The Urban Pantheist

Apropos of nothing I can put my finger on, I feel kind of depressed and lonely today. The introduction to the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast refers to "everyday compulsive negative thinking," something very familiar to me. I thought of this cartoon, one of my all-time favorites:
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I think since politics are dominating my thoughts these days I have to give up on apologizing about it.  Drop me from your friends list if you must, but I have stuff on my mind and it comes out here.

The victory for chickens in California should not be taken to mean that Californians care more about chickens' rights than human rights.  I'm pretty pissed off about question 8 passing, but I'm happy about animal welfare being taken seriously.  The chickens are still going to be killed and eaten, after all.  The gay married couples have some unneeded stress and irritation coming, but hey, they still live in California.



But seriously, how could you vote to take the happy out of this picture??

EDITED TO ADD TOM TOLES CARTOON:

a few posts ago i tried to express something about the current attempted character assassination of obama, but i just discovered that tom toles--as usual--has already said it much more eloquently.



tom toles is the best political cartoonist working, and has been since the reagan era
http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles