Sometimes Logic Hurts

Have you ever had a logical conviction that you went all-in on, yet it seemed to go against the grain of societal norms? Not so long ago I had a conversation with my wife about her multiple AM alarms she has set. I think her alarms start going off around 6:30 AM and don't stop until around 7:45AM. And me, trying desperately to apply logic to an illogical situation told her what my own AM routine was. I set one alarm for the time I need to get up, I shut it off, go about my day, and then I'll do it all again tomorrow. Evidently, such a way to go about life was just far too logical for her taste. Her twisted logic was explained to me like this, "HITTING THE SNOOZE BUTTON IS THE VERY BEST SLEEP OF THE NIGHT." Wouldn't it make more sense to just set one alarm for when you absolutely NEED to get up, and then GET UP like an adult? What a radical concept! Wouldn't your sleep be less interrupted that way? Maybe if you stopped staring at your phone until 3AM watching Tic-Toc videos you wouldn't have such a hard time dragging your ass out of bed. Once again, that is far too logical for the estrogen that courses through her veins to process. Rant complete.

After doing some interviewing however, I realize I am in the minority, not the majority. This only proves to me that most Americans are just (to some degree) mentally deranged. As you can well imagine I have a set bedtime that I am religious about. People around this house KNOW if dad gets in bed any later than 9PM (and that includes weekend nights) the house better be on fire. It may just be possible that Americans in general don't realize just how important sleep really is. There is more going on than getting forty winks anytime we go into that catatonic type of REM sleep. Sleep is the number one way for us to repair our bodies from the damage we inflict upon it doing our 9-to-5 jobs. Although it seems that many of us neglect the process, or at the very least refuse to give it its full attention. Many people just use it a way to pass the time until tomorrow gets here. I've known people that can get by with three or four hours of sleep per night, but they are few and far between.

Nothing will give me a case of the red ass quicker someone taking a problem that was solely theirs and by default trying to make it mine. I refuse to play that game! When the person next to you on the highway in the morning cannot seem to stay in their own lane, it's not usually because they a sleepy, hung over, or even trying to eat a breakfast burrito while behind the wheel. Nine times out of ten they are being distracted because they are staring at their phone. Distracted driving is every bit as dangerous as having one too many beers. This infuriates me and there is now a law on the books about it in Oklahoma, however I rarely see anyone getting pulled over because of it. Trust me when I say it's high time to make an example out of some folks.

And now allow me to change gears and talk about a completely different subject but follows the same line of thinking. I'll start out this thought like this; at what point will we just stop talking about the Epstein Files and just put the subject to bed? Yea, I get it, many underage people were treated cruelly and taken advantage of. But at what point will we just expose the files, hang the offenders in the town square by their giblets, and just call it a day? Until that day happens wouldn't it be a better use of our time to JUST SHUT OUR PIE HOLES ABOUT IT? I'm sick and tired of listening to the drive-by media beat on this subject like that gorilla on the Samsonite commercial from the 70's. Not only is the media in love with the sound of their own voice, but they are also convinced they are living in our heads rent free. And after the Covid debacle, why wouldn't they think that? They essentially owned the whole country with nothing more than some sub-par journalism and what their ilk refers to now as "DISINFORMATION." It's not called lying anymore, it's called disinformation. I wish I had known about that word as a kid.