Russell Kirkpatrick's Journal
Random Thoughts
31-Dec-2006
Last post of the year, so here are some random thoughts.
Politicians get a bad rap. We think they're sleazy and untruthful - yet expect a higher standard from them than we do of each other, and ourselves. I got a speeding ticket recently, yet didn't appear in the news. Had it been a politician, it would have made the front page. Pollies can't take short cuts with their taxes, can't get traffic tickets, and are held accountable for things they did when moral standards were different (one of our pollies has been in the news this year for administering corporal punishment when he was a teacher decades ago). I don't think they get paid enough to have to live in a fishbowl.
Sarcasm is my favourite form of humour. Is this because it's the lowest form of wit? Hyperbole (deliberate exaggeration for effect) is a close second.
Humour is, along with music, the greatest gift we as humans have. I'm going to try to be funnier next year.
My one regret? I wish I'd been a musician. I could sing when I was younger: I ought to have joined a band.
Blast. It's tea time. I might come back later with more random thoughts.
What was that about sarcasm? Never heard of it, and would certainly never indulge in it - honest *g*
If you could sing when you were younger than you can certainly sing now. and I'll bet you could find some blokes playing in pubs and clubs that wouldn't mind having someone who can sing get up there with them - Bob Seeger said it best, You can come back, baby, rock n roll never forgets. Go for it - Granny says so.