Calloused Lips

President Obama has worked just hard enough, and long enough, to get calloused lips. Yet. he has now won the Nobel Peace Prize. Shows you how much of an Icon this man has become, or how low our standars have become. Shows me, yet again, how insanely sick we are.

We are dancing on the edge of a bottomless precipice, with the ledge crumbling all about us, and what do we do? What do we talk about? Anything to ignore the problems. Anything to make ourselves feel better.

We are engaged in two wars, which we are losing. We are in the middle of a legitimate economic meltdown. A flu pandemic is looming on the horizon. There is global warming, changing the environment at an alarming rate, the worldwide food suply hanging in the balance, with honey bees fighting for their very lives. Yet, we can take the time to make frivoulous laws, and anything else that makes us feel like we are doing something important.

I am reminded of a case recently where a man was being prosecuted for having imagery of pit bulls fighting as a part of his documentary. The law under which he is prosecuted stems from a legislator who was appalled that there was no law to prevent a certain "smut" found on the internet.

It seems that certain people take sexual pleasure in a well dressed woman's leg, stomping on bugs and pinkies. When all is said and done, this sort of paraphellia is harmless. I don't think there is a shortage of crickets and newborn rats. We buy them to feed to our snakes and spiders. No one should care, except for a few sexual repressives, like this legislator. Thus a broader law for animal cruelty. Whereby we are spending time and resources prosecuting a man who has done nothing wrong. The footage he had came from China, where the sport is legal, and the dogs better cared for.

Opinions from the high court have already intimated that the man was within his first ammendments rights. That doesn't matter, right? As long as we pretend we are doing something important, and continue to wink at the real problems, it's all good.

If we're that stupid, maybe we deserve the slow horrible death steamrolling towards us.