A Common Sense of Humor

Things I Should Do More Often

-Run far
-Make tons of money and spend it/give it away each day
-Get up ten minutes earlier and pack a damned lunch
-Partake in "drawing contests" when my 8 year old begs it
-Go to soil service and find out what kills my grass every summer
-Listen to my own advice and leave my moody 13 year-old alone
-Watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

I've been preaching centrism and moderation for most of my adult life, and, thusly, have never really felt much of an allegiance to either political party. About a year ago, I wrote:

"Conservatives spit at Liberals...Liberals spit at Conservatives. Whatever doesn't hit one side in the face falls into the middle, and I make it my politics by sifting through the mud in the middle to find some rational understanding of the human heart and brain. Most of the time, I find solace in the middle. I can rationalize and empathize with the greatest rationalizers and empathizers in history...Most notably musicians, poets, comedians and huggers (not trees, but huggy people)."

That was in light of the big hubbub over schools not airing Obama's speech to school children. I could be wrong, but I think more and more people are joining me in the mud. The proverbial Pelosis and Palins keep on spitting across the political Mason Dixon line. Increasingly, the mud somehow seems the cleanest place to stand.

Nudging the muddied troops in the ribs with a big shit-eating grin is Jon Stewart.

Stewart plans his D.C. "Rally To Restore Sanity" as a not-so tongue in cheek tip of the cap to Glen Beck and is laying the common sense ground rules with sign suggestions that make me grin, really big.

-"Take it down a notch for America"
- "I'm not afraid of Muslims, Tea Partiers, Socialists, Immigrants, Gun Owners or Gays ... but I am scared of spiders."
-"Got Competence?"
-"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler"
-"9/11 was an outside job."

Doesn't it make sense to step back and filter from time to time? In the same vein that 20% of the world has 80% of the money, 20% of the county has 80% of the venom, hatred and time to be a "winger". Those same people rile people up and give their respective Party a bad name with muddy centrists; creating rifts that lose elections by cutting off their nose to spite their face. I'm not going to even type the name  Christine O'Donnell.

I think a good sense would save our country. Sense of duty, sense of responsibility to self and others, sense of humor, and the ever fading and not-so-common common sense.

George Bush did not plan the 9/11 attacks to win an oil war. Obama is not a Muslim terrorist.

Depeche  Mode said it well back when I had hair, (a sweet soccer top swoop-mullet with badass bangs in case you're wondering):
~"People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully?"

The answer, of course, is pride and ego and cowardice and envy and greed and sloth and every other reason that people argue, fight and divide. So no, I will not sit here and type Lenny Kravitz said it best in his lyrics to the song "Let Love Rule a bunch of lovey-dovey crap about turning the other cheek and loving thy neighbor...err..wait? When did that become uncool?

Anywho...I like Jon Stewart. He's smart. He gets the story straight, or tries to. He picks on everybody and demands sense where there is none. To top it off, he's damn funny (or his writers are) and that's why I need to make it a daily habit to watch the Daily Show. Maybe the country could save itself with a little common sense of humor.