Nit Picky

I was watching Good Morning America this morning and I think I must be getting old and crotchety because I got a little miffed about some of the stuff they were talking about. When are we going to stop letting the media decide what is important? In the grand scheme of things, shouldn't we be doing that for ourselves? And if we were, the media would stop making such a big deal out of things. So here's my gripe.

The first thing that was being discussed was Chief Justice John Roberts stumbling during the oath of office. Frankly, wasn't he just a little bit nervous as well? If I had to swear in the President of the United States, I would be shaking in my shoes. And it was 4 degrees. OK, maybe not 4, but it was damned cold. He was probably freezing his dangly parts off. Chief Justice Roberts is also a constitutional law expert and he rewrote it slightly. But then he forgot how he had rewritten it. Big deal, people. Apparently, there was fuss that it was not done the right way, which meant he wasn't really the president. Not a problem with me, but whatever. They reswore Obama in, and had him resign all of his executive orders. Leave it alone. It happened, it was corrected. And Roberts even apologized to Obama. And Obama covered for him very well. That is probably one of the few nice things you will hear me say about him. Don't get me started on GitMo.

And Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from the race for the Senate seat left empty by Hilary Clinton. There is a video of her doing an interview on YouTube and she says "Ya' know" several times. She is not really a public speaker. With a script or a prewritten speech she does a wonderful job. An interview is completely different. You have nothing to fall back on, to rely on, to help you out. I've found myself using "like". And I use it quite frequently. I am like trying to like break myself of it because like I don't like how like it like sounds. See? But leave the woman alone. Once again, grand scheme of things.

So here I go up on my horse. You would think that as scared of heights as I am, I wouldn't be on such a high horse. But I'm not always the smartest egg in the bunch. Enjoy your day. And try figuring out where your grand scheme fits in with society. Mine isn't matching very well right now.