I booked Pam's vacation flight this morning. I'll drive from here to Seattle, she'll stay here to work a couple of extra days and then fly to SeaTac where I'll pick her up. Then we'll drive north 20 miles to spend a couple days with my folks before going down to Oregon for the tent camping portion of our vacation. I know it takes about 45 minutes to get from our house to the Phoenix airport, a distance of about 40 miles. From here to SeaTac is 1500 miles. So how much time should I allow to get there for her 9:06 a.m. arrival on July 8?
I thought dogs were supposed to eat their own vomit. If he's not going to do that shouldn't he at least alert me that he has puked all over the rug in the living room?
Back in May the thing on Facebook was to us a pic of your mom as your profile shot for Mother's Day weekend. I put up a photo of Queen Elizabeth. People didn't get it; based on their comments they thought I was saying something about me. I think those who know my mother understood. She's dignified, gracious, poised and in control regardless of what's going on around her. They look a little alike, too.
Now we're encouraged to use a picture of our fathers but I can't think of anyone alive now or in the past who comes close as an appropriate stand-in. Einstein was smart, Coach Wooden was a humble leader, Calvin was a theologian....
In last week's TIME Joel Stein wrote a column about now-former Rep. Weiner's pictures of his privates. I enjoyed the column, and if you want to read it you'll find it by going to Time.com and doing a search for Joel Stein. Just understand you're going to read the P word a lot.
Stein has a style of writing that effectively uses humor to raise interesting and sometimes significant questions. This column asks why an otherwise intelligent male sends pictures of his privates to women, especially women he doesn't know. Stein took a very informal survey, asking a number of women how they'd respond to getting a photo of a guy's _____. Every one of them found the prospect creepy, disgusting or worse, even if that male was a celebrity. (see: Brett Favre.)
As I read Stein's column, trying to put myself in the women's position I completely understood. It seemed like a perfectly predictable response.
So what was he thinking? Is this a case of total self-delusion? "I'm so hot they'll be completely overwhelmed by this pic." In that case it's the ultimate in hubris.
Or is it the kind of sicko thing we think of when we hear about a dirty old man exposing himself in the playground? That scenario involves some serious emotional illness.
In either case we're talking about someone living in their own world, out of touch with reality. Hubris comes naturally to males (yeah, it's who we are) but you gotta be so narcissistic that you're clueless about women to do that. Or, in the case of the playground type, legitimately ill.
I accept that someone like that could get elected to Congress. Hey, look at the list of sickos and scoundrels who have walked those halls. But how do some of his constituents maintain he should stay there, having only done something "foolish." The issue is not primarily that he lied about it. And I'm sorry, Rep. Pelosi, but he's been, he is much more than a distraction. There's something seriously wrong with the guy.
I'm not sure which is worse - that he took and sent those pictures or that so many people don't get it, that taking pictures of your ____ and sending them to women is a problem because of the peripheral issues, not the underlying causes, causes which certainly make someone unfit for Congress.
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