SNL on 1070

Arizona: Education Optional - Guns and ID a Must

Oh crap, I officially live in the the most conservative state in the country - we might be in a close race with Utah, but yikes, the recent decisions regarding carrying guns and checking immigration status are disturbing.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised since when I came out west in the 70's, my dad said, "so you're going to live in Barry Goldwater country?"  I didn't care much about politics then and I obviously stayed well beyond college, but I never gave up my East coast liberal elite politics and this state is still wacked.

Back to Governor Jan Brewer and our crazy legislators.  Now you can run around our share of the southwest with a firearm clearly showing with no need to prove that you purchased the weapon legally, while walking down the same street with brown skin warrants the police checking that you have proof of citizenship.  Those with an ethnic look, beware!

Sigh - why can't AZ spend more time figuring out how to fund educating our children?  We're at the bottom of the fiscal heap in funding education but waste time with laws about guns and illegal aliens.  Pretty frustrating . . . I mean - yeehah!

Funniest Guy on TV

I may live in a conservative little town, but from this mesa, I can still get Jon Stewart's Daily Show via satellite - thank God.

Making Mesas in West Virginia

Please check out this site which shares a story, a picture and a song about mountain top mining in West Virginia.  I live on a mesa, but this poor guy had the top of the mountain he lives on removed.  I don't think he ever intended to live on a mesa.

http://www.thislandourland.org/mountain_iframe.html

Thanks to my friend Eileen for sharing this story.

Duke vs Butler

The classic big dog vs little dog - so there wasn't a storybook book ending, but it was a good game.  It's always fun to watch how the favorites and the underdogs respond to the pressure.  Are you the scrappy "let's prove everyone wrong" or do you play on the "we're expected to win" team?  I've experienced both and I prefer the come from no where role - although it may be a cop out, since if you win it's amazing and if you don't everyone says you were a long shot anyway.  Hmmm, it's still fun to be the underdog - viva la Butler!

Congrats to both teams; it's a long road to that game and I hope they all enjoyed the ride.