Well, it's not going to kill you

No not dead

Just dealing with a change it meds that is making life hell.  Apparently it will remain this way until Dr. Drug hits the right dose.  So not dead just passing temporarily through hell.

But now I feel really safe.  The Supremes do it again.  Now every gun nut in the country will feel free to purchase an AK-47 to go deer hunting or round up wild horses and shoot them or use a helicopter to chance down a wolf to kill it for sport.  That one's for you Sarah.

Now you see why I haven't been posting much - to much anger and snark.  Been leaving that for my facebook page.

Spiritually outraged or outraged spiritually?

My apologies internets it's time for another rant.

I was raised Catholic and all the way through college I attended mass.  In Davis (UCD)  we had a Newman Center  it was the center of most Catholic students lives at Davis, I say most because we were always a bit avant garde and the more traditional of those among the student body choose St. James the actual Catholic parish in Davis.

 I sang in the Sunday 11 o'clock choir and in the Cathedral Choir in Sacramento.  It could get a bit schizophrenic at times. Wait where am I, can I address the priest or assistant bishop by their first names as I usually did in Davis or I am in a place where I have to say Father so and so, or Bishop so and so?

I've never found a place that met the same standards of loving family not hung up on "formal rules" as I did at Davis thus I no longer attend mass, or rather so rarely that it makes people in town who know me do a double take to see me in church - I occasionally go with Mom when she's here.  You've never seen so many heads swivel so fast as the first time I showed up.

But I digress.  As I've worked with Dr. Sanity I've come to realize that my Catholicism is deeply ingrained.  I've had offers from Amy to attend her church (Methodist) with her, I just can't do it.  Part of that is the "old" Catholic teaching that going into any other church but a Catholic you were assured GOD would strike you dead with a lightening bolt on the very spot.  While I no longer believe that, I think, I still cannot bring myself to commit to another religion.

to be continued...

Note to self - stop reading the comments on news stories

First it was the number of nutcases commenting on this story on cnn.com  A brief rundown of the story a young girl hung herself after months of intensive bullying by a group of 10 students.  The bullying included repeated rapes.  The general consensus of the nutcases is bullying is just a part of growing up and she was just a weak girl.  Um, seems to me that rape goes far beyond the definition of bullying.

Next we'll travel to Alternet.com which has some interesting stories, several of which never fail to leave me sitting here with my mouth hanging open.  The one I just finished was about the State of Utah or Glennbeckistan as the author refers to it.  They voted to make miscarriage illegal, yes you read that correctly.  They can now try a woman for having a miscarriage and the charge carries jail time.  I heartily encourage the State of Utah to secede from the Union and take Texas along with it.

On Dr. Sanity's very strong recommendation (i.e. don't read that crap it will just make you upset) I've been off news for quite awhile.  We used to turn on Cnn as soon as we got up and it stayed on all day.  No  more.  Now and again we visit Cnn but general devote our 2 hours of news to Countdown with Keith Oberman and The Rachel Maddow show.  I want the information behind the stuff that is general spewing from the rest of the news channels.  You know minor things like actual substantiated facts but then I'm just funny that way.

I'm getting increasingly concerned with the nutcases that are coming out of the woodwork and being inflamed by people like Sarah Palin who doesn't have the brains God gave a rock.  Threats from them, including ones to families of members of Congress, hate and death threats against Obama.  The one good thing is we now know who to blame for the election and reelection of George Bush.  The bad thing is it shows a face to the rest of the world that Americans are indeed stupid, illiterate, uninformed and terrified of change - good or bad.