You can't always get what you want, but you get what you deserve.

Wake up goddamn it!

Like my mom used to say, "That's what you get."

People are going on a 'round-the-bendie about today's Supreme Court ruling. The one that Keith Olbermann characterizes as a confluence of "Pandora's Box and the bottomless pit."

"Oh no. The corporation can buy politicians, and run amok, and point the nation in whichever direction they see fit, without regard for the citizens!" Oh no! Whatever will we do? What country have you been living in Keith? Did I miss a meeting? How does this new jurisprudence establish anything that is any worse than what has been going on for the last hundred or more years in The Land of the Greed, and The Home of the Slaves?

Who decided that our options for leader of the free world should be luminaries of the human spirit like Bush, Gore, Kerry, McCain, Clinton, Obama? The people? Really? No! Corporate dollars created these puppets. This court ruling doesn't change anything but degree. We might be out of the frying pan, and inexorably into the fire, but either way we're cooked! So, who gives a fuck whether we're golden brown or flambe'd?

Politicians have been slaves to the dollar since their profession began, but we've had term-limits since our government was formed. They're called elections. Richard Pryor tried to get out the "None of the Above" vote two decades ago. Do you want to get rid of corrupt career-politicians? Stop reelecting the incumbent. Who's the bigger asshole? The corporations who pay for the commercials, or the drooling masses who believe the commercials? Get the bullshit out of your agenda. Stop throwing away good, sensible candidates because they don't share your: religious faith, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, definition of marriage, or any other belief that has nothing to do with the greatest good of our nation.

But you're not going to do that, are you? "He's a commie, he's a socialist, he's a fag, he's a catholic, you can't trust a man who's not married, I'm just not voting for her." This is how you want it. Well. You get it.