'Tis glorious. Amazing news! It's about freaking TIME!!

Britney's leaving Kevin!!!!

Oh wait...did you think I was referring to the elections? Okay, that's well overdue too. The sad thing is that the democrats making such huge gains this go 'round pretty much only makes the Senate and the House of Reps 'even'. Okay, so they won the majority in the Senate by ONE seat. Still doesn't mean that every democrat will vote for every democratic issue that comes up. But alas, at least the seats are fairly equally balanced now, as they should be.

Plus,in addition to Britney dumping Kevin, George W. dumped Donald Rumsfeld. Also with the Democrats taking over the House of Representatives, comes the extremely good news that we are set to have the very first female Speaker of the House in our nation's history!!! Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California. AND!! Americans elected record number of gay candidates in yesterday's election! Sixty-seven candidates endorsed by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund were elected in 2006 (some earlier in the year) to federal, state, and local offices, according to a press release from the LGBT political action committee.

It's all very exciting. Essentially, I think since 9-11 the country has really been learning alot about itself, and through all the events following (Wars, Katrina disaster, etc) it took GWB's failing the country, to get people to finally make a statement and a determined effort for change. Change that America desperately needs. Maybe we can finally begin not only fixing all the wrongs that have occured in the last 4 years, but also continue to further improve our country.

I've noticed a change in myself, as far as being very concerned about politics, which I think occurred after living outside our country, and visiting others. Although at the time I didn't consciously take note of the differences in how things are run politically, I've definitely learned alot about myself and the politics I believe in since then. I definitley have stances and opinions on a lot of issues now and know why I support what I do, whereas before I didn't really know what I thought about a lot of things. Maybe its just part of growing up too. Or part of growing up, in such a diverse and open community such as Webster. Either way, I love it, and I love the beliefs I've accumulated or developed or shaped.

I never ever though I would feel any sort of passion for politics, and I definitely didn't feel grateful or proud of certain civil liberties were allowed in America, but I'm gradually becoming much more appreciative of all of them as well as claiming them as my own, and using them and standing up for them as much as possible.

I also never thought I was much of a fan of documentary films, but this year, the films I'm anticipating most all happen to be political documentaries. I loved the Al Franken doc, and really want to see "The Death of a President" this week at the Tivoli. Then next week I'm excited to see a screening of "Can Mr. Smith Still Go to Washington" here thanks to the Webster Film Series, and then of course I'm extremely eager to look back on the snapshot of America and our culture during 2003 in "Shut Up and Sing". I think it will be interesting to see it from the perspective of looking back on it and actually realizing how much our country was changed, and has changed since then. It'll definitely be an interesting film to look at again in 20 years or so. Which is actually kinda sad, because in 20 years we might find ourselves watching it to realize that maybe not much has changed at all--similar to how audiences at the Toronto film festival felt viewing "The US v. John Lennon", a documentary about Lennon speaking out against war (Vietnam) that essentially ended his career here (hmmm, ring a bell with any contemporary artists experiencing the same thing, all these years later?)

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