All this Republican delay is killing Christmas on the Hill. But I don’t care too much about that (except for the staff and police officers). What I care about is that people down there are threatening to stop reading blogs.
The marathon debate on health-care legislation has become the “era of the unexpected,” Lauren Gilchrist said. As the top health policy aide to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Gilchrist has been working on overdrive. “You don’t want to be that crazy person who e-mails at 3:30 in the morning, but sometimes you are,” she said.
Gilchrist said she has been clocking so many hours that she long ago stopped cooking her meals and hasn’t been to the gym since August. “It got to a point where there was a bag of Halloween candy and I’d eaten everything except those really gross candy corns,” she said.
When the voting is finally over, Gilchrist, 33, plans to fly home to Minnesota and stay for a while. “I’m going to cook, hang out with my friends and family, exercise again, read novels and things that are not blogs, and be normal again.”
Am I wrong? Is she saying I’m not normal? Well, at least I didn’t buy all my relatives a United States Senate mug for Christmas this year. Who the hell wants one of those after watching these idiots squabble and lurch about ineffectually all year. The only people who don’t hate the Senate and most senators are the people who don’t even know who the president is. And, by the way, those people exist. I met someone the other day who didn’t realize we had a new president until sometime in March. They weren’t even ashamed to admit it. It was like a badge of honor that they managed to remain so out of touch.
Sometimes I wish I could be like them.
Ewww…
You can be a regularly informed guy without being obsessed like we all are. Lol.
Lately I can relate. I can read only my favorite blogs and I can’t stand to watch ANY of the msnbc, CNN, etc crap.
I am trying to watch more movies instead.
I can’t watch any of them anymore. I find myself watching the fringe stuff on the off cable channels. Speed, Food, Top Chef, AMC.
Strange stuff.
nalbar
“Sometimes I wish I could be like them.”
While that might make you more happy, you’d be depriving the blogosphere some much needed reality based commentary!
I have a good friend with whom I never discuss politics. For one thing, we are on complete opposite sides of practically every issue. For another thing, she never watches the news and basically gets all of her information from the sermons in her Evangelical church, so you can just imagine what her views are.
Yet we have been friends for more than twenty years and all the other things in life that don’t revolve around politics are safe for us. It’s just a matter of perspective and being able to separate the issues. We are not oblivious to problems, but we set them aside and focus on the things we do share.
It’s all good.
That’s so hard to do. I have been seeing a guy for a couple of years who is, I’m afraid, a bit of a teabagger. But everything else about him is pretty nice. It’s just that he was raised in the south and everyone in his family and all of his friends have the same beliefs he does, so to deviate from that would be like trashing his family. At first (when Bush was in office) we just didn’t talk about politics. He was all fine and dandy with the way things were going and I was just biting my tongue, knowing that change was coming. Now he’s convinced the country has been taken over by mindless radicals pushing a socialist agenda and soon there will be no choice but for a group of patriots to take up arms and overthrow the government before all of our freedoms are taken away. It seems like there are no safe subjects to talk about because it all seems to point out our political, moral and ideological differences. The environment, gender issues, the economy, religion…all out of bounds. It’s getting harder to maintain this relationship. :/
a couple of my bluegrass buddies are teabaggers too. I’ve found a way to bridge the gap though.
when they bitch about the socialist agenda blah blah and the awful democrats, I start pointing out how alike the two parties are in terms of not representing the base, accomplishing anything good for anyone, and being owned by corporations.
then i mention my support for Ron Paul, and everything’s good again.
Are those the “novelty” ones which reveal a big dick up the middle of the mug as you slurp your tea?
Being forced to read blogs as part of your job is abnormal.
Reading blogs because you like to read those writers is normal–except on holidays. On holidays, that says that the kids and grandkids are visiting the other set of grandparents this year. Or that you live alone and all of your friends are with their families.
if any of my relatives bought me a senate mug for christmas, i would throw it at them.
either that, or use it for when i have to give the doctor a urine sample.