Hello Friends! It's been a while.
I've kind of become detached. Not only with blogging, but other things. I'm not enjoying pleasure like I used to. Surely it's just a phase, and I'll bounce back. Don't call me Shirley! :)
Hugh Are You?
Sometimes I do quick blogs to myself, then it never makes it here. One such time happened a few weeks ago. Older Bro noticed that the Biography Channel was doing a feature on Hugh Laurie! He recorded it special for me. And this documinitary was so sad. It started with how only Hugh Laurie could be House (true), then went from his youth to when he got the big audition. It covered the rowing, Footlights, his depression, Stephen Frye, other personal stuff, yadayada. The thing was, they had no interviews with people in his life, only people who think they know something about his life. It was filled with slow motion pans of the same pictures, over and over again, like a Ken Burns nightmare. I was very disappointed. It's the Biography Channel, dammit! They should set the standard, rather than strive for adequacy.
There's A Stranger In My House
I had to work late Monday night. As a consequence, I missed the first 12 minutes of the 100th House Episode! When I jumped in, Taub was jousting with House about... how Taub thought House already knew the answer to the medical mystery. And House said something about finding out why the patient's liver was failing. Or something like that. So I'm trying to play catch up, and there's some storyline about Cuddy playing pranks on House, kind of mean pranks, like hurting his leg, or something.
And I'm thinking, why's Cuddy abusing House like this?!! He was burping her baby last episode. That must have been a heckuva 12 minutes I missed! Then I smiled as I reminded myself, it doesn't matter. Logic and reason are now castaways in the House writing process! Perhaps they established good reason, so I'll not be critical. The episode's gotten good reviews. I try not to judge things I haven't seen. As much as I hate to quote B.B. King, "The Thrill Is Gone."
There Are Exceptions...
I sometimes do judge things I haven't seen. C'mon, we all do it! For instance, here in the United States, there's this big debate on a "stimulus bill" to save the economy from impending doom. I have no idea whether any such efforts will have any affect. Speaking in sweeping terms, I see it as the remnants of Socialism meets the resurgence of Corporate Fascism, in a new dress. But I really don't think we have an appropriate historical model for comparison.
Glad you made it through that rant! Or skipped it. :) Here's what got my imagination spinning on a bigger, faster top. These distinguished representatives in the August body known as the United States Senate, they were debating the "stimulus package." The spending bill is said to be in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. Just how much is a trillion dollars? One senator took to the floor to say, among other things:
"Just to put a trillion dollars in context, if you started spending the day that Jesus was born and you spend a million dollars every single day, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion dollars. This is a lot of money."
That kind of boggles my mind. I can accept the numbers game. But obviously, "you" could not have lived that long. Only Jesus could do that. So maybe the Senator misspoke. But if Jesus had not died on the Cross, for the sins of those who acknowledge him as their Savior, what might have happened?
What if this Senator had the time machine, and he could have given Jesus a trillion dollars, and our Lord Savior didn't die on the cross? What if He was giving out a million dollars a day, at His discretion, how might it have changed history? Every day, from the Manger to today. Of course, it would have to be adjusted for inflation. :) I figure history would have been changed dramatically, but we'd still be in debt to somebody!
And I'm a Christian. Don't try to talk me down! :) But I'm sick of seeing elected representatives invoking the name of Jesus, Christianity, or any religion in the public discourse of government and governing.
Whew! I'm done.
:)
TG
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