The End of The Innocence...........

Please let this be the end of all those expected end of the year Top Ten lists of "best", "worse", "new", "different", etc. etc. etc. You won't find one here.

Why does December 31st always bring out lists upon lists of mundane occurences and random brain droppings from an overly stuffed file cabinet or in box? Why? Because it's both easy and expected, and appeals to the lowest common denominator of reader/viewer/subscriber. And it give sthe talking heads something to talk about during a slow news week.

It's a conversation starter, sure. So are sports scores and celebrity meltdowns ----- doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Too often, "Journalists" just choose to take the easy way out and throw together lists and rankings and predictions for the sake of cheap and easy reads. It's so predicatble, and so wrong. Let's just do away with it all. Now. Before the end of the year.

And why we're at it, can we do away withe New Year's Resolutions?

Ramblings from a week of travel.

Whatever line you get in will slow down almost immediately.

TSA Agents at airports are sometimes a little too serious about their roles and responsibilities. That 85 year old gentleman does not need to be shaken down as if he's headed off to Alcatraz and that 6 year old girl has nothing of interest in her Dora the Explorer backpack.

You seldom see a motorcycle parked outside of a psychiatrist's office.

How often do you think they clean the carpets at airport gates?

The avearge pencil is 7 inches long, but the eraser is only half an inch.

"The price of light is less than the cost of darkness" - Arthur C. Neilsen