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So the news on Daily Beast, Gawker (which is no more news than the Comdey Channel's Daily Show), CNN, and the other dozen I cull from is a lttle of this and that. Our culture is seemingly entranced by what celebrities, especially actor/singer types, have to say about politics. It drives me crazy. I first noticed it during Clinton's 1991 run and it has grown to a ridiculous level. Who out there believes that these people are any more educated than ourselves? If college education matters at any level, most of them did not a complete a degree, or have any type of specialized learning in the area of social sciences, Government, History or Literature. What does one learn after making your first million on a motion picture besides where to get a security guard, poolboy and local hookers in LA??
The news is always fun to read until someone commits suicide like the latest "victim" of our economy. I love that term being thrown around- like the ECONOMY is a big bad monster that makes us unwilling and mute citizens do things we cannot control. I feel horrible when these men with such high pressure jobs feel so bad that they have to remove themselves from their world- do they think their children really care about how much money they may have lost, or do you think their children would rather just have their father around a little longer...it is very very sad. Men have a high suicide rate compared to women because of their need to prove themselves, competitively, and the pressure to win at all costs seems to sometimes beat out any common sense such as realizing that sometimes- you have to just suck it up and admit you messed up real bad, and then start your life over whether you're happy about it in that moment or not. It's so easy to generalize all this, and there are usually underlying issues with people who commit suicide, but it just gets to me when someone's house of cards falls, they don't just pick them back up and move on.
This a beautiful morning anyway. There were alot of things going on this morning to write about but I'm out time for now.
Count your blessings, and your pennies 0)