The Living Rockumentary

Salon.com asked a whole bunch of prominent bloggers what they'll do if Bush wins.
These were my 2 favorites.



Professor John-Paul Spiro blogs at everythingsruined.com
I almost feel that smart people should go on strike for four years just in a kind of "Atlas Shrugged" way, except with the opposite politics.
If you are a thinking person it's becoming impossible to go along with this program. And if he wins it's not even left vs. right, or red vs. blue anymore. It's thinking vs. not thinking, and the thinking people should go on strike.
On a personal level, I think that I will live in absurdity for four years. If Bush wins again, it will be this triumph over rational thought. Rational thought will have been demonstrated to have no efficacy, and no application anymore, and the only choice left will be just to become absurd in the way a lot of Russians did for decades. They had no choice but to find it all ridiculous.
In my blog I would no longer address events. I would either create my own fantasies, or treat everything like it's a fantasy. I would no longer be a member of the reality-based community, because they will have lost. To make claims about reality will no longer be valid.
Where do we go from here? We stop taking things seriously. Whatever people say about Kerry, what I've always liked about him is he takes things seriously.
Seriousness will have lost, so we'll have to go for the opposite.

John Grimes, cartoonist, illustrator and producer of the documentary "There's Something About W: A Wry Look at the Policies of the Bush Administration"
If Bush does squeak by, I've got a five-point plan:

First, I'd apply for one of those cushy mongering positions at the new Department of Fear. Second, I'd learn Canadian, just in case. Third, I'd go to the counter-inauguration rally in D.C. in January to help show the world that's there no mandate, just another goofball American mistake. Fourth, I'd do more cartoons about political issues now that Bush has politicized everything. Fifth, to celebrate our 25th anniversary of heavy dating, Robin [director and co-producer of "There's Something About W"] and I will travel to Old Europe in the spring. We'll apologize profusely and ask those cheese-eating, war-averting chocolate makers to help us raise hell for four years while we work to put a true humanitarian in the Oval Orifice."