Happy May Day, comrade!

You know - things were so much easier when there were Communists.  Think about it.  When the “evil” USSR was around, we could see our enemy.  We could send troops, tanks, missles and everything else to a line drawn on a map and say “you will not cross here”.  I mean a whole series of James Bond movies fed off of the US v. USSR dynamic.  I bet Roger Moore got pissed when the Wall fell.  He could not fight those evil Russians anymore.  Just Christopher Walken.  And Grace Jones.  Anyway, I digress.  When i was growing up, all I had to worry about was the fact that the streets of Atlanta could turn into the dusty city shown at the end of THe Road Warrior with people dressed like they were in a Pat Benetar’s “Love Is a Battlefield” video.  But now, I worry.  Where is the enemy?  Could he be the person on the MARTA train?  The person at the cash register at QT?  You just don’t know anymore.

I have never denied the fact I voted for Mr. Ego (a.k.a. Bush).  At the time, he was the better of two bad choices.  Had Gore been elected, gas would still be $4/gal and there still would have been a food shortage.  Had Kerry been elected, gas would still be $4/gal and there still would have been a food shortage.  Both of these major issues are much bigger than who is running the country.  I guess my concern is the fact that we are really no where closer to being “done” in the Middle East.  (By the way, naysayers, if the US is there to protect oil or to steal oil, then why is oil still so expensive?  Yeah, that is what I thought.  Sit down.)  It is troubling to watch the news.  It is much too depressing.  Depressing in more than one way though.  I like to think that I try to get all angles of a story before I form an opinion.  The fact is that there are such large swings between each of the news sources it is no wonder we are a polorized country.  If you read on CNN.com that the oranges are orange, they are red-orange on FoxNews.com, red-tinted on ABCnews.com, and apples on USAToday.com.  It is no wonder we as a country cannot seem to get along.

I sometimes wonder what Sperm will have to deal with.  He is so innocent (well, sort of).  In 10 years, will he be the one who belongs to the MoveOn.org lefties?  Will he be an eco-terrorist?  Will he lead the College Republicans?  Be part of the Taliaban?  The fact is I do not know.  All I can do is try to steer him in the right direction and when the time comes, allow him to fly free.

So I guess I am asking, can we have Communism back without all of the oppression and financial woes?