Award winning reporting

I just read a couple articles in the new york times and was very quickly reminded why I don't watch or read the news.

First I read about how a repeal of the don't ask don't tell policy for gays in the military failed to pass. I suppose that we are legislating equality is a good thing. Isn't that what the constitution was supposed to have laid out 200 years ago? But we had to make another law saying women are also equal, and another saying blacks are also equal. Now we seem to be trying to decide if homosexuals are also equal... all white heterosexual presbryterian men are equal, everyone else I guess we take on a case by case basis.

Then I read about the wikileaks hooha. Turns out the sexual crimes the founder has been arrested for is that he stopped using a condom... I also read that paypal and mastercard stopped processing payments to wikileaks. The former because it doesn't support illegal activities, and the later apparently had no comment. Now, I'm old enough to be able to read between a couple lines, and something really stinks here. What makes my mind melt though is that I really have no way of knowing what is the truth, therefore I can't form an informed opinion, and even if I could, what would I do with it?

The guy I met last night said this is a nation of stupid people. Not as politically correct as saying it is like an ocean liner that takes time to change course, but essentially the same thing. It makes me sick to read and watch obviously slanted reporting because I know there are a lot of people who believe what they see and read.

So now that I have read the news, I think I will stop reading the news. How this guy in sweden fares, and whether the french ambassador really does have the clap, have no bearing whatsoever on the service I will give to my tables tomorrow. Actually Saturday, I have an undesired, but much appreciated day off tomorrow. And as far as whether or not homosexuals deserve the same rights that I take for granted, well that just infuriates me that anyone could think they don't.

What is ambiguous about "all men are created equal"? What is so @!?#'ing hard to understand about the idea that you are no more and no less than any living being in this universe? EQUAL. It is simple.

So until someone tells me they will give me a boat if I read the news, I'm not reading the news. And I will be working on getting my boat, getting ready to have my boat, until that day arrives.

I'm so happy. I am living indoors, with a good job, on miami beach, with no one to say they won't live on a boat with me. All I lack is the boat, but I know it is at this moment speeding toward me like a runaway train. Clear skies, cool breezes, calm seas, and the wind at my back. Sounds pretty good...