Twilight Zone

One day I woke up in the Twilight Zone. Everything had changed. People were accepting things that would have been thought insane as normal. Arnold Schwartzenegger is governor of California. Paris Hilton is a star. George W. Bush is president and has declared it a sin to oppose any of his court appointments. Oil is trading at $55 a barrel (and people who drive trucks voted overwhelmingly for the man responsible). Cancer is epidemic (and this epidemic is a direct result of environmental causes) but no one seems to notice. Being tattoed has become mainstream. God is supposed to have favored Bush-Cheney. God is supposed to have favored Bush and Cheney? Are there people who actually believe that? What sort of God are they thinking about? Is that laughter coming from down below? Behavior that should be sanctioned has become completely acceptable and behavior that would have been thought nearly saintly has become "gross." That's the word of this particular corner of the Twilight Zone, by the way. "Gross." What happened to "cool" or even the really nerdy version --- "neat"? Now everything is "gross" at least in this little corner of the Twilight Zone. There are other corners, of course, where the rules are just as wacky. Such as those places where people are regularly gunned down or stabbed or otherwise maimed or killed and it is considered not even worthy of a newspaper story. I know I'm in the Twilight Zone but I can't figure out what to do about it. Guess I'll just have to accept it and hope to one day find that other dimensional portal out.