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There comes a time, now and again, when everything seems old. I read the news and it's the same news as yesterday, and last week, and last month, last year, the last few years. The Chinese have a phrase "May you live in uneventful times". Well it's less that the times are uneventful, there's certainly enough killing and mayhem for anyone, instead it's more that it's the same killing and mayhem as previously described.

You know I'm tired of senseless murders, kidnappings, rapes and injustices visited on us by our neighbors, co-workers, family members, church leaders. It's been done. Yes it sucks, but it sucks the same this time as it did last time, only to different people.

I'm nauseated every time our president-brat kicks his heels and whines about how his was is the only way to "keep America safe" and that if things aren't handed to him on a silver platter well then he's just gonna take his ball an' go home (see his rose garden speech on the topic of prisoners of war, in effect he says if congress doesn't work his way then he's not gonna interrogate the prisoners at all, oh noes). Old ok? Just old.

There's people winning lotteries then blowing it all or winding up getting mugged in the parking lot of some sleazy strip club for a suitcase of money they shouldn't have been carrying in the first place.

Of course the bi-monthly prisoner escape story. Lock your doors if you live in the area, keep your car windows rolled up. Report any suspicious shadows in the leaves under your junipers.

Hostages. Yeah, people going places they shouldn't for philosophical reasons that don't convince the person on the other end of the gun. Families sniffling about the contribution their person made to the world, righting wrongs, fighting the good fight.

Kids getting fatter. Adults getting fatter. Fatter people dying as kids. Salt is bad for ya, don't cha' know?

Coffee is good, butter is bad. Butter is good, margarine is bad. Fat is bad unless it's carbs. Carbs are good unless you have too many then it kills your liver.

Religions running amok. Muslims against Jews, Jews against Christians, Christians against Muslims. Everyone against Jehovas because that's how it should be because those people are so fucked up and proud of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it, you've heard it, we've all heard it so many times that it's just become a litany... a checklist of topics... an endless regurgitation of the same...old...crap.

So what is there to write about anyway?
Well, the same old crap, obviously.