“a nation turns its lonely eyes to you…”

Last night, Gregory and I were watching the episode of “The Daily Show” that originally aired the night of the Vice-Presidential Debate (ALL HAIL THE GRAND AND GLORIOUS TIVO!), and after watching Jonny Stewart crouch down, draw his claws, bare his teeth, and do his impersonation of the oh, so charming and personable Dick Cheney (“grrrrrr!”), I suddenly felt the oddest sense of peace come over me.

No matter what happens…even if Bush gets four more years as the bumbling, counterfeit leader of the most powerful and influential nation on earth, this time to shamelessly and fearlessly do whatever the fuck he wants, however the fuck he wants to do it — completely unfettered by the pressure of second-term re-election…even if he puts a halt to vital stem-cell research because he has to mollify his vast, ignunt, right-wing, fundamentalist christian base that exists mainly (and aptly) in those states that register on the political map as being the color of blood…even if this pointless, nonsensical war continues on and thousands more young men and women needlessly die for the agenda of a single man and his pack of slavering jackals…even if he stacks that gottdamned supreme court with neo-fascist pricks who don’t give a rat’s ass about a woman’s profoundly fundamental right to control her own body and reproductive destiny…even if this worst possible scenario comes to pass…

We will always have Jon Stewart — to tell us the truth…and to point out the absurdity of that truth. And, more importantly, to make us belly laugh and to glimpse, if even for just a moment, a small sliver of light in a time that will surely be one of the darkest that this country has ever known.

About muffybolding

Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.

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