This time change thing kinda sucks.

It was hard getting up for work this morning. Hell, even The Dog looked at me like I was insane. He just lay there staring at me, doing that one eyebrow raised thing that dogs do and then he rolled over and fell back to sleep.

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Enough said, let's go look at a couple of links:

• So basically, these two rocket scientists turned a misdemeanor shoplifting charge into a felony armed robbery charge. Morons.....



• Key phrase in this story: "Five passengers ended up not boarding the aircraft".

I still don't like painting.

We painted that room yesterday, then again today and it still needs one more coat. This is what happens when you try to paint a light color over a dark color.

Fortunately, my wife is on break this week and has some time to put that third coat on.

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I know what I'll be watching this evening:

You gotta love Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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These links may, or may not, entertain you:

• Leave the manatees alone. They aren't bothering anybody.



• Meet the luckiest man alive.



• Only in Florida.

I don't like painting

Now that our offspring are all older than ten, we decided (actually, my wife decided) that is was time to paint and update their bedrooms. That means she does the trim and I do the rolling.

I realize that doing the trim is the hard part and simply rolling paint on the flat walls is the easy part but I still hate doing it.

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You might like these:

• Only in Florida.



• Very cool.

Long Day = Short Post

I didn't get home from work until late. That means I didn't spend any time on the interwebs looking for interesting stuff to write about.

You'll just have to accept these links:

• Flight crews should carry tasers to use on a$$holes like this.



• Brings whole new meaning to the phrase, "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition".



• Attention hipsters: You already look like idiots. Take my advice and try not to take it to the next level.



• Fortunately, Tennessee has the death penalty.

What happened to my country?

Right after World War Two ended, the United States set about spreading the joys of democracy throughout the world. Our government on an evangelical mission, preaching that the people of a country should elect their leaders. We were determined to remove all vestiges of dictators who wielded power with a gun.

We fought in Korea and Vietnam against the scourge of communism.

We battled politically, and with some amount of subterfuge, against all of the petty little warlords down in Central and South America.

We told people to stand up and make their voices heard. We told them to vote for their leaders and we would back them all the way.

It was our stated mission to make the world better place through democracy.

So now what are we doing? We are encouraging people to throw out their democratically elected leaders with force and install dictatorships.

Don't believe me? What the hell do you think happened in Egypt? What the hell do you think is happening in the Ukraine?

The president of the Ukraine was a democratically-elected president but since he likes Putin and doesn't like Obama, we think it's okay that a subset of this people seize power and demand his arrest?

In my opinion, we should be encouraging Russia to return the Ukrainian President to power. We should be telling the people over there, "Hey, you elected him. You might not like him but you elected him and if you want him gone, you need to vote for someone else when the elections come around again."

What the hell happened to my country?

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You might like these:

• Only in Florida.



• This is a pretty damned good idea.