The musings of a madman...

      The cooler it gets outside, the fewer times a week I have to leave my house.  These things are proportional...  I will be back outdoors sometime around March.  At this point, I am up to "put on pants"-level going outside about three times a week...  Four if I am doing the Band Booster Dad thing.  Being stuck-but-not-stuck in the house reveals to me the fact that I am back on actually answering unknown numbers again, as we have discussed at length once in the past. [ Phlip note : Wife Person™ saw me actually do that shit week before last! ]     I guess I can refrain from making this lead-in any longer than it needs to be and g'head and just say it . My phone rang... Me: "Hello?" Caller: "I heard you battled Smoak ." Me: "Ex--...  excuse me?  Whodis?" Caller: "Jericcho--..." Me:  " JIGGABOO JACKSON!!! " Jericho:  "I'm trying to put that behind me, man." Me:  "Everything on the internet is forever ho...

      "Not that this was necessarily what you asked, but yes in fact I have been thinking about this... What if we have been doing this politics and leadership thing all wrong all along? How, you ask? Well what if there is such a marked haste to make every single-ass decision with minds unfortunately clouded by a complete refusal to hear and/or consider opposing views due to not approaching these discussions with anything even resembling clear-enough mind? What if maybe, just maybe, there was an idiot-proof and evidence-shown means to approach each and every single decision with the clearest mind possible and the movers and shakers who make all the decisions have just been ignoring it?     Think about it... This lil shutdown kerfuffle? Over before it starts! Wars, conflicts or even RUMORS of such? No such thing! Budgeting and taxation questions? Damn near self-correcting! People fighting in the Wal Mart parking lot over a spot in line on Black Friday?...