I busted out the Monster Dust (baby powder). Didn’t work. I slept on his floor. Worked but my back hurts so damn bad that I look like an pretzel. The boy is still having nightmares or at least, saying he has nightmares. I am beginning to think that he’s just saying that to get me into his room at night, knowing I am a weenie when it comes to that. Great, a toddler can pick me apart. Enough about that. I am tired of it, pardon the pun.
File this under crazy, but apparently it’s not just bloggers and thugs running crazy in the mean streets of Peoria but also family pets. Is it just me or has the entire world gone crazy. People are maltreating kids, Bloomington has more murders than Peoria and now Fido has turned into Cujo. And no, I am not joking about it when two boys got hurt. Rather, I am just amazed that stuff that I read or hear in the news everyday. Consider this:
Dogs mauled two 4-year-old children in separate attacks over the weekend, leaving one boy with part of his ear bitten off, and the other requiring surgery and more than 150 stitches to close bite and scratch marks.
Wow. I guess I am sheltered but I didn’t think that would happen with a family pet. Maybe a stray dog but the family pet. And the dogs involved weren’t pit bulls, the story states. Wow. As if kids don’t have enough to deal with.
But I want to wade into stuff that I know nothing about – politics. I saw this story on the PJS web site which I thought was rather interesting. Blago the Great wants to get rid of the Electoral College. Personally, I think this is a rotten idea. Okay, I know that in 2000 we had a mess and that it’s elitist and what not but come on, do you really think that Wyoming would ever have a candidate come through there if it wasn’t for the college. Sure, they get virtually no attention now but imagine if didn’t have it at all. I would guess that candidates would probably visit California, Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois, and not in the rural areas — just in the big cities. Hell, get Houston, Chicago, New York and LA and you are Golden in that scenario. So other states that are considering this, don’t do it. THe Founding Fathers sort of stumbled across something for the wrong reasons — they didn’t trust the masses — only to see it work pretty well some 200 years later. There, I am a political blogger now. Rock steady!
