Monday, August 27, 2007

Random Thoughts

I'm grumpy and tired, which is always a bad combination, but can bring up interesting thoughts.

--Work is good for the soul but can be exhausting physically and mentally even when it is boring.

--Don't go to Wal-Mart the night of the first day of school. Every parent who didn't buy their school supplies before school started will be there. And there are a lot of them.

--Anyone else notice that the number of available checkers went down significantly with the introduction of "Fast Lane Self Service"? Now the self service lines are as bad as the "full service" ones.

--I met Alberto Gonzales once and thought he was a nice and smart guy. I'm saddened by his tenure as Attorney General, both for its incompetence and its inability to deal with partisan politics. Gonzales' resignation will do nothing to stop the Democrat witch hunt determined to "oversight" the president into submission.

--Larry Craig should resign. Yes, yes, I know there's a double standard where Republican and Democrat malfeasance is concerned. Democrats seem to applaud bad behavior--or at least excuse it--from their politicians. But let's face it. Republicans have a higher standard and we should hold them to it.

--Women are some of the rudest and most dangerous customers in a grocery store. They aggressively move into the lane of traffic without concern for the people they cut off, they block aisles while getting their own groceries, and they completely ignore the people they cut off as they move from place to place. I'd hate to see what their driving is like, but maybe I already have.

--I listened to Michael Vick's statement today concerning the dog fighting flap. I was fairly impressed with the way he took responsibility for his actions until he declared that he'd found Jesus through this event. It's not that I don't necessarily believe him, but why is it that people always want to declare they found Jesus after they get caught? Jesus was there all along.