The madness

My dislike for sports is the basis for what I think is my dislike for some of the drivel we hear in the "24/7" news world.

People who follow sports spend an inordinate amount of energy predicting what will happen when it is in the midst of happening. They get excited about the game and the team, hoping and guessing. It seems kind wasteful to me - if you wait for a couple of hours you find out the answer in real life. Think of all the emotion, energy, potato chips, and beer that gets saved!

Elections are kind of the same. We citizens are presented the options, and we have a decision to make. Who might or might not win shouldn't really matter to the choice - we choose who we want the most and our part is done - vote and wait for the outcome. It is what it is.

Who cares what others think? They will vote the way they choose. Who cares what the polls predict? Does that change the choice the individual has? The press and the machine is spending it's resources trying to tell us why our choice is bad and why they are smarter. Make the choice, cast the vote, go to bed, and see the outcome.

I would like it much better if everyone got a mailing from the candidates that explains their position and that ended it. We make our choice and move on. Drop the hype and drivel; cut the news back to 2 one hour shows a day; take the money that is wasted on ads and stickers...maybe spend that on something that actually produces something...maybe then we'd get regular people with comon sense in office...