Oh No!!!

Well, It's been a little too long since my last post, so I am already breaking my promise to myself to keep on top of this blog thingy. It doesn't bode well for me as a writer, and it certainly doesn't bode well for keeping any form of consistency on the web. I am a shadow - a ghost if you will - here one moment and gone the next. If anything, my avatar is certainly appropriate.

However, a lot has happened in my world since the last time I reared my head. The Democrats actually managed to pull off a successful election finally, and they did it by posing as moderate conservatives. Surprise, surprise. I guess I was right all along… ;-) Kidding aside, I think this election was an important wake up call for all politicians (not just republicans). The republicans made a crucial misjudgment of the psyche of the citizens of the US by using their advantageous majority to swing us from one extreme (the loony liberal) to the other (the dangerously psychotic neo-conservative). In other words, they missed the point. The reason why we ran the loonies out of office in the first place was the sheer extremeness of their views. Granted, to some of us, the neo-con extreme was a refreshing change from the original, but too much of anything is not a good thing, and we soon learned that everything in moderation is the key. I like to compare good politics to that of a good restaurant - good menu variety comprised of foods with delicate balances of contrasting flavors and spices. The republicans fed us nothing but Big Macs with extra onions for 6 straight years. Perhaps an Alton Brown/Rachel Ray ticket in 2008?

I wish my football season was as successful as the Democrats were. As it happened, my season was a mentally and emotionally exhausting roller-coaster ride into oblivion. It started out with such shining and high hopes - The Buckeyes were ranked number 1 and beat number 2 Texas at the start of the season. And the Bengals, my beloved Bungles, went 4-0 in pre-season and Carson Palmer looked well recovered from his devastating knee injury that knocked him out of the playoffs last year. But we all know how it went - the hated Ravens dominated the division, the Bengals teased (heartbreakingly) a few times, but never could quite clench a playoff spot, and the Buckeyes got their asses handed to them by the heavy underdog Gators in the National Championship. I console myself that, at the very least, the Cowboys ended on a low note, which does do my heart some good.

Oh well, there's always next year. Besides, the Bengals will get a better draft pick and an easier schedule, and the Bucks have a lot of starters returning. And we did kick the crap out of Michigan.