{"id":2454,"date":"2010-01-11T06:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2010-01-11T06:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T11:57:15","slug":"crap-monday-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2010\/01\/11\/crap-monday-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap, Monday Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I somehow pried myself out of bed this morning (a very painful process that made me want to cry), I began to wonder &#8211; what&#8217;s the world record for most time spent in bed by a non-comatose person, and would there be any money in breaking it?  Sadly, it appears that Guinness doesn&#8217;t include this one in its record books, so I guess I have to keep getting up.  Another alternative occurred to me, too.  It&#8217;s a long shot, but I watched something on one of the science channels the other day (I&#8217;ve seen it before, actually), about what would happen when a killer comet hit the Earth.  As you can probably guess from the &#8220;killer&#8221; moniker, the outlook wasn&#8217;t good (basically, get incinerated, get drowned in the tidal wave, die as the global temperatures reach 212&deg; F, or freeze\/starve to death as the ensuing dust cloud blocks out the sun &#8211; plus everything electronic gets fried by an EM pulse).  But there was about a month or so when you knew it was coming and, presumably, you wouldn&#8217;t have to bother going to work anymore at that point.  As long as the Internet kept working, that would be a pretty good month.<\/p>\n<p>So, whattya think? Is Harry Reid a racist that ought to resign?  In case you hadn&#8217;t heard, way back during the Presidential election campaign, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/01\/09\/obama.reid\/index.html\">Harry apparently said<\/a> that, since Obama is light-skinned and doesn&#8217;t talk like &#8220;one of them&#8221; (unless he wanted to), being black wasn&#8217;t more of a help than a hindrance (he probably could have added that Obama is &#8220;clean,&#8221; too).  So, either he&#8217;s an evil racist or he&#8217;s VP material. Now, using the word &#8220;Negro&#8221; is a little old school, I&#8217;ll admit (then again, Harry&#8217;s a bit old-school himself), but I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d disagree with the argument that, if Obama was black as coal and spoke like Jesse Jackson, he&#8217;d never have gotten nominated, let alone elected.  In fact, didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/03\/04\/obama-skin-tone-darker-in_n_89829.html\">somebody or other<\/a> get caught &#8220;darkening&#8221; Obama&#8217;s picture to make him look more evil?<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are, of course, all bent out of shape.  I guess Reid just isn&#8217;t PC enough.  Next thing you know, they&#8217;ll be jumping down his throat for not saying &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of racism and political correctness, a small group of people (the perpetually offended) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/10\/avatar-critics-see-racist-theme_n_418155.html\">have their knickers in a knot over Avatar<\/a>, claiming that it&#8217;s yet another example of the White Hero coming in to save the noble, um nine-foot tall blue people.  OK.  But he&#8217;s saving them from the White Devils, so that ought to count for something, no?  Plus &#8211; and I really hate to point this out, but &#8211; it&#8217;s a freakin&#8217; <strong><em>movie<\/em><\/strong> people.  A movie about a planet full of big blue people living in a rain forest getting devastated by humans wanting to rape the planet for its natural resources.  The problem isn&#8217;t that there&#8217;s a white messiah saving the natives on the fictional planet of Pandora &#8211; it&#8217;s that there aren&#8217;t any <strong><em>real<\/em><\/strong> messiahs (white or otherwise) out there capable of saving our own planet from the greedy corporations that are killing it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I guess I suppose I&#8217;d better get going to work.  I just wish there was a way off this hamster wheel (short of global annihilation, that is).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I somehow pried myself out of bed this morning (a very painful process that made me want to cry), I began to wonder &#8211; what&#8217;s the world record for most time spent in bed by a non-comatose person, and would there be any money in breaking it? 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