Wuh Wuh Wuh

Yes, the switch to all-digital transmissions should be easy and painless for everyone.

Klingons and Wookies

This is the funniest thing I've seen in the past couple of weeks. Jim, the guy in the blue shirt, is trying to bait Dwight, the guy in the foreground, into wasting time at work. Dwight is a stickler for canon in sci-fi/fantasy fiction. Hilarity ensues.

Yes, Again

Nick went off of his antibiotics for the second time on Friday morning. By Friday night, he was showing behavior and symptoms of another cold. Between Amy and myself, we were up nearly all night with him. We took him to the doctor on Saturday morning and she checked his heart, lungs, and ears. Everything looked good. We slept Saturday away right along with Nick. We had our first social appointment for a lunch that we were both looking forward to but disappointed that we had to cancel. Saturday night was a little better and Sunday was decent. He seems to be doing even better this morning. Still, Amy and I are tired and getting more than a little lonely. It seems every time we try to get together to make friends, we have to cancel.

Just Sad

I am rather fiercely apolitical. While I believe that most of the people who run our country do have our best interests at heart despite which side of our myopic, two-party coin they tend to agree, the system itself is so dirtied by corporate interests and money that legal actions that might truly initiate necessary radical changes rarely tend to occur.

That being said, I am disgustingly entertained by the recent abhorrent behavior of rally attendees for the Republican presidential nominee. As the Democratic nominee begins to show some strength and our wasp brethren have their toes held to the fire, their true nature is showing. The ignorant comments are telling. Calling out that the Democratic nominee is an Arab or a Muslim, a complete falsehood, is shameful enough in that it continues plant the idea in the heads of the ignorant and stupid. But the real shame should be in the reason why the comment is being uttered in the first place. What if Obama was of Arab decent? What if he were Muslim?

Many conservatives choose their party based on closely held religious beliefs and if these are the people catcalling for things like Obama's death, their hypocrisy astounds. Christianity as it is practiced in America has come to mean fear and isolationism, the active rejection of people or ideas with which its practitioners tend to disagree. While that rejection is not necessarily against the tenets of the faith, the complete lack of respect, tolerance, and dare I say love for any people who might disagree with them is a telling litmus of exactly what impression the religion gives non- and ex-practitioners: selfish, fearful, and ignorant.

I know plenty of faithful Christians and am completely aware that these behaviors do not reflect the actions and beliefs of all of them. However, the palpable fear and ignorance of the others now on public display, their comments putting the ugly face of racism on parade and hate once again acting as the language of the day, is certainly no great advertisement for the conservative party or its Christian adherents. If this is what being faithful means, I respectfully decline.