Every human has a few charter flaws. Even humans who think they are perfect have a few flaws they just won't admit it. I'll admit to more than a few but the one flaw that bits me in the ass more than any other is impatience. Impatience can hit me on my morning commute, during phone conversations, making coffee, standing in line at the grocery store, waiting for an Internet page to load or a number of other ways. I don't think I am any different than any one else but I do think there are distinct categories to impatience. They are "I'm not getting any younger over here" "I don't understand what the big hold up is" "I've been ready for the last half hour so let's go" "I don't have time for this" "This is ridiculous" "You've got to be kidding me" and "For crying out loud what are these people doing".
For all you perfect humans maybe I better narrow your choices so you can admit there is a slight slight slight chance you may have the impatience flaw. Are you in the group that thinks everything takes too long or the group that thinks everything takes too goddamn long or maybe the group that thinks everything takes fucking forever? OK go ahead and make your choice and by the way hurry the hell up!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tea Party
Civil rights marches, antiwar protest, pro choice and pro life rallies, I love a good protest. I go to every one I can even if I don't agree with the cause. Wednesday was Tax Day for millions of Americans. The day is a pristine example of why Americans rallied all over America to protest taxes and the way their taxes are spent. The first tax protest took place in Boston in 1773 with a group of colonist protesting the British government. When Boston officials refused to return three ship loads of taxed tea to Britain a group of colonist boarded the ships and threw the tea into Boston Harbor.
I paid homage to my revolutionary forefathers by attending a Tea Party on Tax Day. I am sure Jefferson, Washington and Adams would have been proud of me. I am not a Socialist, Marxist or Fascist but I do have pretty liberal views. The fact of the matter is that all this Tea Party stuff is political at it's heart. Being the liberal Democrat that I am I probably don't have any right to throw any tea into Lady Bird Lake, Oh! I mean Boston Harbor. I did not see Paul Revere riding down Congress Ave in downtown Austin nor did I hear him hollowing "the British are coming, the British are coming" so what's all the fuss?
One lump or two, I'll take my tea straight! President Obama you can spend the nation's taxes any way you want. At least I know you will spend the taxes to benefit the masses not the rich few that the last president did.
I paid homage to my revolutionary forefathers by attending a Tea Party on Tax Day. I am sure Jefferson, Washington and Adams would have been proud of me. I am not a Socialist, Marxist or Fascist but I do have pretty liberal views. The fact of the matter is that all this Tea Party stuff is political at it's heart. Being the liberal Democrat that I am I probably don't have any right to throw any tea into Lady Bird Lake, Oh! I mean Boston Harbor. I did not see Paul Revere riding down Congress Ave in downtown Austin nor did I hear him hollowing "the British are coming, the British are coming" so what's all the fuss?
One lump or two, I'll take my tea straight! President Obama you can spend the nation's taxes any way you want. At least I know you will spend the taxes to benefit the masses not the rich few that the last president did.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Emissaries from Heaven
On the eve of every religious holiday I began to become more religious in my thinking. Easter has always been the religious period that has dominated my feelings about God and everything that goes along with the bible. God is kind of like a president, God being the president of the universe. The average Joe never gets in to see the president but can visit with his emissaries from time to time. That's just how the Big Kahuna works in our lives and you never know when one of those visits is about to happen. He sends his emissaries in the form of angles but what exactly are angles? Are they real?
Angles are often seen in flowing robs. Sometimes they look like humans with wings and are always dressed in white. They are close to God so if you believe in God you must believe in angles. Even if you have never seen an angle there certainly have been times in your life when you have felt you were surrounded by demons yet you were able to walk past the gates of Hell without so much as a sound.
I like the ideal that someone is watching over me. If the world wants to call them angles that's OK with me because I am sure an angle or two has saved my ass more than once. I definitely believe there is a spiritual force out there, I don't have to see a human with wings dressed in white to believe in that force. There is just too much stuff that happens to us that we can't explain or stuff we try to chalk up to coincidence for us not to believe something is controlling our destiny.
I can hear you now, "If you believe in angles I guess you believe in Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer"! Real or imagined it makes no difference I am still going to watch Clarence earn his wings by helping out George Baily every year in It's a Wonderful Life.
For all us less than halo worthy creatures, knowing that something can move from heaven to earth and bring with it our mothers wishes is very comforting. When ever I find people who inspire me, people who motivate me or people who comfort me I am touching an angle in some way. Angles really occur in life as often as you want them to so this Easter I will celebrate angles in what ever form they may take.
Angles are often seen in flowing robs. Sometimes they look like humans with wings and are always dressed in white. They are close to God so if you believe in God you must believe in angles. Even if you have never seen an angle there certainly have been times in your life when you have felt you were surrounded by demons yet you were able to walk past the gates of Hell without so much as a sound.
I like the ideal that someone is watching over me. If the world wants to call them angles that's OK with me because I am sure an angle or two has saved my ass more than once. I definitely believe there is a spiritual force out there, I don't have to see a human with wings dressed in white to believe in that force. There is just too much stuff that happens to us that we can't explain or stuff we try to chalk up to coincidence for us not to believe something is controlling our destiny.
I can hear you now, "If you believe in angles I guess you believe in Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer"! Real or imagined it makes no difference I am still going to watch Clarence earn his wings by helping out George Baily every year in It's a Wonderful Life.
For all us less than halo worthy creatures, knowing that something can move from heaven to earth and bring with it our mothers wishes is very comforting. When ever I find people who inspire me, people who motivate me or people who comfort me I am touching an angle in some way. Angles really occur in life as often as you want them to so this Easter I will celebrate angles in what ever form they may take.
Friday, April 03, 2009
Slam Dunk
The NCAA basketball playoff started with 65 of the best college basketball teams in America. Now all but four have been eliminated. If you are a fan of the game maybe it's time to pause for a moment an look at what is happening off the court.
The very best players are using college basketball as a one year stopover, passing time until they become 19 years of age and are eligible for the NBA draft. These super athletes pay just enough attention to the classroom work in their first semester at college to ensure a season of eligibility. Once the first semester is completed they could care less about their grades. Basketball fans only encourage this more by looking the other way when infractions enter the picture. All the fans really care about is if their team is a slam dunk for the final four in the NCAA tournament.
NCAA basketball is a question of priorities. It's a game that's out of control and can't be regulated by today's NCAA governing board. Why are sports connected to an educational program anyway? Why don't institutions of higher learning stick to the basics like reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies and the rest of the academics that goes along with a college degree? Why, because college basketball is big business and big business controls most of everything in one way or another.
I guess it's best to close our eyes to all this and hope our favorite college can develop a Final Four team without breaking too many of the rules along the way. College basketball is much more enjoyable if concentrating on the fun factor is priority number 1 while remembering that spirit and healthy competition does have value. If life was only about economics woes, worry, homework, hard work, and misery the world would never know the joys of a slam dunk.
The very best players are using college basketball as a one year stopover, passing time until they become 19 years of age and are eligible for the NBA draft. These super athletes pay just enough attention to the classroom work in their first semester at college to ensure a season of eligibility. Once the first semester is completed they could care less about their grades. Basketball fans only encourage this more by looking the other way when infractions enter the picture. All the fans really care about is if their team is a slam dunk for the final four in the NCAA tournament.
NCAA basketball is a question of priorities. It's a game that's out of control and can't be regulated by today's NCAA governing board. Why are sports connected to an educational program anyway? Why don't institutions of higher learning stick to the basics like reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies and the rest of the academics that goes along with a college degree? Why, because college basketball is big business and big business controls most of everything in one way or another.
I guess it's best to close our eyes to all this and hope our favorite college can develop a Final Four team without breaking too many of the rules along the way. College basketball is much more enjoyable if concentrating on the fun factor is priority number 1 while remembering that spirit and healthy competition does have value. If life was only about economics woes, worry, homework, hard work, and misery the world would never know the joys of a slam dunk.
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