January 31, 2002

I saw the Presidents' State of the Union address on tuesday night... in one bit, the entire room stands-up to applaud the widow of Mike Spann (the CIA operative who died in an Afghan prison uprising. In fact, he was bludgeoned and bitten to death.) Okay, and I'm thinking 'what the hell does she deserve to be applauded for?? I mean, she didn't do anything at all! She sat at home, yet she's getting national recognition for being married to a martyr?!' I mean, come on!! Why does she deserve more glory than she ever got at any other time in her life strictly by virtue of her husband's risk-taking?! Her husband is obviously more valuable dead than alive, as her ego is being assured. We all sympathize with her; poor thing. Maybe the whole point was to honor her husband's death, but everyone in the Capitol stood to applaud her. Maybe if Bush had asked for a moment of silence to honor those who died, that might've been a bit more on-target... am I the only person who felt a conceptual problem at work? Ugh, I'll put that thought aside because it's truly futile to obsess over it... I'm probably totally out of line saying this sort of stuff.

Oh well, 30 more days to go before the next bout of sexual self-gratification... I've made it a point to avoid seeing lingerie ads in the newspaper. (Results will be posted March 2, 2002.)