Tuesday morning grump fest

Grump 1

I couldn’t sleep last night so I decided to turn on the TV. Have you ever watched late night TV? Well there were about 60 infomercials a few really bad movies and some rerun regular stuff. Normally it would be some stupid film for me but not being able to sleep was kind of getting on my nerves so I surfed commercials for a while then ended up on Animal Planet. They were doing a show called animal cops or something like that. It was shot like COPS but instead of following two barely educated police officers that chased poor people they were traveling with the ASPCA to various poor people’s houses in various cities. The show follows each pet from the initial contact to the conclusion of its case. Sometimes that was a happy ending other times it wasn’t. It was the sort of thing that confirms my worst fears for mankind and my best hopes. If how we treat our “pets” isn’t indicative of how we soon will care for the rest of society, or sick or elderly, I don’t know what is. I came away from it with two things. First the people who work at the ASPCA are made of much tougher stuff than I am. The second is that some people need to be hurt, not fined, for what they do to animals. Apparently this issue is something I feel strongly about. I really can’t write what was done to some of these creatures. Doing that gives it some sort of permanence in my psyche that I don’t want any part of. I am going to have to think more about how to have some part in effecting change. I was so upset at the end of the show I couldn’t even consider sleep. The BBC fixed that a bit later.

Grump 2

Yes old farm houses can be great. Yes living in the country (although just barely) is nice. It’s just that sometimes I would really like to just be able to turn the knob and have hot water without fear of propane levels or if I did a load of laundry. NO HOT WATER THIS MORNING. Oh sure it was an easy fix and the hot water showed just a little bit late but crap man I smell and didn’t get enough sleep. I just wanted a hot bath and a slow morning. I know the whole home ownership thing is a constant find and fix but aaargh!

Grump 3

The world is at war. Civil rights are rapidly leaving the United States. The White House is breaking the law on a daily basis. What makes the news this morning? Anna Nicole Smith @ the Supreme Court fighting for her widowed husband’s estate. I don’t even know where to begin but it sure does put the hot water grump into context. When is the mother ship coming to take us away?