The Sky is Falling

A general trend the last seven years has been to keep everyone scared. The Catholic Church used to do this in the middle ages to keep their flock subservient on the outside chance there really was a hell. Now politicians do it to keep people marching lockstep behind any inane policy.

The saddest part of this is that some people know better than to scare people but they do it to hold on to power. The other people just are susceptible to fear. If there is a .0000000000001 percent chance the sky could fall they will act as if there is a 99.9999999999 percent certainty that it will.

Some smart and not so nice people know that about you.

Guazy Memories

The Right is frequently rambling on about trying to hang on to some idealized value or idea that never really existed such as the 1950s. You know, when Republican President Eisenhower was warning about the military industrial complex that the Right loves so much now and compulsively feeds.

Then there's the great stuff about how minorities were treated in the good old days, and women, and disabled people and...But don't let the truth get in the way, the idealized memory is always softer and you also don't have to look at what a jerk you are.

The rich did well as always if I recall correctly. Even though the tax rate was much higher than what it is now.

Guns and God

People get so mad when someone points out they vote on guns and God. Then they go to church and go target shooting. Then they vote on guns and God.

Relaxed Martha Stewart

Could Martha Stewart be any more obsessive compulsive? I worry she'll explode one day from trying too hard to be perfect. So much money, so little happiness.

Workaholics

Just saw a statistic that we take less vacation than other developed countries and that many people are afraid of taking vacation because they might lose their job or look bad. Just another example of our kind, supportive society at work. All work and no play makes Jack a head case.

This Protestant work ethic gives us a lot of headaches and generates a lot of humorless workaholics who don't know how to connect on any other level other than work.

US Post Office Stamp Prices

Another sign the economy has tanked in the last seven years is how frequently stamp prices would go up. Remember the days when stamp prices didn't go up every year or six months?

The Rich Create Jobs

If this were true, we would have the most wonderful employment figures ever and the middle class would be doing great because the last seven years has created an explosion of these supposedly job-creating rich people. The key word in trickle down economics is trickle. You can't pay for expensive healthcare, energy, food, mortgage and gas with a trickle.