Tying it All Together

Since last Sunday's viewing of Good Night and Good Luck (highly recommendable and a must-see) i have had many things brewing in my head. the clooney movie, in addition to my new fondness for commander in chief, coupled with my real life adventures has put me in a deep retrospective, stepping back and looking at the world, mental state. i am still getting my thoughts together on how all these things inter-connect, but this blog has often been the birth place of my rash generalizations on the state of this country and our society, so i saw no reason not to continue that trend.

GNGL (Good Night and Good Luck - seriously i'm not going to keep typing that out) showcased what people can do to change the course of their country. as long as these people control the daily news that the rest of the country sees, that is. it did give me a sense of nostalgia (not that i was alive, but you get the point) for a time when newscasters weren't afraid to say that some stories didn't have 2 sides, that when people are wrong (i.e. Joe McCarthy) it is their job to report that and not give both sides when one side doesn't warrant it. current journalists would do well to learn from this. when all the facts show that a certain administration lied to get us into a failing war then it is not in America's best interest to show us both sides when one side is a lie. it is the press' responsibility to determine what is news and what is a lie. but we knew all that before, and until we have someone who can pull a murrow and still get fox news ratings we're pretty much screwed.

CiC (commander-in-chief - which by the way has a VERY odd website that i actually don't think i enjoy) puts me in a total quandary. i watch and support the show because it's the closest thing i can do right now to support women in politics (besides giving hillary money). somehow in my twisted reality i feel like if the show continues to get good ratings then that will encourage more women to run for public office. i feel that it is my patriotic/feminist duty to watch the show. and while watching i find that i am enjoying it more than i thought i would. i'll admit i was very very cynical of it to begin with and was quite sure it would be ahuge disappointment, and one that i would not be able to handle. (in this vein i had my mom watch the first few episodes for me and report back). it's turned out not to be a huge joke where geena davis spends half the show joking about how hard it is to make decisions wearing heels. i enjoy the fact that everyone hates her and esp. that her husband can't handle being the first lady and feel that he must exert his masculinity by becoming the commissioner of baseball (which brings up a valid point of why no one ever tried to abuse any first ladies position like that, i mean, obviously the whole thing is very un-realistic - but seriously - no power-hungry lobbyist had thought of that before???). all of this, in addition to the whole running the most important country in the world thing, leads to her playing a bitch the whole time. and here is what i LOVE - she is not a catty bitch and no one is talking about how she's PMSing, she's being a bitch because she's a woman in power and that's how you act. she's being a bitch because she is acting like men act, only with the better intentions a woman would bring to the office. yes, i'm bias - but you'd have to be blind not to see it.

chatting with someone the other day i mentioned how much i was unexpectedly enjoying the show and was told that yes, it was "made for people like me" which brings up an interesting point - who are these "people like me?" young 20 something girls working themselves to the bone to make this country a better place? people in politics? women? americans who believe it's about damn time for a woman to be president?

either way, it's currently the only thing that gives me the motivation to continue labeling hundreds of envelopes past midnight - and in my book we call that inspiration.

13 days to fiji.