YeeHa! Texas!

I am now in Texas!

My move is complete, but the unpacking is not.

What a beautiful place.

So, yeah. It is hot, but it is better than too cold.

Love the people.

The wild-life is awesome. Well, by wild-life I mean regularly encounterable critters. In this case, lizards, birds, and bats.

Back in Atlanta all I saw was a lone bat circling my local area. In Texas where I work, during window cleaning, the bats were disturbed enough I could see a dozen in the parking garage; many circled our building during the day during the cleaning. Near where I live is a location to buy tickets for a comfortable seating to watch thousands of bats emerge at dusk from a hollow. The nearby river-walk also is quite a spetacle.

Upon my return from the market on my first shopping day with an initial load of staples I set my bags down inside my door-wall. I went and gathered the rest of my pack and set those down too. I picked up the first bag I intended to unload and saw something scurry from its place to an adjacent bag.

All I thought was "Crap! A roach."

I shifted and lifted bag after bag while I shooed the critter into the open. Once I was successful I found it was not a roach but a small, (baby?), gecko. This gorgeous lizard that back in Michigan that would fetch from $20 to $100 just waltzed into my abode.

If intelligent design is true, then Jim Henson was an angel birthed upon the earth; he designed the gecko before that. The gecko looks like a muppet; it is so muppet like it is surprising it does not talk.

I bet Henson created the Platypus on a bet too.

I've seen anoles scurrying around outside my place. In fact, I have seen the most brilliant green borne by an anole crawling up the outside of my building with a tail that transitioned from green to brown to black like he was a lit candle blown out after a few seconds. However, the anoles are like willow o' the wisp and scurry the closer you come towards them.

At work vultures and birds of prey perch and saunter about the buildings edge. These creatures can take a perception that birds are fragile creatures and twist them into beasts to fear. They sport a mass to be reckoned with.

Texas.

I have come home.

The Grovel Shuffle

Alec Baldwin wondered if he cried when he apologized if it would have helped him.

Why is he wondering about crying? The Melissa Harris-Perry apology. Did you see it?

And what was this really offensive content she is apologizing for? This:

Should Melissa have apologized?

Unless she was the producer of the show, no. The worst she did was laugh at the jokes and mused about a future marriage between Kanye West's kid and Romney's grandchild; this is just an absurd pop icon mix.

The apology should come from the producer of the show and/or the comedians.

But was the commentary really that offensive? Am I calloused in thinking it was no big deal? All I saw was how they were bent on highlighting racial differences.

Would crying have helped Alec?

Probably not. Alec's show ratings were horrible. His poor remarks made it relatively easy to get rid of him.

In addition, we are in a bizarre hyper-sensitive state of social commentary crucifixion and lash-back.

Hyper-sensitive weenies

It seems to have started on the left and politically correct speech; sort of like Communist Russia where as gender identifying pronouns were replaced with comrade. Conservative speech in this vein has been marked as intolerant; people have been crucified in the press for stating political ideals that are different.

However the right has now jumped onto the hyper-sensitive bandwagon. They scream for the heads of people on the left that say things that would be met with rage if said by a conservative. The hypocrisy should be pointed out, but should people be fired over it? NO! Let the market take care of it.

We are seeing a cultural backlash with the Melissa apology, the Bashir resignation, and the Baldwin and Olbermann firings. Then there is the backlash to get Phil Robertson back onto his show in reaction to the over-reaction to his statements.

This mess over the comments made about the Romney family photo involved comedians. Sorry folks but sometimes comedy it a bit harsh. Are we going to have to have state approved jokes now? There is no way that the act Andrew Dice Clay became known for would be allowed today and yet back in his time he packed the house.

So why don't all of you weenies just relax and stop getting your undies bunched up over every little thing.

Or should I apologize for this post?

Would it help if I cry?

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Joe Dan asked for us to share, again. You got it!

Do you watch Personal Liberty?

Soooo simple