Pre-ramble Rambling

Good morning/afternoon/evening/middle-of-the-night – to you. TDFB is experiencing a font issue today. The post has come out as if it had been CCP'd from various sources. Not the case. It's all new. Looks rather crappy, if I do say so myself. However, it's on with the show.


After a very-very long-long weekend not speaking on my “Silence” at-home retreat, I’m filled with suppressed blathering and am out of the gate to begin the week’s complaints. So…..


Who deserves a flog today?


MSNBC for removing Ed Schultz’s excellent “Psycho Talk” segment on his successful program. A truth/fact-based slam at the latest madness coming out of a variety of high profile mouths, “Psycho Talk” was worth the time. Ed could be quite fiery as well as funny in his delivery of the segment. I liked it because it was brash. Fresh. Energetic. Alive. Entertaining. You know, all of the elements that make a TV program and network a hit. Something I predict MSNBC will soon realize they are not when they watch their ratings begin the Big Decline.


MSNBC again for moving The Ed Show to 7:00 P.M. PST/10:00 EST from it’s 3:00 P.M. PST/6:00 EST slot where it had garnered the highest ratings ever in that time period for the network. Another wonderful biz move. Yes, Ed’s now in prime time, but the lineup doesn’t make sense anymore. They placed the well-connected, carefully sub-toned, urbane Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word, in Countdown’s slot, followed by The Rachel Maddow Show, ending their evening lineup with Ed. I don’t know about you, but shouldn’t The Last Word BE The last word?


MSNBC once more for playing musical chairs with their female anchors so often over the years that I no longer know who to expect on a given day at any specific time other than Andrea Mitchell at 10:00 A.M. PST/1:00 EST. And who are these new fill-in cookie-cutter young white guys who all look the same that have been popping up unannounced over the past few months? Shouldn’t they be at CNN?


CNN for having too many white males who look and act alike as their primary program hosts.


FOX News for – well, for being Fox “News.”


Considering how close to GOD the above organization claims to be, I must add GOD to the list for kicking humans out of the Garden of Eden over a little bite of an apple. Isn't it supposed to be good for us? “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Nope. An apple one day caused the Creator to stray from a merciful way with his/her/it’s lack of compassion for two nude and suddenly ashamed of it, prey.  


If Adam and Eve were wandering around the garden nude all the time with no discomfort until a “no no” fruit from a vine was tasted, you must wonder what was in that apple – or was it an apple at all? A Pomegranate is by far the more alluring fruit of the two. 


Which reminds me, religious zealotry in any form is knowingly one of the most dangerous illnesses in the world. People hallucinate chariots on fire in the sky; beasts and more beasty beasts may take our souls and have them for breakfast and afternoon tea with fresh baked apricot scones bearing an uncanny likeness to the Virgin Mary.


I wonder why it’s always Mary or Jesus or Elvis making such unexpected appearances on food… The Elvis part makes better sense than the other two. We know how much Elvis liked his peanut butter and jelly banana with honey and maple syrup and the juices of nubile virgins sandwich's at night, don’t we? The guy had a jones for it. Jesus, on the other hand, was refined in his dining habits. Fish’s, loaves, wine and more wine. Thrifty, too. Could feed hundreds on a budget as if all were kings and queens.


Perhaps Elvis and Jesus are shape-shifting into grilled cheese and toast, pizzas and roasts, cuz it floats their boats. Yes, I did just write that.


Mary is an enigma. Haven’t read much about her eating preferences. Why she more than Jesus makes her saintly presence known with food particles is a definite mystery. She always seemed like a bread and water kind of girl. Not a typical Jewish mother pushing Jesus to “Eat! Eat! You’re a growing boy!”


Oh, this is turning into a lovely ramble, isn't it? Watching how a mind twists and turns can be a frightening or fascinating experience, depending on where that mind is going. Mine wants to revert back to the concern over religious zealotry and the atrocities associated with such a mind-set. And it will. In a new post.