Pitiful that liberals cannot support AirAmerica like conservatives support Fox. What might this indicate?
That libs don't have to sit around and be told what to think by well-paid blowhards?
I really enjoyed listening to Al Franken when he used to be on. I would take my lunch and park under a shade tree somewhere and just listen to rational people who thought like me and sometimes I would learn something I didn't know.
Sometimes, I would have to take breaks from listening as I found it would really weigh on me and make me unhappy. I have to just stay away from here and all my political sites sometimes because I wind up feeling a negative melange of emotions from rage to despondency to disbelief.
Sometimes I don't feel at all like I'm 42. In fact, most times, I feel like I'm the same person I was at 32, and there are even rare times that I feel the same as I was at 22 (those are usually after I've had a couple of martinis or margaritas with dinner). But nothing makes me feel my age as when I think of what my political frame of mind was in 1997 and compare it with my frame of mind now, in 2007. In that context, I feel like what I've always thought someone who is 42 should be like.
Sort of adult and aware of what people do and fatherly and "grown up" and I'm not sure what, maybe the word is "stodgy". In that context, I feel the reality and the weight of what the world really is and I really get close to just throwing my hands up and considering just trying to make my next movie and checking out from political sites and discussion. You know, running away and sticking my fingers in my ears and yelling, "Lalalalalalalalalalalalala...!"
But, fortunately, I'm not that same person I was 10 years ago and I'm able to tell myself to just take a break and come back in a little while because it is important to stay informed and aware of what's happening in the world in hopes of keeping the world a safe place for my kid to live and hopefully prosper.
Coming to 3DHS is not going to change the world by itself, but it is part of my information processing even if it is infuriating 90% of the time. It serves as an articulation arena for arguments.
Air America served its purpose in my processing of information, as well. As someone smarter than me (I'll leave that wide open for Richpo) once said, "Most folks use talk radio in the same way a drunk uses a lamp post: for support more than illumination," and I can say that is how I used it for the most part.
Now that its no longer here, I find myself listening to the conservative station here. I take my lunch late in the day where I work now and I usually have to sit and listen to that idiot Sean Hannity (who sounds EXACTLY like Rush Limbaugh to me). He annoys me and I guess that is really the reason conservatives listen to him and people like Ann Coulter because they will say the most outrageous lies and the conservatives get to laugh at those of us who call them liars (with spittle flying).
The person that I find most entertaining on the conservative station is that whackjob Michael Savage. I actually laugh at loud at him a lot. Mostly, it's his style. He hates the "liberal media" but he hates Bush because he's such a complete doofus. I was listening to him the other night on the way home from work and he was literally screaming at the top of his lungs about Ahmedinajad coming to America and "verbally raping America". It was hilarious! It's also great when he starts his show off with talking about how much he hates talking on the radio and orders the producer or whoever to play some "rocknroll" and then as they cycle through some records he commands them to break the records because he hates the sound of it. Last week, he just played nearly all of one of Rammstein's records. He's nuts.
Anyway, I miss Air America and I wish the local manager had taken me and my fellow bloggers up on our idea to present a round table discussion as we did on the podcast I produced for us.
http://leftwingcracker.blogspot.com/2006/07/cues-first-podcast.html
