I just flew in

And boy are my legs tired. What I'm trying to say is that I'm training to run a 5k this weekend. I mistakenly had a glass of wine at dinner tonight and I don't think that mixed well with the workout. I was supposed to run at least 5 miles tonight and only ran 4. Oh well. I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone who thinks I'm an alcoholic. A 5k is only 3.1 miles (for you stupid Americans who don't know the metric system, cause I know I don't) but I want to overtrain. If I run 5 miles on Thursday then 3.1 miles on Saturday should feel like nothing. Theoretically.

The race is in Oakwood, the town where I grew up, so if I fail miserably, hardly anyone I know will see me.

Speaking of Oakwood, I was reading their little newspaper a few weeks ago and I saw this editorial: The "reality" of GTMO. So I had to respond with this (it's 2/3 of the way down the page). We're all guilty.

It made me think about holding a view very strongly. I think that so and so is true, and I believe it so strongly, that I honestly can't see any way that a rational person can believe that it's NOT true. Yet, that person who believes it's not true sits there and thinks how stupid and blind I must be to believe it. I guess that's the reason we have wars. I understand why people would feel that we can do whatever the fuck we want to anyone in the middle east. They justify it in their minds by buying into the utter lies that come out of our leaders' mouths. Well, our country elected this president, and he thinks it's right, so that means everyone wants it and it's right. I love Budweiser products and Ford trucks, and baseball....jihadist motherfuckers, Saddam, Osama, God favors us over Islam, blah blah blah. If people who believe that holding prisoners without due process is A-OK and that the Geneva Convention is only a suggestion all died, the world would be a better place.

Anyway, I have an adult job now so I have to go to bed.