Mamarati

I somehow think that if my keyboard clicks louder I will want to write more.

For this reason, I am seriously contemplating stealing your keyboard, boyfriend. You are so attached to the MacBook Pro these days anyway…

But then I got you that keyboard as a gift, so it would be completely wrong of me to steal it from you, wouldn’t it?

But I would just be borrowing it. Indefinitely.

OK, I will leave it there. But I really want the clicking. I am using the best keyboard ever made, after all… It even has the sweet rainbow apple on it.

Still, yours clicks louder!!!

Must.Have.Clicks.

Other stuff… I was driving to pick Jacob up from school on Monday and I saw one of the high school boys on his walk home through the neighborhood and he was reading a book.

While walking. Paying little attention to the world around him. I tried to get a look at what the book was as I passed, but I couldn’t tell.

I like that I got to see this. It renews my faith in books. Not that my faith was ever waning, but you know… I worry about the future of books.

We just got back from vacation. It was relaxing, yet I was kind of anxious to get home. And I don’t know why this is. I mean, really, I was just torn between the impossibility of staying on vacation forever and the reality of having to go home.

I love home. But I love vacation. I don’t have the money or freedom to stay on vacation for very long, especially not in the disconnected-from-the-world fashion we were traveling in.

The news is pissing me off. Not really the news, but what’s on the news. Tony Snow. What a crock. He acts like the American people don’t want a transcript. I’m an American person and I want a transcript. I want oaths. I want to know what the deal is, and I want more than just a one-liner from Congress declaring what they have concluded the truth is.

So much of it is crap. I want journalists and bloggers and real people to pick apart the transcript and debate it and get it all out in the open.

I think I’m liking MSNBC better than CNN these days. And way better than FauxNews. It’s a little more balanced. I mean, there’s left stuff and there’s right stuff and then there’s just stuff. It’s better than the all-right Faux and the all-left CNN.

This is what’s pissing me off about this whole thing with the current investigation. Why is everything about left and right these days? This is the first time in my life that I remember it being so much so. I mean, there were times in my life when I could identify with any party. There were times in my life where I could say I was Republican leaning… and you know what? I am not the one who has changed. The parties have changed. So, when Tony Snow or Bush get up there and want to act like this is all some Democratic ploy, it pisses me off. They’re talking about how the American people don’t care about this and just want the truth and that it’s a big circus set up by the Democrats… it just pisses me off.

Because I do want to know.

I mean, this is a bigger deal than the Lewinski crap, and they sure as hell dragged Clinton himself and everyone else and their dog in front of them.

And who is them? Congress. Not Republicans or Democrats. Farkin’ Congress.

See, back then I didn’t see it as a Republican/Democrat thing. I saw it as something that went wrong and had to be looked at and I saw that Congress was doing it. I didn’t pay attention too much to the people on the fringe of it… I was looking at the people who could just see that this was something that needed to be investigated.

Just like this needs to be investigated.

Now, granted, the Lewinski thing did turn into quite a show… but that has to do with people, I feel. Like, people. People who read People.

And the thing that pisses me off about that situation becoming such a circus is not the people aspect of it, because I was just as guilty as anyone, laughing about it and wanting to know what was up.

What pisses me off about it is that stuff has been going on that is way more serious, stuff has happened since then that has been way more important that hasn’t been covered by the media or Congress with near the fervor that the Lewinski thing was.

That is what pisses me off. Sure, I want to hear all about that sordid kind of stuff, but I want to hear about the real issues, too. We’re not all stuffy, boring people sitting at home watching C-SPAN. And that’s not required to be a person who cares about politics. And just because some of us like to hear about the gossipy side of politics, that doesn’t make us idiots either.

I don’t know. I’m just so tired of DC being in its own little world and acting like they can do whatever the hell they want and it doesn’t have any affect out here in the real world.