Outrage Fatigue

I was just reading about how the federal budget that is going to be considered by Congress next week is going to wreak havoc on the lives of poor people -- as if their lives aren't already havoc-wreaked. The budget proposes to cut $35 billion from Medicaid and Food Stamps, and to pass new tax cuts of $70 billion, which primarily benefit the wealthy. This is shocking to me, especially since most of us sat and watched the depth of poverty that Hurricane Katrina exposed, and because we know that poverty is unfortunately not exclusive to New Orleans.

I'm getting mentally tired of all of this. I was thinking about the bumper sticker, "If you are not outraged, then you are not paying attention." Maybe I'm paying too much attention. Then I happened to stumble across an amusing article in The Onion, "Nations Liberals Suffering from Outrage Fatigue." (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30624) It's obviously supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek article, but it pretty much sums up my reality. I'm suffering from outrage fatigue! Tell me, what can I take for that?

Drunken Sailor

Today is a very big day in the Crab Casa. Desi actually walked across the room!!! Previously, he had been taking 5-6 steps max and then falling over, but today he actually looked like a real toddler, doing that cute little drunken sailor walk. Meanwhile, he still doesn't have any teeth. We KNEW he'd end up walking before getting teeth. Personally, I'm glad the teeth haven't come in because I still nurse him occasionally, ifyaknowwhatimean. Now if we could only get Azalea out of pull-ups...

In other news, there is WAY too much going on, as reflected by the lack of posts on this blog in the past couple weeks. More later...