Isn't this country great

Isn't it great to live in a country of free enterprise? How many other nations have wonderful businesses like Sears; the store that will sell you an appliance, charge you to "fix"it, & try to charge you again to actually complete the task. I shouldn't be too hard on them, but for Sears, illiterate unemployable rednecks would be left to their own devices. Fortunately for the Kentuckians of the world, there is Sears repair, able & willing to employ anyone who is willing to do a poor job, avoid promptness at all costs, & implement inflated prices whenever possible.

When one couples this wonderful specter of capitalism with a sagging--if not dead economy--endless financial predators, and a government determined to spend money everywhere but where needed, fight wars for no reason, and reinstitute "God" into everyone's life, how can we not be thankful. I don't think I've been this happy since the Reagan years...of course Nixon was nice too...well ya gotta love 'Bush the Elder'...All I can say for certain is that a little intern & cigar action seems pretty damn good these days.

Staying at Home with Nothing to Do

Anyone who feels that staying home with children is not a job has never done so. One toddler is enough to exhaust the most stalwart of souls but staying home with a toddler & an infant is be enough to make one recognize that life's little challenges really are little. Fortunately, being a stay-at-home-dad is primary a thankless job; it does come with the benefit of quizzical looks, rude comments, old people telling you that you are not a man, & buddies who snicker.
I thought that I took a lot of ribbing when I was teaching..."those who can do, those who cannot teach," or "you get paid alot for part-time work." Now I get the double look..."oh you stay home with the kids, how nice, what did you do before...oh...you were a teacher, how noble. Hello, have you ever tried to spend your days in a classroom? Have you ever tried to raise a child, to stimulate development & give them all of the childhood that you wanted. It's easy to look down on someone...to say "a baby just needs to be fed & changed, it easy." Anyone can comment but few can actually do.