Pick Your Poison!

It's snowing again and, usually, it's my favorite time to run.  This winter, though, has been a bear with the single-digit and sub-zero temperatures.  As I've noted, it's not the cold per se, but dressing with all of those layers.  Ugh.  But today was tough.  Running on the shoulders of the road, to avoid the crazy drivers at all costs (or at least most costs), is dangerous with the ruts from the cold, thaw, cold, thaw pattern.  (Why do so many people drive on the shoulders of the roads?)  But, with the seemingly infinite number of potholes on the roads, moving out to them is also treacherous.  I did do some walking this AM, esp on the shoulders to try to avoid turning an ankle.  Of course, as one woman said to me a short while ago, "You know, you don't have to run."  I smiled and said to myself, "You don't really know me.  Yes, I do."

The editorial's lead reads, "Who pays when the government screws up?"  (My emphasis.)  Really?  "...screws up?"  Is that the depths to which even our supposed smarter media have stooped?  I am pretty sure by using the word, the editor didn't mean "turning an object having a thread?"  The context is lost, of course.  The word is a euphemism or, perhaps, slang term for the "f-word."  Of course it is.  So, is that now how far we've stooped?  The editor of a major US newspaper can't think of another appropriate word?

I've also been wondering about the dislike for President Trump compared to the dislike for President Obama.  The two are a world apart.  The media, the public demonstrations, the letters-to-the-editors, and even casual conversations today, about Trump, are so vehement, frequently lacking any sense of civility.  But I can't help but think that Obama elicited the same, likely equally strong, feelings of dislike.  Why were there such outpourings of protest against him?  I'm certainly no fan of Trump and never will be; I make no apologies for that.  But, at the same time, do I dislike him any more than the Clintons or Obama?  I don't think so.  (Gee, am I the only one in the US who is an equal opportunity disliker?)  I suppose there are some reasons for that, reasons to go into at a later time.

Now, it's time for some yoga exercises and then off to take Michael to an Oakland U basketball game.