This is not about Natasha Richardson or her recent death from a skiing accident. It is how I feel in general.

Every single day someone famous or well known dies. There are hundreds of traditional news stories and thousands of internet articles.  I hear people say “oh that is so sad” or “I feel terrible” or “I am really upset”.  To me these are incredibly “fake” comments in response to public media situations. If anyone actually felt bad single every time someone died they would be miserable 24 hours a day forever. Not just today or tomorrow, but every day for the rest of their lives.  That is just silly.

I feel bad if people I know intimately die. I feel bad if someone in my family dies. I know these people. I have a relationship with them. I have actual feelings for them. I don’t know Natasha Richardson. Some say she was a good actress. That is wonderful, but it does not make me feel more for her now then I did a month ago.

For example I am sure a great doctor somewhere on the planet just died as I was typing this post. I don’t feel sad for them, and realistically neither does anyone else with the exception of those immediately related or attached to them. Those people who make the “oh that is so sad” or “I feel terrible” comments are not going to be upset over this death. They just are not. And going back to what I said earlier, if they did have a profound emotional response to every single death in the world, they would be in the loony bin for deep depression.

What is more realistic is the emotional shock reaction people have to these very public death situations. Sure the deaths of Princess Di and John Kennedy were sensational and (more…)

“Octu-Mom” and the relentless stories and reports about her every move just wont go away. A quick Google search for Nadya Suleman brings up hundreds of new stories in the past 24 hours and thousands of blog and forum posts. An image search for her name brings up tens of thousands of images, cartoons, and much more. How did this madness happen? How are we celebrating a woman who has ABUSED THE PRIVELEDGE OF GIVING BIRTH?

If I hear one more story about this Anjelina Joli obsessed, milking “the system” publicity hound and her 14 children I am going to scream. Let me say this again - THIS WOMAN HAS 14 TOTAL CHILDREN AND CAN NOT AFFORD THEM WITHOUT HELP FROM YOU AND ME.

• There are reports that Nadya Suleman or a close family friend is trying to sell the video showing the birth of the 8 babies to the highest bidder. Does this not bother you? She is selling the video of the birth of her kids??
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman is getting paid to make appearances everywhere and there seems to be no end in site. WHY are we making this “news”? STOP paying her and then let’s see what happens.
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman is getting a new 3,000 square foot home. People are losing their homes because they can not afford them. And now this woman, with no real income, is UPGRADING her living conditions. Ridiculous!
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman may or may not be shopping a reality TV show to the highest bidder.
• There are reports that Nadya Suleman is getting $135,000 a month of free child care from a charity. (more…)
  

The numbers on the digital clock on my DVD player keep changing. 11:54pm, 11:55pm, 11:56pm.  Only 4 minutes to go now.

4 minutes till entering my 5th decade on the planet. For all you math majors out there that means 4 minutes till I turn 40 years old. How the hell did this happen?

I can still remember a good chunk of high school and at least 3/4 of college like it was last week. When I started my first job after graduating I had grand plans to save every penny I could and retire before turning 40. Now I’ll be lucky to stop working before I am 80. Assuming I make it past 70 that is. 11:57pm. 3 minutes left.

I wish I could slow down the clock but it keeps marching forward. Only 2 minutes of my 30’s left.  And speaking of my 30’s I had no problem with the past ten years. They actually felt pretty good. If 1999 - 2009 was the prime of my life, then what will the next decade bring? Are my 40’s the beginning ….. of the end?

I have partied hard, enjoyed an occasional drink, smoked a few cigars, rarely slept more then 4 hours a night, ate way to much fast food, and definitely not flossed my teeth enough. I am pretty sure that (more…)