No, not the film or the television series…
The “dead zone” I’m referring to is the condition I currently find myself in…a 3/4 awake, fuge-state, post-insomnia. I actually managed to get a bit of sleep last night, but I’m in need of a great deal more before I see the light at the end of the tunnel. My friends ask if I should see a doctor, but I don’t need to: it’s all stress, and I simply need to hide in the dark for a while until it passes.
Erasing the last two weeks from the space-time continuum might help, but no sense in crying over spilled milk, so…here are a few weekend thoughts as I try to get through this day:
(1) In an effort to try and totally exhaust my body and force it to sleep, I ran to the gym to do some carido at 7:30 am this morning! Scarier than the time was the welcome I received on my arrival: the gym-wide radio system was playing the theme from The Exorcist — and judging from the disturbed-looking people scattered throughout the building, I wasn’t the only one put off by the choice of music…
(2) People act so surprised at the revelation of a Conservative “dirty tricks” manual, designed to disrupt committee business…and therefore, paralyze the government system…whenever things aren’t going the way Feckless Leader’s depraved will demands. I’m more surprised that they actually wrote a PHYSICAL, BOUND MANUAL, and let it get into the hands of one of the country’s best journalists! Are they so naive that they didn’t they think it would actually be made public…ever? They might (desperately) wish that Parliament Hill was run like a Stalinist gulag, but since it isn’t…well…as I said, people shouldn’t be surprised at its existence.
On the bright side, Stephen Harper now has his own not-so-little red book, in the great tradition of Mao himself. He should feel very proud of himself — in a time when our system of government is descending into complete and utter farce, he proves conclusively that scum always rises to the top…
(3) James Dobson — the head of Focus on the Family, and the only right-wing-Republican-fudamentalist-zealot-anti-Christ left now that Jerry Falwell has departed the Earth — has announced that, because of his stance of civil unions and abortion, he could never vote for possible Republican frontrunner for President, and hero of 9/11, former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani..
Frankly, that’s almost enough of an endorsement to make ME vote for Giuliani…and I’m neither (a) an American, or (b) a Republican! Then again, it could simply be my “dead zone” influenced mind speaking out of turn… 
