There's Parts I Like and Parts I Don't Like

So the Hollywood writers are trying to get the writers of reality shows covered under the terms of the new contract. "Reality" TV has writers? "Yes, I'm a writer for a reality TV show." That's about like saying you're Arnold Schwarzenegger's fitness trainer or Meryl Streep's acting coach.


The misery of it:

Midwest Ice Storm Causes Blackouts, Traffic Deaths

I love Oklahoma...I love just about everything about Oklahoma...even, to a very limited degree, the ice storms. The wonderful thing about Oklahoma's ice storms is that they're brief and relatively rare. Colorado might brag about its here-today-gone-tomorrow snowstorms (if bragging were somehow required), but they're still much more plentiful than Oklahoma's storms, and we Okies actually know how to handle such things: we shut everything down. EVERYTHING. Snow and ice are obviously a sign from God that it's time for a nice day off for everyone, and we listen to His word. I still remember with great fondness every snow day I got while growing up in Oklahoma...you get to sit inside and watch TV, or maybe go out and try your hand in your frozen backyard, trying not to kill yourself by slipping and sliding everywhere. It's a pity that Coloradans haven't learned that lesson yet, where it takes at least a solid, unrelenting foot of snow or more for the local school superintendents and business leaders to maybe think twice about forcing their kids and their workers to risk their lives. (Besides, if the snow were really as infrequent, as short-lived, and as not-so-bad as you seem to pretend, why do you continue to budget so much for plows and sand trucks every year? Isn't that just wasted tax dollars? I KNEW Referendum C was a big rip-off...)

But on a more serious note, our prayers go out to all my Okie brothers and sisters today. Stay safe and warm today (and possibly tomorrow), as God intended.


I've been thinking about this recent topic we've seen with global warming, namely that people are bad for the planet. I can't wait until some defense attorney takes it to heart and tries to get his serial killer client off of multiple murder charges by saying, "But Your Honor, he was simply trying to do his part to stop global warming!"


The Ben Folds version of the Dr. Dre's "B*tches Ain't Sh*t," or the Ricky Skaggs/Bruce Hornsby version of Rick James' "Super Freak?" Discuss.


Heidi and I were discussing our respective home states this evening while preparing for bed, particularly as it pertains to the pronunciation of Olathe (that's "Oh-LAY-thee" to you non-Kansans):

H: "At least I finally get to correct YOU, after all those times you corrected me with those crazy Oklahoma names like Chick-a-say."

C: [deftly ignoring the trap so cleverly laid by my wife] "So you must be really conflicted...where do you consider yourself a native? Are you a native Kansan because you were born there, or are you a native Coloradan because you were raised here? Or do you do some weird dual-citizenship thing?"

H: [blank stare]

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