A Few Thoughts

On Stoplights
Yellow lights in Colorado Springs are unusually long. It makes it an excellent place to squeeze in at the last minute. Is it yellow lights? Sometimes I think they are orange. People also accelerate very quickly when the light turns green. Maybe I'm used to the slow pace of Arkansas, but these people are fast. Even like soccer moms in minivans are flooring it off the line. Have you ever wondered why the lights have those little shields around them? I can't decide if it diminishes glare, or keeps people from looking to see when the light turns so they can gun it off the line. I also think there should be an amendment to traffic laws. Here is the scenario: say you are at a 3-way intersection. You are on the street that can either turn left, or go straight. There is no road to your right. I think that you should be able to go straight on red in this situation. It's no different than turning right on red at a four way. All you are looking for is the people on your left, making a left hand turn. I'll talk to my local police man.

On Iraq
On the radio today, I heard that 2 soldiers sued Boeing for a helicopter malfunction that happened in Iraq. They were awarded some 15 million dollars. They said one soldier was left a quadriplegic and the other sustained lesser injuries. A quadriplegic is about the worst injury you could sustain apart from sustaining death. That leaves a very wide range of lesser injuries. p.s. I'm sick of Iraq and I don't even care any more. I just wish everyone would be happy and love each other. I also hate it when people try to talk about Iraq like they know more about foreign policy than the government does. If you know so much, run for president.

On Pop Divas
Why do people care about other people? It's usually because they have a relationship with them and have invested things into their life. That's why I'm perplexed by people caring about celebrities. As most of us know, Anna Nicole Smith recently died of collapsing(otherwise known as an OD), in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Every morning when I turn on the TV, reporters and journalists scramble around to find the latest news on Smith. The thing I saw that disturbed me was images of young kids and teens that had gathered for a memorial to her. You've seen them before, posters with little pictures of the deceased with little messages and candles and text like RIP so and so. I was thinking, why do these people care??? They obviously never knew this person personally and therefore should have no interest in her death. I guess its different for an honorable person. When someone dies that is famous, that has lived a life of honor and grace and love, people should celebrate their death, even if they never knew them. I guess I just don't get it when people care about someone they don't know, who has lived a terrible life. Drugs, pornography, adultery, and greed were all a huge part of this woman's life. What good does it to memorialize her? So Britney has shaved her head and has checked into drug rehab twice in one week. I love how everyone cares so much.

On Reporters
I guess what angers me is the medias eagerness to unveil terrible things. That's why I was so happy when Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith gave all their credit to God. The media couldn't do anything with it and you could tell they were disappointed to hear these things. They were looking for the next T.O. scandal, or C. Johnson's latest end zone blasphemy. They couldn't find it. All they could find was God-fearing men. Thanks for the bust-out guys.