Sleeping with Wolves

I'm so bored with people of my class like Alexandra Penney! She just wrote a book about losing all her money to Madoff and expressed her fears of becoming a bag lady. Paleeease! She has 3 properties--3!! She knows people in many high places with connections. She'd never get near the curb let alone the street! What a liar! So she slept with Madoff for money, so did a lot of others and lost. Tough luck. She slept with wolves, Mrs. Beale would've said! It's time somebody wrote people like her off and stopped buying their books! What is wrong with Americans these days that they can't tell a shyster from a real person anymore? We need to grow up. America needs another revolution but one where people wake up from their daydreaming and smell the coffee. I'm registering as an independent because you can't tell the good guys from the bad ones anymore, honestly!!!

Inmates are Running the Asylum

Forgive me for saying so, but does it seem our candidates for office lately are prime examples of life's refuse? First of all, you don't get into politics today unless you're born into it like Jackie's kids or you were a celebrity of some sort prior like a sports star or movie actor. It's disgusting how base some of these people running for office are! In Boston we have Brown who was a twink from the past who appeared nude in Cosmo for money as a youngster. Now he's a so-called conservative who wants to tell us what to do and how to live. Personally, I'd rather vote for my cat Francine to run. At least all we could depend on her to show up for Kibble every day. I think all persons running for political offices ought to be spayed before hand. That way, they'd never stray from the job at hand looking for tomcats to play with. Who is next for office, a former con from prison? Why not, we've had everything else. It's just another form of show biz except they get to steal our money and thumb their noses at us. When are we going to wake up from this nightmare world we created? Are we idiots who ate too many Big Macs and Twinkies?

When Sonny Boy Goes Mad

Have you read about the Paul Merhige rampage shooting over the holidays? Isn't it awful? What happens to someone in a family when they just start blindly killing or assassinating their kin? What gives? I don't know, I think it's perhaps that we don't know the story behind the story, you know? I mean, you know what I mean, there might be some alternate reasons why he acted the way he did. I used to ride by all those charming little houses in suburbia and wonder just what kind of horrors were going on behind those pretty picket fences and gardens. Once you get inside and live with them, it's a different story. It's like Grey Gardens. For years, nobody knew what Mother and I were going through. They'd pass by the house and I'm sure thought we were living in the lap of luxury inside. Even Jackie when she visited for the first time in years asked "I don't understand, what happened?" Hello, we ran out of money! Oh, my brothers didn't care. They had their own lives and rarely visited. People tend to look away from anything that challenges their world. So, I think something nasty was done to this guy when he was young or he experienced something horrible growing up in this family and kept all that anger inside so long that when it rose up, it was terrific! We really need to pay attention to each other! People are extremely sensitive!

Sick to Death of Celebrity

Aren't you tired with celebs and their transgressions? I am! I'm sick of hearing about this or that one being picked up for DUI or not paying taxes. Imagine having all that adoration and money and all you can do is get drunk or evade the feds? I'm telling you, the more people get, the more dissatisfied they become. They just keep looking for new highs. Take this Tiger Woods thing--what a mess he created. The problem isn't just that he was unfaithful (All men are--aren't they awful?), but that he duped the public into thinking all this time he was beyond reproach. This man paraded himself as the new John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart and all time he was just using the media and letting people make up their silly hero stories about him. I remember seeing an old movie in which one of the female characters says "You shouldn't say that about him, he's a great man!" The other looks at her like she's nuts and says, "There are no great men, honey, there's only MEN!" Never have truer words been spoken on film! Personally, I think we ought to have real heroes like ourselves or the postman or milkman who does something valiant for us every week and goes unappreciated. We need to grow up and stop idolizing people with clay feet!

I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up!

The news is very troubling these days--almost science fiction! Did you read the story about the Ft. Hood gunman? Tell me, I'm confused, just how does a person of the Muslim faith who by nature and teaching thinks we are all infidels end up in the US military? They detest gay people but put someone like this on the payroll???? He wears the robes of his faith yet, a faith based on hate? I don't know if you know that, I mean, do you know that? Mohammed recruited his followers by threatening them with death if they didn't believe he was the next Jesus. It was totally a religion based on exclusion and oppression and here Americans sit on their haunches while they're building mosques in all our cities now.

Also, did you hear about that poor baby shut in a trunk under the aunt's bed for 12 hours while the mother cried kidnap? Are people going crazy? I'm amazed at these stories. Years ago, the average person wouldn't do such things. Now it seems everyone is acting out.

I think a lot of this stuff has to do with the economy being bad, but also it doesn't help. I dunno. I'd just like a day or two on the beach.

Up Up and Away

It's absolutely amazing to see how far folks these days will go to get fame. I'm speaking of that family who reported to authorities that their son was missing after having taken off in a small balloon. How much attention can one person generate? That seems to be the name of the game--attention! Everyone wants his/her 15 mins. of fame (Remember Andy Warhol, he said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 mins. or secs. or something.) at all cost. I come from an era where one tried to never get his/her name in the paper for anything other than births, marriages, deaths. It's sad to see people do this sort of thing. I think most of the multiple birth people who took fertility drugs are in the same boat. Imagine dropping 6 or 7 babies just to get money and be on tv? Those women will never be the same. Babies ruin your figure and they age you incredibly. After all, they are acting like a parasite feeding off your body until they come out. I mean, I don't know if you know that--do you know that? It's rather disgusting if you think about it.

Miss California Anti-Gay? Palleeze!

Can you imagine anyone competing these days in a beauty contest? Honestly, even back when I was a young girl I thought they were wrong. You might as well sell yourself to white slavers, you know. These girls come from trailer parks all over America with dreams of becoming what, new meat? The chance to get into Playboy magazine and party at Hefner's mansion? I can't believe women could be so stupid. Why did we fight for equality when we're still producing empty-headed bimbos like Miss California? She ought to get a job and save money for college. This country has gone to the dawgs, I'm telling you. We have mass unemployment and children raised by computers and television and Miss California is fretting over gay marriage. Would you believe it? She ought to go to Iraq and live in a medieval environment run by men.