Queen of the hill

Not really sure what to write about today. We are on Barbarian number 29. And she's a girl!



Is today's image an homage to our first Latina Supreme Court Justice? I wasn't really thinking about it until I watched the news (which my wife, for reasons about to become annoyingly apparent, does not like me to watch) and had to listen to right wing white dudes yammer on about racism. But then again, maybe she is a scary, hot blooded woman with crazy ideas who will try to legislate from the bench. She's just been biding her time until all the pieces fell into place. Those crazy latinas they plan everything years in advance.

I know it really doesn't matter what she does someone will take offense. I think I hear Glen Beck and Sean Hannity lining up already, that will be some profound discourse.

Is this what we've all become? Just a collection of people taking offense at the actions or perceived inaction of others? I don't think I've heard anything positive in this country for at least a year if not more unless it had to do with some IQ sapping reality TV show like American Idol. Yay to whoever the winners were I suppose.

It's as if all we can do is complain and whine and cry about how miserable our lives are. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see the bloated stomachs of half naked American children suffering through a drought. I don't know of any instance of tribes of people coming out of Montana to rape, pillage and cut off the hands of the people in Wyoming. I have yet to see the wholesale slaughter of a town within the borders of this country. So why all the gloom and doom? Why all the fear mongering?

Because the government "Cash for Clunkers" program is actually working? Because if the government starts it's own health insurance company the horrific specter of poor people actually having health coverage will raise it's ugly head while rich insurance companies may have to start offering me a reasonable amount of coverage to compete? The reality of gays and lesbians getting married and being able to go through all the crap heterosexual married couples go through (such as being allowed to sit by the hospital bed of the person you love or keeping together the life you've built with each other over the years or , heaven forfend, being able to slog through a messy divorce like 50% of the hetero couples in America today). Sounds terrible. Might as well kill yourself now.

Pish posh on it all I say. It's time for people to start talking to each other again. Pulling together. Actually understanding and quietly discussing issues with your neighbor instead of despising him or her because he doesn't hold the same belief system as you. It's time to figure out how to get rid of all the bile spewing TV talking heads and go back to actually getting some news on television instead of the right or left wing pundits pretending that the opinions they are spouting are actually facts. It's time for Americans to stop listening to those opinions and repeating them as fact.

Be happy that Bill Clinton brought home two journalists who were being held captive by a dictator. Be happy your duly elected president is having a beer with a couple of guys as a photo op and not taking another vacation to clip weeds on his farm. Be happy that Texas wants to secede from the union, goodbye have a nice day, I'll get right to work on that wall. Be happy that we live in a country where you can disrupt a town hall meeting by acting like the same @$$hole you were in high school and then try to call it intelligent discussion (don't worry you won't come off as a jerk).

Just be happy. Oh, yeah and be quiet.

Cheers!

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