"Sick of You"

So it's the day after Christmas and the spirit of the season is already fading. I was just reading an interesting Information Clearing House article sample from Sheila Samples, "Will Stinky Cut The Big One?" but when I click on the link to read the rest of the story something else pops up, having tempted me with, (OK, I found the rest of the story here at Smirking Chimp)

"Bush is a brutal, pathological liar -- arguably a homicidal maniac. After losing two wars against helpless, unarmed nations, he's bored. The Decider is moving on to greater things, and those who know how to listen to him know the decision to nuke Iran has already been made."

Meanwhile, in the background is a song by Lou Reed playing titled "Sick of You". (Sorry, no YouTube video available.) But if these are portents of things to come in 2007, stay tuned. My meltdown may be imminent.

Oh, and I forgot to mention...to go along with the above (and below), I was at someone's blog (my apologies, I don't remember whose) reading comments and drowning in envy at things being said by someone in Spain that we, here, in this country can't say because "freedom of speech" comes at a cost few Americans can afford to pay anymore."

So, I will let Lou Reed speak for me instead. His lyrics hint at how I'm feeling at the moment.

Lou Reed - Sick Of You

I was up in the morning with the TV blarin'

brush my teeth sittin' watchin' the news

All the beaches were closed the ocean was a Red Sea

but there was no one there to part in two

There was no fresh salad because there's hypos in the cabbage

Staten Island disappeared at noon

And they say the midwest is in great distress

and NASA blew up the moon


The ozone layer has no ozone anymore

and you're gonna leave me for the guy next door

I'm Sick of You, I'm Sick of You


They arrested the Mayor for an illegal favor

sold the Empire State to Japan

And Oliver North married William Secord

and gave birth to a little Teheran

And the Ayatollah bought a nuclear warship

if he dies he wants to go out in style

And there's nothing to eat that don't carry the stink

of some human waste dumped in the Nile


But one thing is certainly true

no one here knows what to do

I'm Sick of You, I'm Sick of You


The radio said there were 400 dead

in some small town in Arkansas

Some whacked out trucker drove into a nuclear reactor

and killed everybody he saw

Now he's on Morton Downey and he's glowing and shining

doctors say this is a medical advance

They say the bad makes the good and there's something to be
learned

in every human experience


Well I know one thing that really is true

This here's a zoo and the keeper ain't you

And I'm sick of it, I'm Sick of You


They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps

and died being treated at Mt. Sinal

And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill

some wired doctor prescribed for stress

My arms and legs are shrunk the food all has lumps

They discovered some animal no one's ever seen

It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire

after running over Rudy Giuliani


They say the President's dead but no one can find his head

It's been missing now for weeks

But no one noticed it he had seemed so fit

and I'm Sick of it

I'm Sick of You, I'm so Sick of You, bye, bye, bye

bye, bye, bye