If wishes were pennies, I'd have a vagina by now.

I wish I knew more than I do. I wish that that many-headed hydra, the Occupation Government, whose public faces include George "President Unelect" Bush, Condoleeza "Auntie Tom howdoisleep@nite" Rice & "No Justice No Peace" Ashcroft, would get its Herculean comeuppance. I wish my new governor wasn't as illegally elected as Bush. I wish my new governor wasn't Arnold "Sure I'm a Kennedy In-Law, Count the Molested Women" Schwarzenegger.

Mostly I wish this sinking feeling inside of me would go away: the one where men wearing arm-bands bayonet my queer ass because a small group of determined crazies hijacked my government in the name of the LORD.

Who woulda imagined "The Handmaid's Tale" would one day seem like a possibility?