Random Thoughts

North Korean Communist Dictator and overall weird little troll Kim Jong Il has endorsed Barack Obama.

We are now expected to accept that 17 pregnant sixteen-year-olds at the same time in a town of 30,000 is mere coincidence. Even if it is a coincidence and not a pregnancy pact, what are we to believe about the predictable results of a high school with free daycare for student-mommies? Is way more student-mommies such a stretch of the imagination?

We have fires burning not far from here in the Great Dismal Swamp. These are peat fires, and they burn underground, smoldering nasty smoke into the air. It wafts across the whole region, smelling as if one had soaked wood in water before setting it ablaze. And this goes on 24-7. Pleh.

Don Imus is claiming to be misunderstood. My first wife Suzy said that claiming to be misunderstood was a way to shift your own weaknesses to others. The proper perspective, in her mind (and now in mine), is that if you are misunderstood, it is not the listener's fault for misunderstanding, but your own fault for poor communication skills. "Nobody understands me" never flew in Suzy's house, no matter the circumstance.

You have no right to be understood, rather you have an obligation to make yourself understandable.