Sorry about that rant yesterday. Today I came armed with chocolate. Dark chocolate Dove Promises are my current drug of choice when it comes to dulling my senses against the mundane frustrations of daily life.

One of these days, I'm going to learn the proper use of a comma. It's on my To Do list.

In the meantime, I may start politiblogging again. Or, you know, reading up on quantum physics. Or writing--I could go back to working on one of my novels.

The point is, I've had my little break and my brain is starting to churn in that special way it has when it wants to tell me it's not getting enough exercise.

Getting all ranty because most people are too lazy to think is just a waste of time and not a little unreasonable. I'm frequently very unfair to people who, having dealt with the daily commute, the stress of their job, the challenge of raising a family, and the unwelcome balance in their checkbook, find themselves without the time and/or energy to figure out what the heck's going on in Bosnia or to worry about where this country is headed in ten or twenty years.

I accept--I do not like, but I accept--the reality that most people wouldn’t really care if they were living under a totalitarian dictatorship as long as it didn't change the essentials of their daily lives. Governments are formed to help ensure the daily essentials--food, shelter, entertainment--and survive as long as they don't forget about them.

I include entertainment, yes. Because while most people don't think, and don't care to think, that doesn’t really change the fact that they possess the monkey curiosity that needs to be fed every bit as much as their bodies do. The mindless banality of television takes care of that.

Bah.

The weather continues nice at the moment but they're forecasting storms tonight. Rain, then a mix of rain and snow, and a cold, slippery commute tomorrow.