All Posts Tagged With: "insanity"

I saw this headline on MSNBC: “Obama defends his overseas trip.” My simple question is, “Why?” Why should he have to defend it?

Obama’s opponents have, prior to this trip, criticized Obama for not having visited Iraq or Afghanistan recently and for being weak on foreign policy. Obama answer the challenge and his opponents are not criticizing for visiting Iraq and Afghanistan and Europe.

This election season is literally making me sick to my stomach. I’m just plain tired of it.

I’m now actively avoiding news programs and any shows that might cover the candidates. I’ve stopped reading blogs and websites that are consumed by the daily grind of the campaign. I’ve restricted myself to culling my news from online news sources, but find myself having to dig through all the oversaturation of election coverage to find out what else is happening in the world outside of politics.

This is the last post about politics that you’ll read for the foreseeable future — or at least until the VP picks are in and I weigh in on that. Seriously, I am beyond my tolerance of the political coverage, and I have a pretty high tolerance (and appetite) for this type of stuff. This election cycle has been as exhausting and absurdly extreme as I’ve ever experienced. And I’m disconnecting for a while… for my sanity.

“Are we there yet?” is the question that keeps running through my mind. Election Day couldn’t come fast enough.

As a follow-up to my post a couple of days about about my “not-so-excellent adventure” during my morning commute on Wednesday, I was taken aback a bit by a comment by a reader on another blog. Oklahoma’s iconic blog dustbury linked to my post, under the much better headline “Duel on the Broadway Extension,” which led to comments on his blog and quite a few new visitors to my blog — thank you, Mr. Hill!

While I’m not immune or even adverse to critical comments, one particular commenter’s remarks caught me by surprise. Apparently, I wasn’t the victim of road rage, but rather than instigator of an understandable reaction by another driver that I egregiously inconvenienced. You see, from this commenter’s viewpoint, I was asking for it… Continued

Let me first say that I hate traffic. My blood pressure has to jump by more than 25 points automatically when hitting rush hour traffic — and that’s before I encounter the inevitable idiots, morons and just-plain-mean drivers. This morning’s commute proved to be much more “exciting” than I ever wanted … and not the good kind of excitement, but rather the heart-pounding, adrenaline-rushing, gut-wrenching, fear-filled kind of excitement. By the time I got out of my car when I arrived downtown, I felt completely drained and my stomach still churning in knots. Continued