Independence Day

(alternatively titled A Not So Patriotic 4th)

For reasons that should be obvious, I won't be feeling particularly patriotic this impending 4th of July (certainly not patriotic enough to go off and join the military like what happened in the movie Born on the 4th of July). The state of American politics is an embarrassment and I have been continuously asking myself "Is this really happening?" It's absurd. I do wonder how this will all play out and in what kind of timeframe. I believe that Watergate took around 2 years to finally come to a climax - Nixon's resignation. It could still hopefully be fun to see the fireworks and all, but my feelings about the country lean more towards those of dread. Maybe I ought to see the fireworks in DC proper and protest (not the fireworks themselves, but the administration). Normally (with a few exceptions) we would go to the county fairgrounds to see the fireworks. 

I haven't been paying a ton of attention to eyelashes guy's columns as of late but I haven't forgotten about him. However, there is another journalist (a Real Journalist) who has caught my attention recently. He is also on CNN occasionally but he's less of an opinion commentator than eyelashes guy. This guy is more of an actual objective journalist, I would say. He covers politics for the Washington Post (I wonder how much he enjoys that? [I also wonder about Anderson's job satisfaction] I wonder what it's like to work at the Washington Post these days, also - do they feel like current times are like a 21st century Watergate?), which gives him a good amount of credibility in my book. He also isn't particularly bad looking which is pretty much why I paid attention to him when I saw him on tv. I know I'm shallow sometimes. Anyways I'm going to try and pay particular attention to the things he says/writes about from now on. I also think he has a cool last name, for the record. It's more interesting than Anderson's or eyelashes guy's last name. This is a superficial thing to make note of, but I thought it was interesting. In looking up some stuff about this guy, I found a Reddit AMA he did about a month ago, where a commenter (not him) said this, which I found to be interesting: "The purpose of journalism isn't to cause certain things to happen, but to get the truth out."  

ETA, since I thought it would fit well with what's already in this post: I've been paying attention to the (real) news as usual since I like to be informed. On CNN, Jim Acosta, who covers the White House, makes fairly frequent appearances. He's yet another in CNN's suite of silver/white haired anchors/correspondents - Wolf, Anderson, (the other Jim, who Anderson has occasionally mis-introduced on AC360 as Jim Acosta) Jim Sciutto (although not including Sanjay Gupta, who doesn't have gray hair). If we're going to count political commentators, eyelashes guy can be on this list as well. Come to think of it, there are a lot of silver/white haired people on CNN who aren't that old (as in, 70 or something). I don't know if that's an anomaly since I don't really watch other tv news networks that much although I have been trying to branch out a little bit and watch MSNBC from time to time. I think MSNBC's Chris Hayes looks like a mix of Jim Acosta (face shape) and Leonardo DiCaprio (coloring) I feel sorry for Jim Acosta because he isn't treated well by the White House. Just recently, Sean Hannity of Fox News did a segment of his show criticizing Acosta, where he described him mockingly as "CNN's White House darling," which was... amusing. Hannity leveled accusations that Acosta was unfair and biased in his coverage of the White House. My mother likes Jim Acosta because she thinks he resembles George Clooney. As far as George Clooney goes, I have better opinions of Jim Acosta than George Clooney. 
  Also, an addition to this week's Postsecret review: these secrets were posted on @postsecret and I don't I included them in any past reviews. 
"I like shopping at Walmart. Don't tell my cool friends." They have good prices and a large selection of stuff, plus people to watch. I wouldn't be ashamed of shopping at Walmart. Pretty much all people of average/below average wealth shop there, I would assume. 
"If you were to call me, I'd answer No questions asked." This one is too vague to really be particularly interesting. I don't think there is anyone in my own life that a secret like this would apply to. I assume this secret is probably about an ex (spouse, boy/girlfriend, regular friend).