Wow, where does the time go? I’ve been so busy working, traveling and being traumatized by the upcoming election and the economy that I just haven’t had the time or spirit to blog. I’ve been watching the SNL takeoffs on Sarah Palin & John McCain and it is too eerie how like real-life the skits are. I mean, I’m as qualified as Sarah Palin to be Vice President and I know for a fact that I AM NOT qualified! What the hell?

The thing that really bothers me most about the election is the hypocrisy of John McCain. This is the guy who sold himself for years as the maverick, the outsider – and what does he do? He sells out to the far right because he wants to be President so badly he is willing to sacrifice all of his supposed values to feed his ambition. Shame on him!

I am reminded of a great quote from the movie The American President: “We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people.” John McCain is not proving himself to be that serious person. And God knows, Sarah Palin isn’t either.

The thing that bothers me the most about the economy’s implosion is the arrogance of the corporate world. Where are the greedy CEO’s who have been profiting for years on the crappy banking and mortgage practices (nicely explained here) that have been providing them with massive bonuses? One absolute criterion of any bailout plan should be that any company who gets bailout money gets NO CEO bonus money until that company pays back every cent they are loaned. And hey, let’s cut back on the top management salaries, too, until all of the money gets paid back.

*sigh*