On Smugness

My wife and I spend a lot of our idle time laughing at those around us. I feel bad about it sometimes. But usually, people are doing really dumb stuff, and deserve it. I'm not sure that we can do anything about it, or that we want to, but this is my confession of sorts.

I laugh a lot at the expense of people who don't appreciate luck. I tend to think that luck has about 75% influence on what happens to all of us. So people that muse about how much better off they'd be if they were left to their own devices, without some intrusive government, or family, or other entity holding them back absolutely crack me up. Seriously, I love things like roads and bridges, and unemployment insurance, and food stamps. When my luck runs out, I'll use 'em

I do things that are absolutely ridiculous, I know, sometimes I know when I'm doing them, but I cannot help myself. So, I will self deprecate, before I ridicule others.

I do the following:
Have a beard
Have a leather jacket that I do not use exclusively for riding my motorcycle
Have a motorcycle
I whistle musical scales
Don't eat meat, unless you're serving bacon wrapped bacon
Buy organic products that come in boxes
Listen to NPR
Once read a book about Oak. . . Yes the wood
Swear at my child, not near her, at her. . .and not always under my breath
Have a sailboat . . .made of plywood
Listen to Country music
Love Ace of Base
Think I'm hilarious when I'm drunk
Have a blog


Other people entertain me by doing the following:
Wearing white sunglasses (particularly straight dudes)
Listening to Indie Rock
Comparing baby milestones
Insisting that Gay people are somehow "other" than themselves
Insisting that the government does nothing that helps them
Insisting that the government is the one thing standing between them and utter success
Littering
Failing to recycle
Thinking they are hilarious when they are drunk
Not moving over while driving past cyclists
Not working
Spending more money than they have
Not knowing how much money that have
Scratching their balls. My balls itch too, I just have the decency not to scratch them in public.
Wearing skinny jeans inappropriately.
Wearing anything that reveals a muffin top.
Being condescending a-holes.

OK, so this has been cathartic, though I'm not sure I'd say useful, or valuable in any way. The other people list is longer. I guess that's an indication that I have farther to go before I reach enlightenment. Or maybe enlightenment is being able to say that someone is ridiculous and not feel bad about it. I'll get back to you.