tom Hanks + Mujahideen
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· Seth Glickenhaus: Capitalist against Bush
· Martha's blow job
· Mark Belnick: Tyco Catholic nut
· Cheney's deferred Halliburton compensation
· Jeb sucks sugar cane
· Poindexter & LifeLog
· American Family Association panic
· Riley Bechtel and the crony economy
· The Book of Sharon (Bush)
· The Art of Enron
· Plunder convention
· Waiting in Kuwait: Jay Garner
· What's an Army private worth?
· Barbara Bodine, Queen of Baghdad
· Sneaky bastards at Halliburton
· Golf course and barbecue military strategy
· Enron at large
· Recent astroturf
· Cracker Chic 2
· No business like war business
· Big Brother
· Martha Stewart vs. Thomas White
· Roger Kimball, disappointed Republican poetry fan
· Cheney, Lay, Afghanistan
· Terry Lynn Barton, crimes of burning
· Feasting at the Cheney trough
· Who would Jesus indict?
· Return of the Carlyle Group
· Duct tape is for little people
· GOP and bad medicine
· Sears Tower vs Mt Rushmore
· Scared Christians
· Crooked playing field
· John O'Neill: The man who knew
· Back to the top
 
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