Last night my wife and I watched a video, "Black on Broadway," an hour of a stand-up routine of comedian Lewis Black. Black has an ascerbic wit and a sharp tongue and a way of making people laugh at his 'black humor' about the state of affairs in our lives today. If one is inclined to be offended by the word 'fuck,' one would be deeply offended by the video, but if one doesn't have such sensitivities, it's worth the hour.
My right shoulder and neck have been giving me fits of late. I've had severe aches in both of them, making it tough sometime to turn my head and generally being annoying and making me cranky. The last couple of days, the nerves in my neck have made my neck and lower jaw start tingling, like the skin is 'going to sleep.' I'm relatively sure they are related and that there is some connection between the very, very tight muscles and the tingling. The last time I had something similar, various specialists wanted to do ugly things to me, including trying to "replicate" the pain after it got much better. I thanked them and said no. The idea, I thought, was to make the pain go away...not to make it come back. I think I need a good massage...that will probably be the cure.
It's back to the office later today, and to the polls for me. Today is my voting day, my day to try to return control of state and federal offices to people who I find far less offensive than the criminals in office today. I'll go Democratic except for two races: for Texas Governor, I'll go for Kinky Friedman, an independent. My vote for him is to acknowledge that he has some good ideas (among some very bad ones) and to avoid voting for more of the same. For Texas Comptroller, I'll go for Susan Combs, a Republican. Despite her ugly party affiliation, I think she's extremely sharp and has very good business sense. She's been Commissioner of Agriculture for the past few years. Her opponent, a Democrat named Fred Head, has publicly attacked her as a pornographer because she wrote a romance novel a number of years ago. Any idiot who takes such a position will not get my vote. Head is an imbecile who should not have been permitted to run for office under the imprimatur of the Democratic Party; another piece of evidence that the Democrats do not have it together. I mean, my god, if you're trying to resurrect the Democratic Party in Texas, why in the world would you put a ranting lunatic in a high-profile race? People who claim to want to protect the morals of young people, as Head does, frighten me, anyway; they're often the types that our Republican friends are having to deal with in the Foley situation in DC.
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