Me, according to Amazon...

I logged on to Amazon.com today, and I was browsing through the recommendations they had for me. At the bottom of the page, they list a number of categories that they thought would sum up my interests. They are as follows:

Action & Adventure Afghanistan British Business & Investing Classics Cognitive Psychology Comedy Conservatism Decision-Making & Problem Solving Economics Family Saga Finance Foreign Exchange Futures Grant, Cary Leadership Management Politics Statistics Stocks U.S. United States War Women World Literature

It's quite a telling picture really. All except for Cary Grant, I'm pretty sure I bought those movies for gifts.

I Don't Care!

I always like to compare major news networks' homepages to see what stories they have headlined. Currently, as I type this, at 4:58am eastern time, Fox News' big headline is about some lady who's kid got snatched by a person pretending to be an immigration agent. I don't care. I couldn't care less. It's not that I'm calloused to people's problems; I am quite capable of empathy, and on rare occasions, even sympathy, but honestly, this is not national news. CNN's big story is that a "controversial former Japan official is found dead." Once again, you guessed it, I don't care.

Furthermore, I can count about 4 stories on CNN's home page that I am even remotely interested in. Meanwhile, I'm pretty interested in every other story on Fox's front page. The only story on their page I'm not interested in is this mess with some ladies kid, who she got back, then lost to the state because of "safety concerns." Why do I know about that? That's exactly the point I'm trying to make, just from skimming their home page, I know far more about this person than I ever cared to know. Meanwhile, we have real issues going on all around us! No wonder the public is so damned uninformed. The media is baffling us with bullshit!

There were eight troops killed in Afghanistan today. From the front page of both sites, that's all the information I have. Eight US lives lost to a war that Obama ignored to go lobby for the Olympics that most citizens didn't want, but I know no details about it unless I click on the story. Meanwhile, I know that some Japanese guy got drunk at a news conference earlier this year, and he is now dead, oh and also some lady lost her baby, but got it back, only to lose that child, and several others for being a bad parent.

This is a travesty. Our citizenry, if you can call it that with a straight face, is asleep at the wheel. We accept mediocrity in every arena of life. We glide through life as if this is a dress rehearsal. We put off changing the things that need changing in order to be vaguely entertained by other people's dramas. That is bullshit. We currently have two wars going on, even though people like to pretend that one is over, and the other one, well, they are still trying to decide if they are going to call that one quits or not. We have Iran building nukes, or at the very least working on it. We have natural disasters a plenty, that's at least somewhat newsworthy, (of course, those stories always get hijacked to push the "green" agenda). I could go on and no about the real issues, there are more than enough of them to fill a page.

I care about the big issues, but when it comes to personal problems of people I don't know, and will never know, particularly problems that are brought about through bad decision making. I DON'T CARE! My life isn't interesting, and neither is yours. We all have our own shit, and ultimately, nobody cares but you and yours! In the last year I've had gigantic, life altering events, which I alluded to briefly in a post entitled, Sometimes Life Kicks Your Ass, beyond that, you don't know about them. Do you know why? Because you don't care! And neither do I.

(I've edited this post about 4 times since publishing it, mainly because I typed it in a pissed off hurry. I'd like to point out, that I understand that if you are reading this blog, you are probably at least somewhat like me, and therefore, don't care either. In fact, I expect to accomplish nothing from this post, other than to rant to the anonymous masses who may someday read this).

Bowel Movement Bandit

I know that the title of this post may be a bit misleading. However, I must explain to you, I do not steal bowel movements. No, far from being a turd thief, I am referring to my recent propensity to steal the reading material out of the community bathroom of my work place. It seems that if you put a book shelf in a bathroom, people are going to stock it with their leftover magazines, and on rare occasions, books.

You may remember a recent post where I explained this whole phenomenon in more detail. Well, I have hit the jack pot over the course of the past week or so, and felt that I should share. I have now stolen three "The Economist" magazines, or would you call them journals? I'm not sure about that one. Also, I just now, in the past ten minutes, stole "The Life of Andrew Jackson" by Robert V. Remini. It is an abridgment of his previous volumes, but it should be a great read. I know that the Militant Archivist will be pleased.

Don't watch Sean Hannity...

Or else you'll be as pissed off at the crazy liberals as I am. I swear, the Fox News Hannity show has been hitting the nail on the head this past week, of course, the Socialists have given ole' Sean plenty to rant and rave about. Have you all seen the video of the school children singing the praises of Obama? First off, WTF!? If that had been Bush's name in the lyrics of the songs they were singing, the main stream media would have lost their mind, the ACLU would have stepped in, all hell would have broken loose. Instead, Hannity got pissed, and CNN said "well, I don't really see what the big deal is, that happened 7 months ago." Are you serious? What is the statute of limitations on crazy radical teachers and school administrators indoctrinating children?

Also, I've been seeing the coverage of these protests of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. I had no idea how many Americans hate capitalism. Once again, are you kidding me?! Seriously, someone has to be joking. Hannity had two college girls, (they would call themselves women, but where I come from, that implies that one has their shit together and handles their own issues), so I will call them girls, anyway, they had no idea what they were arguing about. They were against capitalism, but I'd like to know who was paying their tuition, and how they would've been able to go to that school if it were not for capitalism. One of these girls even said "why does anyone need to make more than $500,000 a year?" At that point I was standing up, screaming at my television, "because they fucking can!" These leaches, these parasites, they feel like people who are wealthy are obligated to share their money with those who are not. If that kind of thinking makes sense to you, then please comment, and come back often, I would love to know how people come to that kind of conclusion, so maybe we can find a way to counter it. God knows that reason, logic, and facts hasn't worked.