Saturday, November 7, 2009

On a Dark Day On Which It Appears that House Dems Will Ram-Rod a Massive, Unpopular and Unread Public Option Health Care Bill Right Down Our Throats..

...(subject obviously to Senate passage) (not to mention a day that saw a truly pathetic and embarrassing performance by my University of Missouri football team against the mighty Baylor Bears), I find that just trying to get back to a few of the simple pleasures can help one put a few things in perspective. And so it was tonight that I was motivated to road-trip it the closest White Castle restaurant to the Kansas City metro area. That would be the one in Wentzville, Missouri, about three hours east of Kansas City (although I was driving from Columbia, not KC). You'll find that very few of life's worries and concerns cannot be placed on a temporary backburner when one has a nice, greasy White Castle Crave Case (30 sliders with cheese) available to shove into one's piehole. 30 Pack of Stones, 30 Pack of Sliders. What health care bill, by the way? And what's a Baylor?

(Postscript: I would generally not condone consuming White Castles, and it does go against my habitual diet -- But every now and then, especially on a dirty, rotten day like this one: It's OK.)