World View Wednesday

Today was a good day for staying home. We cleaned up a bit, and homey-ed things up in the living room by moving some shelves around and adding a few pictures. What the heck, we've lived here a year, might as well start prettying it up a bit.

Tonight was a good night for staying home. We cooked our own burgers while we watched the Jazz lose, then Dad read to Olivia and tucked her in bed early for a change.

Now all this cozy domesticity has got me thinking about some of the not so nice things that are going on beyond my front door. Events that, if carried out, I believe could put my cozy lifestyle and more important, my kid's futures at stake.

So please excuse my ill-informed opinions, but this is what I would say tonight to the rabble rousers out there, if any of them cared what I thought:

Dear World,

Hey, keep it down out there wouldja? I got kids in here that are trying to sleep, and all you kooks out there are making everybody nervous. Especially you Middle East types. Watch it with those guns and threats please. Hey, I know you got problems over there, and sure, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And even America revolted, right? And that revolution was bloody, and loud, and took years and years to resolve. And it was the right thing to do. But you guys seem so impulsive. And reactive. Just think things through, is all I'm saying. Do you even have a plan for what comes next if you overthrow your governments? It's ironic how everything going on in your countries could have such a huge effect over here, and in the rest of the world. It's a pretty intense monopoly game we have set up for us here, isn't it? Almost like somebody is trying to teach us all to get along and play nice.

And speaking of playing nice, come on Wisconsin! What are you thinking? Play by the rules. That's what Americans do. Have the common courtesy to show up and fight for what you want, lawmakers. And teacher, if you walk off the job, have the decency to admit what you did and why, rather than try to cover it up with a fake doctors note and a scam sick day. I believe that kind of behavior is called fraud, and it's shameful. If my kids acted like the grownups in Wisconsin have been acting lately, they'd be grounded for a month. If it was up to me, I'd fire you all.

P.S. I heard from Alisa. She is alive, but in desperate need of Oreos.