Tired of the latest fad
I walked the dogs this morning in the drizzle but that was better than the storm that we had all night which caused the electricity to go out in the middle of the night and made our bedroom feel like we were breathing stale air. I ran across neighbors on their porch because of the electricity, they were reading the newspaper (a vestige of the past) and I asked if the Republicans also took the Senate as the headline of a Times Picayune in a driveway said only GOP TAKES HOUSE. They said we won by a small margin.
Later when the lights came back on, I skimmed the election outcome and saw that the Tea Party was able to make a little noise. Beware of the emperor who has no clothes is all I have to say to those who follow such nonsense – we are not going to have anarchy and we are not going to have libertarians running our government. It just isn’t going to happen. So within the confines of what we do have, let’s make that work.
Frankly, I’m glad Obama now has a few enemies that he can point his long, thin fingers at because I’m sick of everyone pointing the finger at him as if he caused this horrendous global economic meltdown. My neighbors said voters are shortsighted, and I said well so is the rest of the world.
We’re all enamored with the latest gadget, the newest way to consume entertainment, the person or company who seems charmed and able to make zillions of dollars without hardly working up a sweat. It’s all about the zing zang, the now, the latest fad.
But fads don’t last. That is fact. And the tea party will be relegated to the bottom of the news just like Rush Limbaugh was and soon we’ll see that values last and good companies that make products we want succeed, and that a lot of money has never been a metric for success no more than accessorizing yourself with the latest gadget (there is always a better one coming).