Is it just me? Random angry musings...

As I sit and watch the world slowly go insane, I am filled with random thoughts that just never seem to find an outlet.  But living in my beloved small, French-Canadian town makes it hard to find anyone willing to engage in an angry debate concerning the re-writing of US history by Christian right-wing fanatics who have taken hold of the Texas department of education.... 

It has been suggested by many a therapist that you must vent your frustrations in a healthy way.  Thank you blogosphere for this outlet!  Therefore I am starting a monthly feature called "Is it just me?" in hopes of some how improving my own sanity by pointing out the world's lack thereof.

• Does any true Christian really believe that Jesus would vote against universal health care?  Really?
• On what planet must you be born to think that you can obtain a photo ID with a hood (or niqab) over your face? (local Canadian political issue)
• What kind of world leader goes on live TV to discuss his March Madness basketball picks while almost 200 thousand young men and women are in the line of fire for him?  (@manofbird - De Gaul playing petanque?)
• I think Stephen Harper prorogued parliament so he could spend 3 weeks at the Olympics... And man did he make that black Team Canada jacket look good.
• Why does FOX News seem to have such a hard time finding seemingly intelligent, rational and knowledgeable commentators?
• Marois and Charest? Is this really the best we can come up with?  (local Quebec leadership issue) A woman who claims to deeply care about the poor and underprivileged while she drives 2 (yes 2) Porsches and lives in a multi-million dollar mansion with a staff?  A man who looks like Bozo the Clown out of makeup and cannot seem to make a decision on the most simplest of issues without looking at his popularity numbers?

And last, but not least, my biggest frustration of the day:
Texas education reformers have taken measures to rewrite history textbooks for the entire state.  Amongst the edits and changes they have imposed:

• Replace the word "capitalism" at every instance with the words "free market system."   WHY?  And Sesame Street will be changing the name of Grover to "hairy blue monster who talks funny."
• John Calvin replaces Thomas Jefferson in many instances relating to the founding of the country.  WHAT? Calvin was leader of the US church reformation and propagator of modern "evangelical" thinking, but he didn't write the mother-f-ing declaration of independence dawg!  This is blatantly banishment of Jefferson because he was a secularist...
• They also stripped the emergence of hip-hop as a cultural movement from curricula on American cultural history, have moved to systematically deny that numerous Hispanics died at the Alamo, and removed important passages relating to the Ku-Klux-Klan and the plight of the American Indians. 

Has Texas decided they weren't turning out enough ignorant people from their school system?  That must be it...
Stay sane out there people - it is an insane world.