The musings of a madman...

      "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?...

  Wife Person™ has a best friend...      Well she has about four, but one in particular sits at the absolute top of the pot and that is the one she doesn't get to see as much as they might like due to physical distance. They only get to see each other in person about once or twice a year and it always involves an airline ride. They get to see each other this weekend, but I never keyed y'all in on what happened when Wife Person™ went to TN/AR to visit her back in the spring.      It was March, they'd planned the visit for months in advance. It was planned for a week/end that I would be otherwise untethered to anything other than my lawn mower... Me: "But who gon feed me and remind me to take care of the dogs?" Wife Person™: "You do most of the cooking, cleaning and dog-rearing already. The fuck!?" Me: "And no adult supervision?" Wife Person™: "You talked to your therapist on Tuesday, right?" Me: "Of course!" Wife Person™...