Steve and I talked about political blogging when he was starting up EatOurBrains, and he was able to gently steer me away from posting my pessimistic outlook at that time.I believed that the Dems would be allowed to take maybe 10 to 12 seats in Congress, maybe three Senate positions. The rest would be bluntly stolen, via blackboxes, voter suppression, and apathy. I thought the US was over with. Yep, I’m a paranoid idiot. Ain’t it terrible? The Dems have taken the House and, likely, the Senate. I’m soooo embarrassed that I was wrong. That said, I keep checking to see if there’s a cloud inside the silver lining. I do NOT believe that the authoritarian criminal assholes that have wrecked my beloved country for so long have given up the fight and things will now be flowers and bunnies in the meadow. We still have to deal with a broken media, a Supreme Court that’s a hair away from being dominated by theocrats, and monstrous corporations that care for nothing but profits, no matter who gets hurt or killed in the process. I feel good today, because I’d thought that our system was so broken that elections had become the kind of phony shows that the USSR used to have. Today, that’s not the case, especially if the Dems have the balls to force changes in the election system, so that complete and easy theft of national elections is simply not possible.

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I’m sitting here posting while surrounded by boxes. The moving van is coming in about twenty-five minutes. I’m looking for the perfect Latin phrase to describe my predicament, because it’s a lot more fun than actually dealing with the move.

People always said Latin was a dead language, but when I was a kid, there were people who still spoke it. They tended not to have kids and pass it on because they were priests and Cardinals. I’m not saying that none of them had kids, but I suspect if they did, they kept quiet about it and didn’t have a lot to do with the kid’s education. The Synod of Bishops stopped being in Latin in 1999 but the current Pope is fluent in it and Vatican documents are still issued in it. There is a person at the Vatican whose job it is to decide what the official Latin term is for stuff that wasn’t around when Latin was still spoken at home over the family dinner table. (The Latin for ’spaceship’ is astronavis, and for ‘jumbo jet’ the term is aeronavis capacissima. I’m sure there are Latin words for cell phone and fax machine as well.)

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