Not sure where to begin, let alone end

I am back. It took a while to come back, yet again, but back I am. As I read that, I am thinking that Dr. Suess wrote that. That is fitting, as the good doctor's birthday is coming up (January 18th, which is the same day as the Lad's 14th birthday....the other 13 were, oddly enough, on different dates, but who is counting).

The Leafs are winning. They have 4 in a row and are playing in Phoenix, er Glendale, AZ, tonight. If they can win their 5th in a row, I am thinking that we have to plan the Stanley Cup Championship parade route. Oh yeah, that and Santa Claus exist, yet somehow Willie does not (damn, I wish I could remember how I proved that 25+ years ago. What logic did I use, it all seemed so plausible---apparently, I had not learned that alcohol and sleep deprivation were the enemies of logic and rational thought).

We have some weird weather. Well, not here in the Great White North. We have typical January-type temperatures, cold but not too cold and some, not a lot, snow on the ground. Apparently, we are to get more snow (how fucking boring am I that I am commenting on the fucking weather, as if anybody cares) on Saturday (that thought, apparently, has not stopped my from continuing the thought). Anybody that was on the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico side of Mexico or the Dominican Republic would know from odd/bad weather. They had a lot of cloud and rain. Then again, any warm rain, is better than cold and snow, though we did have rain around the new year.

Speaking of new year, we are heading into the Chinese new year. It is the year of the rabbit. The metal rabbit to be exact. I am not sure what came first the actual rabbit or the rabbit vibrator. That metal rabbit must some mean feat of industrial design and engineering. We do, indeed, live in interesting times. Now, if we can do something about crazy climate extremes, North Korea, Iran, and extremism.

That brings me to last Saturday's shooting in Tucson. It is funny how both sides (Republicans and Democrats) seem to want to blame the shooting on the other side. I am not sure if it was politically motivated, at all. This Jared Loughner seems (great work in hindsight) to be rather unbalanced. I am not sure he is on any "side". He really appears, from what I have read, which is not much, to be on the crazy edge. It is kind of reminding me of the 1980-82 period, with the shootings of John Lennon, Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II. Only JPII had political connections (a Turk working for the Bulgarians as part of the KGB's/USSR's sphere of influence).

I do not know what it all, or any of it, means. In the grand scheme of things, I can see it, the shooting of a congresswoman, being used as a pretext to further separate politicians from the people they are supposed to serve. In that sense, it merely speeds the separation of a ruling elite from their constituents. Bring on the king, the public should have NO access to those who are supposed to represent them. This will make it so much more difficult to follow the money and really be assured as to who "owns" the politicians and whose bidding they will do. In any event, it ain't good.

Then again, an asteroid, or even Mother Earth and the Sun can hit that reset button and we will be like the dinosaurs...a forgotten relic. Of course, if you take your Bible literally, then dinosaurs never existed and in that vein, neither did we. All this begs the question as put first by Pink Floyd, "Is there anybody out there?"

Ciao!