Those days in between

Outside little boys are playing with firecrakers in the middle of the afternoon. It will never cease to amaze me that others are so amazed with these little exploding things. Emergency rooms and four-fingered hands seem to have no effect on their popularity. That is not what this post is about.

This post is about the days in between. The days when we survive on eating left-overs of Christmas dinners and do little tasks here and there to get to the next year. Some of us have to work and others, like myself, have to look for work. Many things have happened this holiday season. For one it appears that the health care reform is really beginning in the US after all this time. The bill is of course imperfect, but as of yet no government has put forward a perfect bill, and when it does one day happen it will be criticized as being too perfect.

A man got past all the airport security measures and tried to blow up a plane on its way into Detroit. Of course this has led to the GOP criticising the current administration. They would have criticised the administration without the terrorist as well for not being like the GOP. I made the mistake of reading comments on news sites after the attacks and was impressed with the general level of bigotry and fear available in mass doses. The solution is really quite simple: stop bying oil from shitty little dictatorships and this won´t be so much a problem. Besides its not like its something new that there are crazies in every country trying to kill people. Closing borders is something a crazy dictatorship would do and not a democracy and it wouldn´t stop the McVeighs among us from doing what they want to do.

Enjoy the days in between as soon the in between will be at its end and we will have a whole year in between the next in between.

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