By Brad on Apr 10, 2008 in Daily Grind, Trivial Matters | comments(2)
Working off insufficient sleep and excessive creative drain from a heavy workload, I’m suffering from a little bit of writer’s block. So, you’re stuck with another edition of random ramblings…
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Are we there yet?
I am so ready for this presidential campaign season to come to a close… and there’s still another seven months to go. Would it be possible to have a news channel that covers news other than what’s happening with any one of or all of the presidential candidates? I would love to know what’s going on in the world, but I’m so sick of the politics of this campaign, I have to turn off every news station to avoid hearing anything about it. Fortunately, I have the Internet that allows me to more effectively filter my news. What did we ever do without the Internet?!?
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By Brad on Mar 6, 2008 in Trivial Matters | comments(1)
Since I’m (desperately) trying to stop talking and writing about politics for awhile, I now find myself wondering what to talk about. The campaign can be all consuming, especially with the oversaturation of it on the airwaves and on the Internet. But, I am going to discipline myself to focus on other things, which led to this first installment of Random Ramblings…
- One of my biggest pet peeves are people who only think of themselves and don’t care how their actions impact others. A subset of that group are people who litter, especially while driving. Nearly every day, I see someone roll down their window and throw out a piece of trash — sometimes it’s a cigarette, but more often it’s a small wrapper of some sort. A variant of this are pickup drivers who use their pickup bed as a trash can, only to have that trash fly out of the bed as they drive down the road.
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Litterers: Our community and roadways are not your free-for-all trash can. We shouldn’t have to live with your trash because you’re too lazy to throw it away in an appropriate trash receptacle. Your selfishness is galling. How would you like it if everyone in the community decided to return the favor and dump their trash on your front lawn? It’s thoughtless, it’s moronic and it’s disgusting. Continued
