Commercial advertisers should complain about the number of mind numbing political ads are running on our tv. Sometimes the same ad runs twice, back to back. So I have given up watching live TV completely. I’d rather read and tape the show. Then I can fast forward through all the commercials. This stops me from want to scream in agony at hearing one more time about why Dan Sullivan protects Alaska hunters or why Mark Begich is opposed to carbon tax or why… oh crap. Who gives a damn anymore? Just make the noise stop. My brain feels like it
RIP Bret Maverick
He was an integral to my youth as Little Joe. Both taught me what good men were like. Both showed me the kind of man I most was attracted to. And both clarified my someone hazy understanding of boys versus girls and that I most definitely was not gay.
Now they are both gone and a little part of my childhood has died with them.
When breakfast is late
I slept in on Saturday morning. This is what I found when I came out of my bedroom.
Guilt anyone?
Impeach the president? Really Sarah?
I guess Sarah Palin wouldn’t understand the enormity of the issue of impeaching a president or any given elected official since she didn’t hang around long enough as our governor for us to impeach her. And trust me, all signs indicated there would come a point where we would have.
The butt sniff
“Just look the other way and maybe he’ll go away.”
“But he’s sniffing my butt and he’s really big.”
“Just keep walking and maybe he’ll be too busy sniffing her butt to notice. Move slowly and quietly.”
Deaths in prison should have transparent investigations
Sometimes it’s easier than we care to admit to turn our faces away from a headline about a death in jail. Subconsciously most of us believe, if only a little, that a prisoner is someone who has done something bad so the death is not really a big deal. This is probably why, given the number of deaths in the state corrections system over the past few months, there has not been a huge outcry and demand for transparency concerning them.
These deaths have run the gamut of how people die – suicide, homicide and just found dead. If any
Am I the only one…
Am I the only one who thinks watching the Daily Show and the Colbert Report equates to watching real news shows as opposed to the crap that’s on most of the other channels?
Isn’t it interesting
Most “gun friendly” legislative bodies want to mandate that you can carry a gun anywhere you’d like… except for into the building where they work. Think they get that we might be maddest at them? Or do they simply not trust the mental stability of the people they are empowering with guns?
Congress is suing the president
Wonderful. Just wonderful. Rather than do any real business, let’s just act like three year olds and throw mud at each other.
The freedom of old age
I am finding that one of the best things about getting older… and trust me, this is a limited list… is that I no longer feel any obligation to fulfill social responsibilities that I don’t feel like exerting myself for. Not only do I not feel obligated, but I’ve finally turned the corner on the guilt and no longer feel guilty about staying home and hunkering in with my animals and a good book rather than go out and be social. So those of you whose social events I actually show up for should be honored. You are on a