Well, it's Monday. Again. Small kitchen disaster on Sunday morning - dishwasher decided to puke up large quantities of warm water on our kitchen floor. Lady Di freaked out, Fred the Wonder Terrier freaked out, I freaked out...just a general freakout, man! Well, at least it's been taken care of - just some hose replacement and it's A-OK now.
On the Olympics: is anyone else as fascinated by curling as I am? I've never even seen it played before but it's mesmerizing. The t-line, up or down, the guard stone, the brooms, the zen composure of the thrower...who thought up this sport? Freakin' genius, I tell ya...
The other thing has been the SPECTACULAR spills that the women skiers were taking on the downhill. Good God, those poor skiers were tumbling down the slopes like sock puppets...and then would get up and keep going! Amazing.
Last Olympics note: after seeing the ice skating events, I now realize that "Blades of Glory" is NOT a comedy. It's a searing expose of the seamier side of ice skating told in a chilly, almost documentary-like realism. And it has Will Ferrell!
Last thing I've had on my mind. Let's get serious. I've been reading and hearing a lot about this Joe Stack person in Austin who flew his private plan into an IRS building there. The most disturbing thing has been this trend I'm seeing to somehow crown this guy as a populist hero.
WHAT A CROCK!
This guy was many things, but a hero is not one of them. His manifesto reads like a rant from the typical selfish, egocentric, immature idiot who blames all of his problems on everyone else instead of looking in the mirror. Folks, this guy CHEATED on his taxes! He even went so far as to register his home as a church in California, just to get out of paying taxes. He even owned a private plane, for chrissakes! And he had the gall to cry about the evil, evil IRS hounding him, oh, boohoohoo.
Joe Stack was a coward. Instead of being a man, facing his problems and working thru them he took the easy out. He killed himself in a very public, very spectacular manner in one last pathetic bid for attention. He had no life insurance, and no homeowner's insurance policy will pay out if you burn your own house down. His wife and his stepchildren are now truly destitute, thanks to Joe Stack. The family of Vernon Hunter, IRS employee and Vietnam veteran, will live forever with the sadness of his unprovoked, meaningless murder at the hands of Stack. But Stack? He doesn't have to deal with any of these things, does he? He took the easy, cowardly way out.
Folks, if you don't want trouble with the law all you have to do is NOT break the law! We've been audited, we've had problems with the IRS, a lot of people have...but you don't see me or anyone else flying our planes or driving our cars into IRS buildings, do you? Joe Stack, Domestic Terrorist/Tax Cheat/American Idiot...may his soul NEVER rest in peace.
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