Whomever picks the music at my gym in the morning should really be ashamed; while I would prefer hard rock I would settle for some heart pumping modern R&B. Instead I am treated every other morning when I lift to a mix of Lilith Fair era girl rock, college era downer alternative & the best of all, techno remixes.

This morning they actually played techno remixes of Cher & Cheryl Crow. Why would anyone in the world make a techno mix of Cheryl Crow? Nothing gets me more pumped than Meredith Brooks followed by some techno Cher!

The transition of that place to an all gay gym is going to be so smooth I am not sure I will notice until it is too late!

Let me be blunt, for most people I am not a big believer in marriage, I think they should just skip the wedding and stay single. When I hear the debate over gay marriage I find it hard to defend a system that I believe is historically and specifically meant to be between a man and a woman but is on the brink of absolute destruction not because of homosexuality but because of the absence of sanity and values that accompany the practice with heterosexuals. Marriage has been turned from a sacred union to a freak show used as an escape from reality and a continuation of the void that is many peoples continuing lives. Half of all first marriages fail; second and third marriage are just as abysmal. It is difficult if not impossible to defend marriage from those who wish to change its definition when its practice for most straight people ends in failure; I do mean failure too, we need to tell it like it is. Despite the rash of celebratory ‘divorce parties’ divorced is failure and unless a union ends to remove oneself from real abuse, it should not be celebrated but reflected upon and given serious internal review.

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As I drove past a local gas station last night I thought about the stimulus and in a true moment of schadenfreude I chuckled. You see each and every year I am astounded by the hysterical nature of our nation; it is an almost immutable law that crude oil prices rise in the summer and lower in the winter. People travel in the summer and more energy is used to cool buildings and machinery making the cost to produce power rise creating a cycle that loops and feeds back into itself. We run amusement parks, we drive more, we fly more, we do almost everything imaginable that can cause a rise in oil prices.

This is of course a matter of supply and demand and yet each time Congress acts as if it is the first and only time, businesses make layoffs pretending the same, people complain and complain and then complain some more forgetting that this is a temporary spike and believing instead it is an end to Western civilization. Then, October and November comes and the problem goes away.

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On a personal note I am VERY tired. So far sentiment with those around me is not good for this archaic biannual practice of completely unsettling our entire way of life by changing the clocks back and forth. The last two days I have been beyond agitated with every human being I come in contact with; luckily I am getting the same vibe from everyone else.

This morning I ran into eight people who are feeling ill with a stomach bug and I am downing vitamins, smoothies and anything that even looks healthy to fend off the impending doom. I have the weakest immune system conceived, my internal infantry could be sunk by the Polish Navy and comes second only to my ancestral Sicily in consistency for invasion. For those who speak Battestar Galactica, humans did a better job defending the twelve colonies against Cylon invasion than my body has done fending off attack by miniscule bacteria. Watch out, in the future I could well be Patient Zero for some unknown disease that humans had been immune from for centuries but found a host to mutate in with me.

Still, I blame DST for my current energy downturn and the misery I am finding amongst company today. Please for the love of all that is holy STOP this DST nonsense. We need to keep the clocks where they are and ruff it with the sunlight. It was pitch black outside this morning and two weeks ago it was bright and sunny at the same clock time. THIS ISN’T HELPING. PLEASE STOP! END THE MADNESS!

The crowds chanted “Obama” yesterday as the President-Elect spoke; while their ebullience was understandable their cry for the man and not the institution was disquieting. I understand fully the excitement of the moment and its historic implications; the first half black leader, the breaking of barriers, the fulfillment of dreams, but all inaugurations, even the ones adding a term, represent change and renew the American dream. It is the peaceful transfer of power, the foresight of our founders and the office itself that are at the heart of this celebration, not the fleeting rule of any one individual or Party. There have been and will be many firsts for the office but the most important to remember is that this office was the first of its kind in the world and the longest to endure.

I hear so many on the left eager for the man but contentious to the institution. Just as Michelle Obama once rejoiced in newfound love for her nation because of her husband’s candidacy, so too are many engaging in a disingenuous appreciation for their Republic rooted not in its principals but in its new leader. They appear to have love of the man but not the institution, hope for a Party ideology and not the ideology of a nation that can never be perfect but is righteous in its recognition that liberty is the everlasting root of prosperity.

Tomorrow Barack Obama will take office, his arrival ordained by the voice of millions. He will make his mark on the institution and leave a legacy for the nation. After a time he too will participate in an inaugural ceremony, standing on the opposite side, handing the office to another whose leadership will be ordained by the voice of millions. The office and the Republic, the dream is more than any one man or woman, more than any one election or time in history.

I am disheartened to see so many sing the praises of our nation now after spending the last eight years spitting venom not just at a President with whom they disagreed but toward a Republic they disavowed. They have changed their tune simply because of one man they now worship and not from true love of their nation. The strength of our Republic is that it is above one leader, it is not just Washington or Lincoln but the sum total of all who hold office, all who have and will give to the cause.

We too on the right must accept that Obama is the steward of an office. I have heard some too eager to disavow the system, to take this moment as evidence that the dream is dead or that there is no longer a place for them in this Republic. I understand the sting, I too oppose the man, but I can no more disavow the Republic as I can rip out the spirit housed within my flesh. My belief in our way of life is unwavering and this moment in time is fleeting, my liberty everlasting.

It would have been nice to hear chants of “America” or “U.S.A” or “Freedom” instead of worship of a man yesterday. I understand the excitement and I will not begrudge those who turned out for a concert and found it necessary to declare a unified love of a leader. I am, of course, fearful that tomorrow the man is all they will see. I hold out hope that their appreciation for Obama will be consecrated with a love of a nation and a history with which they don’t always agree. I hope too that we the opposition can take appreciation in the same; the passing of power from one to another for a brief time is a sacred rite that cannot be diminished because of a disagreement over whom power should be given.

We are a nation more than a man, woman or moment in time and our union thrives, even in dark times, because of this.

So I spent the morning dealing with the USPS and what a LOVELY and competent group of people I dealt with. They managed to deliver an overnight package in two days instead of overnight, have their online tracking system explode and create an enormously bloated system that forced me to go to a service center in order to find a phone number that would connect me with an actual human being! At least they put ONE PERSON at the desk two weeks before Christmas to deal with the line of people sending packages.

I cannot wait until the government takes over my health care!

Disjointed thoughts lacking rejoinder.

- If you listened to Glenn Beck today you may need to be on 24 hour suicide watch; seriously talk about your maudlin days. Luckily some folks on Twitter noticed it too and said something, I thought I was alone!

Seriously the economy is bad and socialism may be taking over but things aren’t that… bad… wait, maybe they are. DAMN YOU GLENN BECK! DAMN YOU TO HELL.

- I haven’t shaved in a couple of days and I am to that point where I am looking in the mirror and thinking “where do I start?” If my wife would let me I would just let the whole darn thing grow out and join ZZ Top. Unfortunately she held the trump card and threatened to stop shaving her legs in retaliation. Sorry but this house isn’t France so in a few minutes I am going to suck it up and just pick somewhere and start.

- Can the media please stop reporting on the GM CEO driving to Washington? If he had driven to Washington in his own hybrid car THE FIRST TIME I would be impressed. This is part 2, the aftermath, this is the guy buying the girlfriend flowers after the assault. It is a publicity stunt and the easiest way for those not to work is for you to NOT GIVE IT PUBLICITY.

He is an automobile executive and he is driving a car. Why can I not see that there is a story here.

Speaking of which, the CEO’s of all three companies are now offering to work for $1 a year. Considering they each owe ten’s of billions of dollars if every employee did the same… they would still owe tens of billions of dollars.

- Do you ever wake up and think that there isn’t a single person running things that has any idea of what they are doing and it’s obvious how we all got to this point? Then think YOU’RE the one that must be crazy and go back to sleep?

- When you finally wake up for the day after having that previous thing do you say to yourself, “Our president’s middle name is going to be Hussein” and you wonder just how that happened?

- Today a woman said to me, “You know, you could save money if you made coffee at home instead of buying it every day from McDonald’s.” That instantly makes this woman worse than Hitler.

Seriously I wanted to say to her, “No… I want to thank you for pointing that out to me. I did not realize that the cost of a tiny percentage of a giant tin of coffee and some water would be less expensive than the $1.85 I pay each morning. I am a complete retard. Thank you, thank you so much.”

It was 7:00am and I just couldn’t muster the necessary sarcasm so I let it slide. But really now! Worse than Hitler.