What's the solution? - Letters to the Editor - Brief Article - Letter to the Editor

Progressive, The, Jan, 2003 by Laura Vaidya

I read Kate Clinton's commentary ("Regimen Change," November issue) with a smile and nod of agreement. I, too, desperately need a Bush Free Day, or B.F.D., as she called it. My nerves are on edge, my blood pressure seems to be rising, I've lost my appetite, and my brain is spinning. Why? Because I feel as if our nation is on the edge of a cliff and we are about to collectively jump off. I try to relax, sip on some beer, watch a bit of television, but inevitably I'll find myself channel surfing to some news show in which inane people with vacuous smiles report yet another Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Ashcroft outrage.

So what is the solution? How do we stop the Administration's psychotic rush to war now that the Congress, the media, and apparently even the United Nations are cowering under the onslaught of megatons of Bushshit?

Laura Vaidya
Sherman Oaks, California