yo everything is terrible. have just been raving at my parents about the lowness of gasoline taxes and the conspiratorial evil of corporations and how it'll cost $100 billion a year to keep roads in exactly the same shitty ass shape they're in right now.

when i was younger it used to be terrible arguing with my dad. i don't know how it worked out exactly, but he was always right, and in this crippling, total way. it was as if he brought that intolerable "i have lived a very, very long life and am now unbearably wise" shtick to bear in our arguments about invading afghanistan which left me flailing and utterly defeated. now though it's changed. it's super great to have statistics and such (i have repeated that gas taxes raised $25 billion in 2006 ("a relative boom year!" i would add, yelling) while, again, fucking $100 billion is necessary to keep up roads. we are subsidizing a bogus ass car industry in a very hidden way, and we always have been. and now my dad shrinks up into this adorable little person, retreating from the argument saying he just wants to learn about the higg's boson and the creation of the universe and giggles a bit at the violence of my feeling.

yo everything is SO TERRIBLE!