Is this politics, or “reality” TV?

First some Republican douche yells “Liar!” in the middle of a presidential speech to congress. Now a Democratic representative goes over-the-top on Cheney:

“I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking,” the Florida Democrat said on MSNBC’s Hardball Friday night. “But my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?”

It’s funny, but come on… You’ve been elected to do a job, not make jokes and grab the media spotlight. There’s more than enough ways to attack Cheney on merit, without resorting to childish name-calling. But, then again, maybe that’s what the voting public really responds to….

Making a comeback

Haven’t been doing much of a lot of things lately. Yesterday I played hold’em again for the fist time in over a month. Won 50-some cents I’m rich. Or, at least, I’m finally over the $5 mark, which means I’ll start playing the nickel tables. So my future wins (and losses) will be bigger.

This morning I went for a serious bike ride (as opposed to casual), also for the first time in over a month. Came home sore, but with a good time. The significant thing is that all my other morning rides came when the dogs woke me up early, which they don’t do anymore. This ride was after my normal wake-up, in lieu of Farmville. I’m hoping Winter holds off a while longer so I can keep the morning rides up.

And this is also my first real blog post in some time, too. I got some flack for just posting quotes…

Who knew the Fonz was so wise?

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
~Henry Winkler

The hard part is…

It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
 ~Author Unknown

Harder yet is to find someone who will keep catching you…

Mutual weirdness

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
~Author Unknown

…and I’ll comment on that with another quote:

Let me lay it on the line
I got a little freakiness inside
And you know that the man
Has got to deal with it
~Adina Howard, “Freak Like Me” by Sugababes

We see what we want to see…

“True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.”
~William Butler Yeats

And so the answer to “What does she see in him?” is clearly “something you will probably never see”.

Who needs sleep?

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
~Dr. Seuss

Sadly (or thankfully?) this is only true of new love. After a while, sleep becomes important again. Especially when the bills pile up and the job starts early. Romance is great, but not very practical. :-p

No reason required

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
~Robert Brault