That Bush Girl

Some authors have to hustle to promote their books.  They struggle to get a book deal, sometimes they self-publish. They contact reporters and beg for reviews. I get contacted by these hard working artists trying to make a difference, write a story, people with something relevant to say.  

But, not Jenna Bush. The President’s daughter has been on my television all day long because she wrote a book.

Which brings me to a post I wrote earlier on Quit Coping, called Fair Smair, about fairness and how it’s futile to think about it.

I mean, I could bring up how my family’s economics are such that my child is getting asthma from living in a mold-contaminated home. What does that have to do with Jenna Bush?

Absolutely nothing, except that it’s her father who has put us in a big expensive war and that’s why the gas and grocery prices have doubled in the last two years, which is also why my family works harder and harder to to no avail. We just work to pay for more expensive gas, more expensive health care, more expensive milk, more expensive groceries.

He’s just my dad, she told Diane Sawyer.

Yeah, well your dad is screwing with my standard of living in a very real way.

But, what the hell does fair have to do with anything?