Simply Observations

I've sat and watched this Administration birth control argument this week.  Opening up an argument with the Catholic Church (which ends up with the Southern Baptist crowd eventually)....was not that bright.  You end up with Priests and Bishops hyping up their seventy million members, and in an election year....that really screws up things.  The President will end up back-tracking....which will irritate his faithful anti-Catholic crowd who were expecting to take the church down a notch.  But I'll offer this one prospective on the whole mess.  If you were to buy a whole month of pills and pay full price at a discount pharmacy....you'd be talking about $20-$25.  What most women get in their health insurance package....is this really great discount price of $5, and sometimes....it's just plain free.  So they all think this is the way to go.....but then you have to think.....who is paying the missing $20 (if the price was $5)?  Someone is paying it, and it's not the President's imaginary friend Gus.  And the amazing missing part of the story?  If a guy came up and said he wanted twenty-five free condoms each month as part of his birth-control plan.....there just ain't any healthcare policy that would give out such a deal.  So it's all mostly a  plus-up deal for women, and the President.

Very shortly, the Pentagon will open up 14k jobs to women, which were traditionally manly jobs.  These all relate to combat, and the basic idea is that the Pentagon is more willing now to accept women in combat.  The truth here is.....if you recruit the right folks and train the right folks.....it doesn't matter if they are men or women.....they will kill you in a heartbeat, if necessary.  This may shock a few folks who still have the 1950's idea of women, but in the last thirty years.....things have changed.  My advice to any future adversary.....if being killed by a woman bothers you or your religious beliefs....you might want to find a safe place and just act friendly toward folks.  Otherwise, we may have Ms Rambo knocking at your front door.

Finally, they announced the end to House MD.  This spring will be the end of the series.  To be honest, I think the peak was the spring of 2010, and this season has been one of the most marginal periods for the show that I can remember.  The problem with good shows....if that no one really knows or grasps the best time to retire.  And in this case....we've got two lousy seasons at the end of a series....which are worthless.