And I'm Back...

Hey kids.  For those of you that have been keeping track or playing along with the home version of the game, you have no doubt noticed that it’s been over a month now since I posted anything to the blog.  To be quite honest, I didn’t intend for it to have been this long in between posts but to tell the honest truth, it’s probably been better that I’ve kept my mouth shut over the last six weeks anyway.

The simple fact of the matter is that on top of always trying to be honest and upfront with my opinions on this blog, I’ve always intended for this thing to be a fairly open space.  I’ve even patted myself on the back a few times (publically) for inviting other schools of thought to voice their opinions and op-eds to what I had to say.  Well, to be blunt, the political events of the past few months including the government shut down and the Obamacare debate and debacle have really weighed heavily upon my thoughts.

Okay, that’s putting it lightly.  I’ve been so wound up about it I’ve found myself ranting to the bathroom mirror while I had a mouth full of toothpaste.  Yeah, let’s just say the whole situation crawled up my ass a bit.

I was ready to set the keyboard phasers to kill and tear a whole lot of people and their ideologies a new asshole when a friend of mine made a comment to me during a Facebook conversation regarding the whole shutdown issue that really made me think.  He remarked that I’m so conservative that even when I’m trying to be open minded I’m being conservative.  In the space of twenty minutes red alert had been cancelled, the weapons systems had powered down, and if you’ll pardon the extended Trek metaphor Captain Kirk had wandered off in search of green tail to chase.

It occurred to me that while I have a really strong opinion on this subject, I was also possibly going off a bit half-cocked and partially misdirected on the whole issue.  So I did something that has been very uncharacteristic of me to say the very least.

I shut the fuck up for a bit.

(I know, right?)

Look, the Affordable Care Act is gonna be a mess in one form or another for quite a while, whether it’s in its implementation or execution or whatever.  I personally think a lot of people are going to be in for a surprise down the line but hey, I could be wrong.  What I am going to do is get my head right about the whole situation.  I have two choices, deal with it and move on or rant and rave until I have to deal with it and move on.  It seems to me that at this point my lazier nature needs to win out and we’ll just call it dealt with.

So am I back to ranting raving cussin and fussin?  Yep.  Am I suddenly embarking on a nice swing to be all up with people and shit?  Oh puhlease.  But, when it comes to the politics of the last few months that made me so upset that it ran me away from my keyboard I’m just going to somewhat gracefully let it pass me by. 

So let’s get back to the business at hand, shall we?

Welcome back to the Cynical Sarcastic boys and girls!