Sunday, April 23, 2006 | by nathan

Not Ready To Make Nice

Some people think that they are too good to listen to the Dixie Chicks, or to country music in general. These people - especially the political progressives among you - need to get over it and listen to their new song, "Not Ready To Make Nice," which is one of the coolest, angriest, most intense country songs I have listened to in a long time.

For my part I am wondering as to the message of the song in my own life. When I listen to it I start thinking about all the things in my life that have made me angry, and whose fault those things are. This leads to the conversations with no one. And the getting pissed, and reading blogs I shouldn’t, and kind of hating the Democrats a little for not helping us out more, and the thinking my thinky little thoughts, like how the next time I hear a certain broadcaster/blogger talk about how "liberals just want to kill babies," I may shove a broken-up beer bottle up his ass. I do not want to dismiss any anger I have out of hand, and I really don’t want to trash any other bloggers since I promised not to (and have done pretty well, considering how much I want to trash some of them), but I am totally unsure as to how to use it toward anything constructive, unless you count conjuring up the kind of images that I am sure make Jesus want to take vodka shots straight out of an ashtray ‘constructive.’

The A/C is out. It’s hot. And I’m pissed as hell about global warming. And I can’t sleep. Thinking a tequila shot might help us out here, but a little scared to go there.