Tom's tired

Bear with me. This started when my friend Keith sent me a right-wing screed called "I'm Tired", an old fart doing an Andy Rooney number. You know, down with Obama, socialism, left-wingers, liberals, Muslims, George Soros and Michael Moore, and the main stream media; up with Fox and Tea Parties and so forth.

(One interesting thing is that Keith's version attributed the nonsense to "Robert A. Hall, the actor who plays the coroner on CSI if you watch that show." Actually, that would be actor Robert H. Hall who didn't write the piece, altho it is his picture that is attached. Never trust the provenance of anything that comes in a chain letter. Snopes is your friend. The real author's blog is linked in the first graf and he now includes a note exonerating the actor Hall.)

Anyway, I'm older than Robert A. Hall, and I'm tired too. I'm tired of a few old crotchety white guys embarrassing the rest of us with their silly, frightened, anarcho-libertarian rants.

Wasted Lives

Earlier this summer Ms. Barbara and I attended the medical school graduation of her niece, the Lovely Allison.  McGill in Montreal.  She's Canadian when she needs to be. Anyway, 140 young docs, each one smarter, better looking, and (according to the program and speeches) more committed to social justice and progress than the next.  Awesome, and really quite a bit humbling, given how I spent my life.   Anyway, in line for wine and sandwiches after the parade, I fell into conversation with the man next to me and mentioned that the ceremony made me feel that perhaps I had misused my talents.  He looked at me, horror written on his face, and said, "I'm a banker!"