When I find myself fighting with a wireless mike, i often complain to my group exercise classes that, in addition to commanding the disciplines of physiology, kinesiology, choreography and CPR, I also must be an audio/video expert. Clearly these are not complementary skill sets.

But I’ll hush on up after reading about what teachers in Texas are now doing. Talk about “scope creep” in your job description!

Then again, they are from Texas so maybe it isn’t such a stretch….lest you think I’m being a blue state snob, take it from the source:

“Country people are take-care-of-yourself people. They are not under the illusion that the police are there to protect them.” — David Thweatt, Harrold, TX school superintendent

Take the state of Alaska, for example.

“Hey, indictment isn’t conviction.”

“84 is the new 50.”

“People have been voting for Ted for 40 years and their inclination is to keep doing it,” Dave Cuddy, a former state lawmaker who finished a distant second to Mr. Stevens, said in a phone interview several hours before the polls closed.

We’ve all been there.

I used to LOVE John McCain. The heroic, principled maverick who did what he wanted to because he thought it was the right thing at the risk of losing personal power.

Right?

Well, maybe it was all a figment of my imagination. That image dissolved when I read that one of McCain’s primary differentiators to Bush – his fiscal policies – had eroded.

So I was forced with a painful, wrenching decision:

OPTION #1: Stay embroiled in the past….the facade…the delusion…that he would do the right thing, regardless of partisan power plays. That reality felt SO good. It let me believe what he said. It enabled me to vote with conviction. Gave me a glimmer of hope in the human race.

OPTION #2: Receive the new data. Recreate the model. Rewrite history.

Sigh. Yeah….

Find/Replace!