Profound Thoughts (Not Really)

It's amazing how I have so much time to write on my blog (well, ok, this week not at all)* but when I have a test the next day I magically have a few words to say.

That's right beeetches, only a few because I really do have to get back to muscular contractions and all that fun stuff.

My amazingly I-could-not-wait-until-tomorrow thought was that a person's quality of life goes significantly up when they surround themselves with people they trust and admire. As my good friend once told me, never hang around the ones that bring you down because they don't want to see you go up. And I've had moments in life when that has happened. Duh. Ok that is my cue to stop writing and start filling up my brain with smarter things.

*But on a sidenote, this week has been horrible. I even locked myself out of the car. It was not fun. Ok, I just realized that was totally random.

638 Ways to Kill Castro

If you click on the title of this post, it will take you to the article that explains some of the various ways the CIA hatched a plot to kill this elusive Cuban.

My favorite was using the old lover. I don't know if the amusing part of the stories are the types of ways the people have proposed to kill him, or the ways that the attempts went wrong (My favorite had both).

I still don't truly understand the threat Castro is on the United States other than being incited to become a threat. Honestly, communism was pretty dangerous for the U.S. back in the 1950's when the Soviet Union could use Cuba to launch missiles, but the concept of hating communism to the point of starting a worldwide brawl is a bit unfathomable for me.

I see how Cuba can be dangerous (I mean, after you attempt to assassinate its leader 638 something odd times I doubt they ever would consider reconciling their differences and becoming buddies).

Maybe with all our worldly disputes that are problematic for us right now, they can only begin with this country's paranoia. If we allowed communism to be, if it was only okay and fair with us, if we truly believed that democracy was the best way to go, then we should have allowed history to run its course and prove it right. Why start wars and pick fights unless there is some ulterior motive for us to destroy peoples lives? Now don't tell me that it's true ;)

Crazy Drivers

I don't know if I ever mentioned my newfound development of road rage, but it has slowly progressed. And here is a good example why:

The other day I was minding my own business, driving my car along the road where there was median that blocked traffic from crossing into the opposite side of the road.

Yeah, well as I was driving I noticed this guy in a pick up truck was serving in and out of the same lane as mine. And heading right towards me.

Yes, that's right, he was on the WRONG side of the road and I was about to become part of a head on collision with a psychopath. At first I was in total shock and could not believe this was happening. When it became fairly obvious that the car truly was getting closer and not farther away from me, I stopped the car dead in the middle of the street right before crossing the intersection. The guy then used that opportunity to cut right in front me to turn onto another road.

I don't know if I will be eventually developing road rage or road terror.