Well, here it is. I am joining with the masses in some effort to be heard. Sometimes talking to yourself makes you feel good even if someone watching you do it thinks your crazy.
This is the beginning of what I hope to be a kind of therapy for myself. My friend suggested that I give something like this a try. She says that maybe others might be interested in my opinions but I suspect it may also be away to stop me from talking and bitching all the time.
I complain a lot.
I mean ALOT. At times I think I may cross the line into whining, but I have a habit of always asking "why", and most likely I do not enjoy the answer. Then...............comes the rant.
The news is the worst. Please understand that I am a 33 year old, fairly well educated, white American Male. I am a twice divorced father of two, who according to popular media would be defined as a dead-beat dad. I am a veteran of the US Army. I have illnesses that don't allow me the freedoms of movement that I used to enjoy, and therefore my employment capabilities are limited.
Regardless of what my ancestors may or may have not done to anyone else's Ancestors, America is currently well aimed against my kind of person. ( I only say it in this way because I know someone, somewhere will be happy to recount how bad others have had it in the past) To those who would tell me about the past, well I agree completely. People in the past have suffered greatly for little or no reason. That however does not make me feel better about how I feel about my life....Our lives... NOW.
Well back to what I was talking about................... The news is the worst. I try not to watch. I alternate between yelling at the screen and laughing at what our news agencies think is important news.
....................And then I ask why.....................
Late night and standup comics made fun of, and criticized the news agencies ( CNN, FOX NEWS) for showing Jackson trial updates instead of Iraqi news updates. I did too, but the question why is simple to answer. We're stupid. Let me repeat. We're stupid. Enough of our homebound TV watching Americans were more than happy to turn away from Springer long enough to see a story about pedophilia. I know we as a people wont change, but I can still be frustrated about it.
Not only do we I general 'like" bad news, but we like a particular kind of bad news. Soldiers who die because they are ordered too is not juicy enough. We apparently need some good old fashioned child rape as well.
Think about that. Ill be back later
