Suck it up!

So I was driving into work today and I heard this story about a man who used a stun gun on his 18 month old. I was thinking, what terrible thing could an 18 month old do that would suffice this kind of abuse and the obvious answer is: Nothing. However I was truly shocked (no pun intended) to find out the rest of the story. Apparently the reason the man was using a stun gun on his kid was that he "wanted his child to be tough... to be toughest cage fighter ever."

Read the whole thing here.

Are you kidding me? What the crap is wrong with people? "My baby is crying, he must not be tough, I'm going to make him tough! I'm gonna use my stun gun on him, that'll toughen him up! Put hair on his chest! Make him a man!" Is this really what some people think?

Eighteen months old. EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD! He supposed to be soft and cuddly. He's still just a baby.

What is with our culture and thinking a man has to be uber-macho to be a man? I'm not discussing sexuality here, but why do guys that show any emotion at all always get the "Gay" moniker? Like I said, not going into the whole right and/or wrong side of this, but to a straight man, being called gay is an insult, agree with it or not, to most straight men this is truth.

What makes a man macho? Seriously what does it take? No emotions? Lack of intelligence? The ability to use a stun gun on an 18 month old?

I don't know and quite honestly I don't think I care. If being macho is what this man of men was, I don't want it.

Edison Glass - This House

If you've never seen this before, you must watch it now. I absolutely love this song and video. Edison Glass is quickly becoming one of my top 5 bands, we will see how awsome they are when they release their new album in February.

One note of interest, they have 2 lead singers. Yeah, 2 singers, not some dude that screams and some dude that sings, not some dude that raps and some dude that sings, 2 full time lead singers. They have pipes too, I mean they can wail. I saw them with Blindside (Check my other posts, about the greatest concert ever) and they blew me away. You don't have to like them, just listen.

It was a dark and stormy night...

...seriously! I was home sick from work yesterday, I was sitting watching TV minding my own business when I noticed how unusually dark it was, it's only 3 o'clockish and it looks like dusk.

I knew we were supposed to have some wild weather last night, but I had no idea it would be that bad. Yeah, so I don't watch the news or the weather channel or any of that. Most of the weather information I have is hearsay. So there I am, I decide to switch to one of the local stations and the regularly scheduled Oprah was not on! OMG! There's this huge radar map thingy that shows my impending doom on the horizon.

Big, bad, mean, storms rolling up from the southwest. You know, thunder, lightning, gallons of rain, hail and tornadoes. The first thing that runs through my head "Oh man, I can't wait to see this!" It's like the Grim Reaper is knocking on my door, and not only do I want to open the door, I want to invite him in and hand him the freaking sickle.

I absolutely love storms, I always have, my mother would scold me for saying that, but I honestly do. I love to go and drive through the hail, howling wind, lightning, and torrential rain. I don't know why, I just do. Unfortunately it was not to be, I was still sick, thus being at home, and I really didn't feel like going anywhere. I know some people lost a lot in the storms and I truly do sympathize with them. I still can't help but hope that another one comes through soon. I can't wait to go driving in the storm with ole GR as my passenger.