So it's been a long time since I've posted. Strange feeling. Maybe I think I haven't had much to say. But, in fact, I have. 7-plus weeks of surgery recovery can have a strange effect on people. It did on me. I love politics. I bet you don't hear that spoken much too often nowadays. But it's true. I love the risk/reward ratio for its prospective winners, and I'm mystefied at the way politics has become simply a way to surpass one's own self-defeatism. You remember what they say - those who can't do teach, right? Well I think we need to amend that saying to "Those who refuse to admit to reality, govern". So here we have it. Finally. In one corner we have the potentially oldest US president in our history, a modern day mixture of Dwight Eisenhower and Woody Woodpecker; a mix between a self indulgent Senator and a man whose only true inspiration to the presidency seems to stem from his belief he should have won it 8 years ago. A pigmentally-challenged man who, some say, may be too willing to say anything to get elected. (remind you of anyone else?!) On the other end we have the new HNIC of the Democratic Party. A man who just a few short years ago was basically doing what I was doing - Social Work! Does that mean I should run for President? Of course not. But I digress. Everyone loves a good orator. But it's behind those words where true meaning lies. I always loved the question people in the media would pose to prospective voters back in 2000: "Who would you rather have a beer with?" As if Barack Obama is going to come to Clifton, NJ and head over to Pub 46 for a brewski. As Alicia Silverstone would say, "As if!" I'm sorry. I just don't understand. Where is the truth? Hiding behind some massive wall in the middle of Washington DC? Has it been so obscured that Paris Hilton and Britney Spears garner higher ratings that the leader of the free world? That more Americans vote for a pimply-faced 18 year old singing quasi renditions of songs we'd all like to forget than the leader of our country? I guess it was just a matter of time tho... So what do you do when you don't know what to do? Well I thought about it, and came up with three things I'd rather do than vote in the Presidential election this year. Here they are (in no particular order): 1. Take a trip to Sudan without bug spray 2. Watch 3 full seasons of Lauren and Heidi fighting over...well..nothing! (Wait...already did that) 3. Take a $100 hit from Kimbo Slice (Ouch!) What do you do when you don't know what to do? It's something that will keep me busy for the next 5 months, until the November election. Maybe between now and then my thoughts will have changed; maybe I will have been blindsided by truth, forgiveness, and candor. Doubt it. But why close the box when my cat will only chew through it! As I ask myself, "Where have all the cowboys gone?", I look forward to one thing however: At least there's a new iPhone coming out!