Turn off the T.V. and burn the newspapers

so the stimulus package has passed. It's not what the president asked for, but it's huge. According to OPB, the rest of the world is pissed at America because our financial turmoil is indicative of a larger problem and nobody wants to acknowledge the fact that they are also in the shit pool. Everybody is blaming the U.S. for this very serious problem. 

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What a mess. Bush delivered us to the precipice and laughed his way back to Texas. Here we sit, waiting for somebody to take the initiative on getting us near a solution. Obama can do it, but right now everybody is so tense.

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The other day, I was told that my sculpture is anachronistic. I want to be a potter. In this day and age, how is it possible that wanting to be a craftsman could be anything but out of time? Arrghh.