But then, Michael Vick fits that category too, which some may argue that Satan is involved as well

You miight not like Tim Tebow for his somewhat uncomfortably deep religious convictions, but there might be no better proof of a higher power than the fact that he is not only still in the National Football League, but has actually won a few games.

And OK, not when I had an Evening Bulletin paper route either, though I did complain about the thermometer setting quite often

Three things that have happened in every place I've ever worked:

1 - Staff complains about a lack of communication

2 - People can't agree on the thermometer setting

3 - Someone puts up a sign over the kitchen sink saying "Your mother doesn't work here, clean up after yourself!"

Well, except when I worked at the paper mill, seeing as how people's kitchens were in their lunch buckets.

Of course, it has my dad on there too, so hopefully that has nothing to do with his life in the great beyond!

Wow, at least someone besides Cheryl thinks I'm hot. This website thinks so too:

http://www.hot-people.info/ChesterSpr_PA_Catherine-McLaughlin_Barbara-Mo.html

Well, from me anyway.

Yet another reason I'm hoping Jon Hunstman comes out of nowhere to win the R nomination:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOYVB2hc0HA



Sadly, the only way he can get any attention.

Well, actually, now it's both.

It used to be that I couldn't hear the name "Rick Santorum" without being repulsed. Now I can't hear the word "froth" without the same reaction.

And if you don't know why, google either one.

I protest those who protest the protestors!

Interesting to me that where we had all feared the Occupy Wall Street protestors might turn violent at some point and lose any support they may have generated from all walks of life and corners of the world, it was in fact, the Oakland Police who lost control of themselves first.

(Yes, 7, not 17 or even 37.)

With the occasional entry to this blog as an example, I like to think I sometimes look at things differently from the way they are usually seen. But if that is so, I also need to accept/admit that I am way slower to reach some other conclusions, or accept common wisdom that everyone else learned and understood when they were, like, 7.

I always thought I knew what folks meant by Don't judge a book by its cover. Or at least, I guess I just used a narrow definition of it that had more to do with blacks or minorities in general, which in retrospect, seems kind of racist or maybe just condescending or patronizing on my part in a small way: Yes, yes, they are just like me! I like to think THAT is common widom now, tho that's probably naive.

But at some point, I wish I could remember the exact moment, in the past few weeks, I realized it also includes fat, nerdy, ugly, lopsided people of all random coverings. I realized I'd be much more drawn, for instance, to a person at a party who I found attractive or who had some sort of seeming gravitas. Or I'd look at someone on the street who would generally be affixed the technical term of Loser, and immediately discount anything they might have to add to my general wherewithal or understanding of the world.

Also in retrospect, I'd like to apologize to all those losers...equally interesting people. In the end, I wonder if I've hurt the people I treated so brusquely or myself more, not just from a karma standpoint, but on all the knowledge and insight I've missed and avoided absorbing.