polar bear hater

By now anyone who reads my blog, or has know me since infancy knows my obsession and respect for the all powerful and majestic polar bear. I heart and respect Ewan McGreggor - not only for his awesome acting skills, but also because he dared to explore the bears in a documentary.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is on my shit list because she and the State of Alaska are sueing the U.S. Department of the Interior for adding the polar bears to the endangered species list. Well, fuck . . . I'm sure that if global warming weren't responsible for their demise, she can always arrange to hunt them from a helicopter, or something.

I like Alaska and feel honored at being one of the few people I know to have actually ventured to that gorgeous state. They have the tallest mountain in the country, awesome natural light shows and summer days where sunlight lasts way past midnight. I just don't understand how a place filled with so much natural wonder and beauty can be run by a small handful of ignorant white trash assholes. How is that fair?

I've spent eight years trying not to read or inform myself of anything political. Usually because I figure I can't change anything, so why bother. (Thank you George W. Bush for single-handedley unempowering my generation!) There's no use in having my blood boil over something that's inevitable. But this woman enrages me! I don't consider myself a feminist. Never have. Never will.

But this woman is so anti-feminist that I wouldn't be surprised if she revoked our right to vote. Anti equal pay for equal work and against a woman's right to choose she goes against everything my gender has fought for these last 80 years.

And my blood wouldn't be boiling right now if I wasn't getting harrassed with right-winged propaganda from the only member of my family who is obsessed with Palin and who actually voted for "The Shrub". (And yes, this is why I'm sending your calls to voicemail!) And the main reason I'm doing my research on this woman as well.

I work for an uber-liberal alternative newsweekly. What in anyone's right mind would have them believe I am anything but a liberal democrat? I'm not going to change my stance.