Excuse me while I rant

I'm irritated. Dan says I can't go on fb for a week, and I think I'll agree with that restriction*. Tonight, Sunday night, all anyone can talk about is "oh no, higher taxes, health care, blah blah blah." It's... pathetic. I am ashamed of the so-called Christians that are making this such a priority.

You know what? In two weeks, followers of Christ will be celebrating the singular, most important act in all of creation. One might argue it is The Act of creation - that we were made so that God might show us His exceptional, unfathomable, eternal love through one sacrifice. Everyone needs to hear about it! Nothing else matters compared to Christ's Resurrection.

So why the hell are so many people wasting their time getting all whiny about junk that is utterly insignificant compared to, well, anything?

Jesus died for you, for me, for mankind (and womankind if you're finicky about that sort of thing). How about we talk about that instead of, I don't know, health care.

*Every time I am tempted to go on fb the next two weeks, I will instead read my Bible.

The one where I get use my mommy instinct

My brother stayed the night at our place last night, and this morning afternoon (we were lazy) Dan and Jay and I went for a little hike at the Superstition Mountains. It was so green, the air was cool, the sky cloudless. The walk was pleasant, not too challenging.

We were just coming around the bend for the last stretch of the trail, when we saw two older couples up ahead. One of them started walking towards us and said, "Do you want to see a rattlesnake? There's one ahead, only a few feet off of the trail." We all thought that sounded cool. It was far enough away to be safe, and none of us had seen one in the wild before.

Jay hurried ahead, and Dan and I followed. We came to the other couple, and Dan and I saw the snake sliding away under a bush. But Jay couldn't see it from where he was, so he stepped off the trail with another guy who wanted a look as well.

"Good idea, Jay," I said. "Go closer to the killer snake."

He just laughed and started looking for it. He was standing right next to another bush, with the other guy behind him, for about ten seconds when we heard a very loud rattle come from that bush. I have never seen two grown men run so fast!

When he got back to the road, we could see the second snake hiding under the bush while the other one slid past behind it. Jay and the other guy had been only about a foot away from the hiding one. Two rattlesnakes! Jay (of course) complimented me on the astute use of my natural instinct to warn him about approaching deadly animals.

Dan reassured him that if needed my mommy instinct would have taken hold, and I would yell, "MOM SMASH!" then promptly kill the snake with the power of my fists.

Philanthropy

Sometimes, I think that if I had a ton of money to blow, I would put it all towards scientific grants. But not just any science - no, ridiculous studies that no one would ever fund otherwise. Like, testing the hypothesis that the speed of light has not always been constant; or testing what the effect of a cat in near proximity really is.