From Jim Gilliam's blog

The Broken Heart is New

May 2, 2003 09:30 AM

Janeane Garofalo:


I have no plans to travel at this point, in part because nothing's funny to me.

I never imagined that I would never care about dumb things anymore. I never imagined I'd be a person who could transcend that kind of nonsense. But beyond that, I never imagined I would be penalized for speaking out in favor of social justice. I never thought that anyone who spoke out for peace, and diplomacy, and social justice would be pilloried.

I'm frequently depressed, just have a general malaise. And I don't mean a malaise of indifference, I mean a malaise of sadness and fear. I've always been alarmed by some of the things that the mainstream media does and by what the government does, no matter who's in office, but the broken heart is new.

More from the archive in Patriotism, Protest.

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Patriotism, Treason, and Ignorance (07.05.2003)
Absinthe (03.12.2003)

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