So the S&P downgraded America's credit rating... about time! If you or I were spending like the US is and increasing our debt continually, massively and stupidly, what kind of credit rating would we have I ask you? Frankly, I am surprise it's taken so long to get to this point but let's explore whats wrong with the US...

1. Too many polarized views - no one can agree and the whole thing has simply become a political circus about scoring points off of each other as opposed to working together as elected officials for the good of the population. Part of the issue is that frankly, the vast majority of Americans are, well, uneducated sheep who simply believe what the read or hear from the pulpit. So I don't expect the politicians to get dumped anytime soon - tho they should be.

The more I think on it the more I realize that certainty is an illusion. History was written by the winner, the news is provided with a spin and other people are opaque. We know nothing for certain. It used to be that the internet might provide information but it too is now nothing but opinion and scare mongering. Nothing can be relied upon. We have to look inside ourselves for anything of value – anything that can be relied upon – but it too is colored by our ego and personalities.

So in the end, if the past is a colored view and the future a fancy, what do we have left? Simply to live in the moment…..

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What happened to the concept of a role model? These days our supposed role models smoke weed, use cocaine, make movies of themselves having sex, get out of cars in short skirts and no knickers, and generally make right asses of themselves. I read yesterday of a homophobic pastor in the US being accused of homosexual advances on young men in his 'flock'. Innocent until proven guilty I guess but they appear to be lining up in droves to sue this guy....

Nope. The role model is dead. These days the rich and famous behave like perverts and lemmings follow suite.

Who would have thought, for example, that Mel Gibson would turn out to be such a prat? or that some plain Jane idiot like Lady Ga Ga Blah Blah would become such a celebrity and appear in photos naked except for raw meat covering strategic places?

I wonder are ass cracks the new cleavage?

My partner tells me that men like cleavage (breast cleavage) because it reminds them of ass cleavage - can this be true?

What do you think?