Seriously am I the only sane one?

Ok, so maybe it's that I'm not really sane.  Maybe I've gone 'round the bend, and the rest of  you are sane but it looks like crazy because I'm a loony toon.  I mean let's get real here people.  Also, apologies for the delay, apparently the disparity between sanity and insanity causes synapses to misfire and I get some sort of mental time differential going on.  Either that, or, I just didn't care.  Anyway, apologies all around!

So, yes, I'm talking about some personal issues. My roommate for example, who is now engaged to her boyfriend/fiance after only knowing him for 4 months.  Yes, 4 months.  Not 4 months of dating after being friends for a year or two, nope, 4 months total.  Kinda crazy.  And don't give me that BS about sometimes it works, because the only way it works is if you give it time.  Period.  Any arguments to the contrary, especially involving my grandparents (who had a romance of the ages) are null and void, because of 3 reasons.  1) love like what my grandparents had happens for about 6 couples every year, and assuming that they actually stick with it, maybe about 3 couples every year will have such a relationship.  That's 6 people total out of 6.5 billion people in the world.  2) it was a different time and had different values.  People were forced to marry due to pregnancy because (much like today) nobody teaches anything about sex (more on that in a bit) and because they couldn't tell their parents to butt the hell out of their lives, and also because people died much earlier than they do now.  When the average age of dying is somewhere around 75-80 then that means that you had to get married at the ripe and worldly age of 20 something because you'd be dead-ish by the time your children were of marrying age. (ok so there were really 2 reasons under number 2 but whatever) 3) the love that my grandparents had was so epic it was nearly visible.  You could see a marked change in my grandmothers mannerisms and personality when she spoke of my grandfather, not to mention her physical posture and stance was completely different.  The kind of love that allows you to get married/engaged after knowing each other for under a year is so powerful it's nearly palpable. 

And then I get word that my best friend is moving into a house with her brother, his wife (my cousin, don't ask my family tree is convoluted, but not hillbilly convoluted), and their 2 kids.  A house which they are all going to rent.  But according to my source, my B.F. is going to be spending 90% of her time at her boyfriends house.  Clearly there's something wrong with this picture...

Anyway, onto other things.  I watched this past weeks episode of Glee, and while I'm completely over Blaine (who's not that cute anyway), I'm a little disappointed at the approach glee took to the whole sex ed episode.  I mean I understand that Glee is supposed to be wholesome family entertainment while a vehicle to communicate about bigger issues, blah blah blah.  Which means that you shouldn't be doing anything about sex, personally.  But if you're going to do that, it might behoove you to make an actual (or semi-actual) representation of High school students and what they know about sex.  I mean let's get real here, when I was in HS (nearly a decade ago, god I feel old) we all knew about sex and nearly half of us were having it.  Clearly things have progressed to the point that even the most sexually ignorant HS student still knows how it all works, if not having been taught by their parents/or in school, then they looked it up on the internet or from their friends.  Clearly Glee missed the mark on realism.  I mean, cucumbers causing pregnancy and storks bringing babies?  Really?  I would challenge anyone to find a HS student in the US that doesn't at least know the functions/mechanics behind sex.

So a comment on what's going on in WI at this point.  Basically, as near as I can figure, our new governor proposed a bill to actually fix the budget (which actual fiscal responsibility had been shelved for the future) after he spent 130ish million dollars on special interest groups, and said that getting rid of collective bargaining rights would help balance the budget.  The 14 democrats fearing what this would mean for their state and constituents fled the state so they could not be compelled to enter the capitol building and allow a vote (since only their physical presence in the building is required for measures regarding money.)  After three weeks of nobody listenting to anyone, the GOP of WI decided to strip the money provisions from the bill and vote on the collective bargaining rights, passing it (obviously) without the presence of the dems there.  Which they said they could do because the presence of the dems was only needed for measures regarding money, GOP removed any provisions regarding money, ergo the vote.

Now, I'm going to say that were situations reversed GOP would have fled and Dems would have done exactly what their opponents did, mostly because nobody is communicating/listening to anyone else.  That and politicians in the US are bought and not elected, and need to tow the party line in order to keep the money coming in.  That's all that's happening here in WI, and now in other states.  This is the US, welcome to the Plutarchy.

*sigh* Anyway, so I was doing some facebook-ing, or something.  I don't really remember how I came across them, except the princess ones.  That link came from a facebook group.  Anyway, since I'm a disney fan, I always like seeing art about my favorite disney characters.  So I present to you a dark take on Disney princesses, and really HOT Disney Princes.

OK, so not a lot of news, and a lot of opinionated bitching.  Welcome to the last week of my life.  Hope you enjoy the Disney stuff though!  Have fun.