Nothing was said about April snows, was it?
Earth Day coming up on the 22nd is about it for celebrations this month but maybe someone can rustle up a snow sculpture contest. Heaven only knows that after having the warmest March ever recorded (since dinosaur days when nothing was being recorded anyway) and one of the latest cold snaps anyone remembers, you’d think that we’d get serious about being a little more respectful about the whole Earth Day idea. Remember that old, old, old commercial once-upon-a-time about “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”? Well, Mother Earth deserves some respect too. And she can get pretty testy as well–we’re talkin’ floods, droughts, cold snaps, hailstorms, hurricanes, sea level rise, insect infestations (cicadas are nothing, how about ticks?). It’s all related, and the sooner we get our heads on straight and learn to use our brains for more important things than bigger TV screens and more exotic menu items and the latest idiotic online conspiracy theories the better off we’ll be.
Thus endeth Rant # 1
I knew it was a mistake getting a TV. I wind up sitting there trying to understand what some of the commercials are actually about…or…getting that part and wondering anybody gives two hoots in a hot place about this product or service. I worry about the doofuses who watch the car commercials and think that they can drive like that. I am amazed at the kinds of medical conditions that are described in alarming detail. I mean, keep your doctor posted but are we discussing intestinal situations with the whole neighborhood? Are we supposed to get our medical information online or in commercials? Creepy.
Watching many sports situations on the television leaves me mostly cold, if I do not have a particular player/school to cheer for but lots of evenings or Sunday afternoons there’s nothing on but some golf finals (YAWN) or basketball games in some far-off venue featuring players unbeknownst to me.”OH–IO” is one thing, “Oh,oh, a double bogey on thirteen” (YAWN, yawn) is quite another.
Then there are the dramas. Entirely too much blood & guts on too many of them. I do not want to see that stuff before I go to bed, or at any other time, for that matter, but they are written–like so many other things (we’re looking at you cell phones) to just kind of suck you in so that you just have to how the situation winds up–whodunnit, so to speak. AFV, which used to be America’s Funniest Home Videos, but is now just AFV (What happened to HOME?) is often pretty funny but I really can’t stop worrying about all of those people falling down, falling off, falling into, falling forward, falling back–aren’t they hurt? Do those children always do that stuff? Who edits out the sound? Are those dogs and cats…and goats and cattle and birds and pigs…really living with these people? Who is tolerating who? Are we all getting too oblivious to other creatures hurting?
Rant # 2 to be continued when I’m in a better mood–better weather required
