Sarah Palin became the Governor of Alaska on December 4, 2006. That means Morning Seditionists will have outlasted her by about 13 months when she quits sacrifices for the good of the people at the end of the month (say what you want about us, we aint quitters). And a new poll shows that 71% of Republicans would vote for her for President in 2012, despite the partial term abortion of her governorship. Of course, much like the proverbial Grand Jury indictment, Republicans would vote for a ham sandwich if it had an ‘R’ after its name (especially if it were running against an uppity socialist nigra). Independents, by a disturbingly close 55-34 margin, wish Palin would just go away, while CNN wonders whether Palin is the next GOP “kingmaker.” At this point, that’s a bit like being king of a very small, angry hill (like, say, Cotton Hill), but things can change awfully fast (especially when people who voted for a fast change see that things don’t seem to be changing at all).

Speaking of things not changing,

The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted….
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Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration argues that the legal basis for indefinite detention of aliens it considers dangerous is separate from war-crimes prosecutions.

Oh well, sucks to be them, I guess. Personally, I’ve decided I just don’t care anymore. Odds are, I’ll never be picked up and stuck in a dog kennel in Guantanamo. It’s possible, I suppose, but unlikely. If the NSA wants to illegally wiretap me, well, truth be told, I almost never use the phone and any conversations they might pick up generally consist of Granny calling to say she’s on the way to the store, and do I need beer, and me saying “well, duh.”

I have pretty good health insurance (at least, I think I do; as long as I don’t really use it, I’m sure they’ll let me keep paying for it), so I guess I don’t really care whether there’s single-payer healthcare or some crappy “public option” designed to let the insurance companies dump all the sick and poor people off on the taxpayers, while they continue to make millions of dollars in profits.

I’m not gay, so why should I care whether or not gay people have equal rights, can get married, serve openly in the military, etc.? I mean, other than it being the right thing. It’s not about what’s right, after all.

I don’t have kids, and global warming probably isn’t going to be too much of a factor in my lifetime. Odds are I can run out the clock without being too terribly affected, so what the hell?

I’ll keep recycling, of course, but only because recycling is free, and garbage costs a buck a bag. Same with composting. But only ‘cuz it’s cheaper that way, not because I care about being good to the environment that keeps us all alive (screw it; it’ll last longer than I will). Hell, I might even start burning old tires for heat next winter.

Mostly, I just don’t seem to give a shit this morning.

Now that Michael’s gone, nothing really seems to matter….