15 More Months!

I've been having a bunch of really heavy dreams lately.  You know the ones, they stick with you through the day like a hangover (sometimes combined with a hangover).  I'm attributing it to events in the world that seem especially vivd right now.  Although it's a pretty pathetic silver lining, more and more I have to remind myself that we are 15 months away from the end of the most destructive presidency in the history of our nation.

This morning I awoke from a nightmare I was having about Bush being re-elected for a THIRD TERM.  In the dream I was so enraged and disgusted at the lack of intellectual curiosity in the American society, resulting in his remarkable election to a 3rd term.  I wondered, "How will we survive it?  Who else will we go to war with?  How will we ever fix the environment?"  What will this say to the world AND to our children about our collective values, that we want him as our leader?"

Once I was finally awake and half the way through a cup of coffee, it dawned on me.   This is how I felt the morning after Bush was elected to his 2nd term in 2004.

That day I did this cover for the LA City Beat for an article that discussed how to go on living as an American in the face of so much ignorance.