Just so you guys don’t think I’m some googly-eyed myopic Obama fan who can’t see what’s really happening in Washington, I give you John Scalzi’s analysis of Obama’s First 100 Days.
I think he speaks for all of us, don’t you? Except possibly in the matter of Rosario Dawson… I would have to go with Jodie Foster or Johnny Depp, myself. And I might have to add the fact that I have not yet won the Mega Millions lottery, in spite of repeated requests through my Senators to bring this to the President’s attention.
Enjoy your Sunday.
*Waves thank you to Scalzi through the internets for a good laugh on a beautiful day.*
Okay, so we have to maintain a sense of proportion and a sense of humor. But let’s not debunk our psychic certainty that everything is better, even after only a hundred days.
Sometimes, okay all the time, I feel so damn blog illiterate. This guy is funny and apparently writes. What I don’t know yet but jeez he apparently knows Wil Wheaton, too. Anyway, he’s right, most of the important changes are still out there in a holding pattern. And I think I’m supposed to win that lotto thing, too.
Rhbee, my great grandmother had a saying, “If wishes were horses the beggars would ride and if horse turds were doughnuts we’d eat ’til we died.” I think she meant we also have to DO something.
The problem with aphorisms is that too often they rely on prejudice or cultural differences to make their point. The idea that someone is on the bottom because they don’t DO anything is only useful if you are the one riding the horse. As for horse turds and doughnuts, I don’t find either one very inspiring.
But since I have to go off to the crisis center where I do neighborhood volunteer work and then stop by my community garden plot to water and weed, I really don’t have a lot of spare time to discuss whether winning the lotto would change my life or my point of view very much. Caio!