Be careful who you vote for?
I guess you would call my mood thoughtful today. Generally, when I work the early day shift, which requires the 4am wake-up, thoughts, ideas and dreams rattle around the grey matter. Bear with me while I use this forum to dump out the thoughts and free up my human RAM for the day: The first this that struck me this morning was an e-mail my folks forwarded to me. I'm not much on forwarding e-mails and this one certainly will find it's way to the trash folder. It was a politically motivated retelling of the old ant and grasshopper story - the ant saving for winter while the grasshopper laughs. Once winter hits, the ant is left laughing last. In an effort to twist people's beliefs about one particular political party, this retelling had the grasshopper in court, suing the ant with several Presidential hopefuls, politicians and social activists chiming in to help the grasshopper get a leg up. The reader is led to believe that the grasshopper is a no-good drain on society and is...