Do I Really Need to Know?

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Me too. And I've just about given up watching television news broadcasts.

Now, if I could just stop reading the news online.

Who said it? No news is good news.

Wouldn't I, Though

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
- Rita Rudner

Me, too, although I think it may be too late.

And go ahead. Judge me. I can take it. And besides, whatever.

It's kind of like me wanting a car for every day of the week.

Never happen.

It's What I Think Too

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Amen.

I was thinking just this morning that I call myself a Republican because I want small government, people to be strong and independent, government to serve and protect the rights of the people but to stay out of their way, out of their lives.

But.

I do not currently like the Republican Party. The party politics, the debt, the movement of many in the party towards the left, the "go along" mentality. And I understand the birth and growth of the Tea Party.

Of course, I don't currently like the Democrats either. I mean, what they espouse, what they see as the place of government. Like, it can and should fix EVERYTHING.

But again.

Some of my very best friends are Democrats.

And.

I appreciated President Obama's speech Wednesday night in Tucson. I felt he was sincere. Okay, I know, it didn't hurt him politically. But I thought it was what he needed to do, needed to say.

Still.

I do not and will not believe in what he believes in about government. I will always resist that.

Get it?

Hmmm

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead

And women? What are they working to become?