SUNDAY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

. . . "Maybe shoulda gone to rehab, 'stead of 'no, no, no!" . . . now the Congress wants to appoint a "Super Congress" to do what it can't - agree on a way to raise the debt ceiling. Why would any elected official think that creating a new layer of government - consisting of members from the layer whose job it is do decide the issue to begin with - is a good idea on any level? Maybe the government should default and shut down, if its legislative body is this incompetent . . . when can 'victory' be declared in Afghanistan and Iraq, so everyone can come home? What's the wait for, Mr. President? . . . how do you tell a family member who has stopped speaking to you that you heard about their misfortune, and you feel terrible about it, and wish and hope for the best, and will keep eyes out for any potential solution? Here's hoping LOST just did that . . .what is worse, a church choir that sings really well and knows it - so much that it tries to dominate the service, or a choir that sounds awful but keeps enthusiastically, repetitively, trying? Not sure on that one . . . the country needs a month where Christians don't tell people they are Christian, they show people that they are Christian; there is a big difference . . .in a perfect world, the inventor of the 44oz. fast food beverage cup would still be in prison for that act . . . If Motel 6 will "leave the light on for you," but has lots of vacancies - meaning that "the light is on but nobody is home" doesn't that make Tom Bodette Norman Bates . . . Americans should not have to work past 70, but the trade off is that no one but the truly exceptional - the extreme upper end of the wealth pyramid, or tremendously successful entrepreneurs, should be able to afford retirement at 50, either . . . a college education shouldn't cost someone $100,000 for a State University . . . there is nothing wrong with California's Public Education system that couldn't be fixed by greater parental commitment, and some streamlined means of terminating faculty deadweight . . .