Today is extraordinarily beautiful. Clear, sunny, somewhere in the Fahrenheit upper-fifties, which is approaching what we know as “perfect” on the Sims temperature scale.
I feel happier than I have felt in weeks.
I feel human.
It was about two miles of absolute wonder. The wind blew my hair (which is about 50% longer than it has been [...]
You may have heard.
Some other quick observations concerning the inauguration. You may have noticed these as well.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court flubbed the Oath of Office. The new President tried to correct him. Didn’t work out so well.
The new Vice President’s middle name is Robinette.
Every speaker I saw invoked God at some [...]
Yes, I am.
My time at the University of Kentucky ended and my self-discovery by personal definition by occupation journey faked to fake completion, I am a college-degreed waiter.
My emotions surrounding this situation vary by the day, if not the hour. It’s a job. It’s only rarely a bad job. Last Saturday (10/11), a double [...]
Oh dear God this man is full of shit.
Now that the whole nominee thing is effectively squared away, we find good old Johnny McCain stumbling toward senility at every possible turn.
Saturday evening, the presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee declared, “I’ll admit to you that it’s tough, it’s tough in some respects.”
What’s tough, you ask? Senator McCain stuttered the above in response to the question, [...]
I took the day off work in preparation for the vacation the Sims family leaves on tomorrow morning (laundry, etc.).
Well I did something this morning that isn’t really something I’d usually do, and that would be to turn on Joe Scarborough’s morning show on MSNBC. Well Joe’s absent today, with a man and woman [...]
. . . it looks like we have a Democratic Presidential Nominee.
I haven’t been exactly open here as to who I’ve supported, but after Dennis Kucinich gave up the fight, I shifted my support and attention to Barack Obama. He wasn’t the most typically progressive candidate left in the race (that was John Edwards, whose [...]
Driving back from Target today (I bought a super-hippie-style soy wax Eucalyptus/Patchouli candle), I popped in Mike Doughty’s newest record Golden Delicious, which, incidentally, I can bring myself neither to love nor to completely write off.
And one of the main reasons I can’t write it off is the album’s opening track, Fort Hood, a tear-jerking [...]
Five years at 365 days/year+5 days+1 Leap Day=1831 days of War.
In those 1831 days, 4000 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq.
A little division:
4000 killed/1826 days=2.1845 U.S. Soldiers killed, on average, every single day.
So there’s that. Something to think about.
Five years in Iraq.
I started with a massive bitch session right here. Then I deleted it. And now I’m at a loss for what to say. I opened the Huffington Post home page yesterday afternoon and read that big, red text that says:
3,990 US Troops Killed… 29,395 Wounded… 2,100 Have Tried To Commit Suicide… 88% [...]