Well, it’s May

Yes, it’s May. I’m not quite sure where April went, but it’s definitely May.

I think I’m becoming partially immune to the idiocy I see every day in the headlines. I’m becoming jaded. Instead of a healthy dose of indignation, these days I find myself more likely to shrug and say something like “yeah, no real surprise there.”

Just a few things.

John Edwards, who I thought at one time might make a reasonable Presidential candidate, is on trial for what amounts to misappropriation of funds. Yes, innocent until proven guilty, but using campaign funds to support a mistress is something someone shouldn’t even be accused of.

The DEA “forgot” about a suspect and left him, a university student, alone in a cell for four days.

Ann “we’re just plain folks” Romney, apparently wears $1,000 blouses.

Mitt Romney hired a gay foreign affairs consultant and then caved in to the howls of indignation from the Religious Right and had him resign.

Another study has come out that demonstrates that abstinence only education doesn’t work. Despite a drop in teen pregnancy in the country, states with “abstinence only” sex education still have the highest teen pregnancy rates. The ink wasn’t even dry on the report before Right Wing idiots were saying on talk radio that “all the data” supports “abstinence only” education whatever the hell that means.

A woman in New Jersey was arrested for taking her 4 year-old daughter to a tanning salon.

“Octomom” has filed for bankruptcy citing almost $1,000,000 in debt. Who in his right mind would extend her significant credit?

At a high school journalism lecture, Ted Savage, founder of the “It gets better” movement, managed to get a group of students to walk out when he challenged the moral issues in the bible. He then called the act of walking out “pansy-assed.”

Barack Obama keeps reminding everyone that “he” killed Osama Bin Laden. No Barack, a Navy Seal killed Bin Laden. You were watching at a safe distance in a comfortable conference room.

The NFL Draft is over. The Colts took Andrew Luck, the Redskins Robert Griffin III and the Giants, picking 32nd, got a running back from Virginia Tech named David Wilson. I was at MetLife Stadium during the first rounds of the draft and got to see the Lombardi Trophy.

Roger Clemens is on trial for perjury over his use of performance enhancing drugs.

And, saddest of all, Junior Seau has apparently committed suicide. Seau is the eighth player from the Chargers lone Super Bowl team in 1994 to have died.