All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten is a wonderfully written book by Robert Fulghum.   I read it about 20 years ago when it first came out.

Share everything
Play fair
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t  yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
~ and so on…buy the book, it’s really good.

ANYHOOOOOOO…I started thinking about this book yesterday after all the moronic, stupid shit going on lately.   You’ve got Kanye West standing up without being invited and speaking out of turn at the awards show….stealing the limelight from young Taylor Swift….You’ve got Serena Williams actin a fool at a tennis match.   Such a refined lovely young lady beating her racquet into the ground and threatening to shove a ball up someone’s ass.  Wait, I mean effing ass.  Ladylike.

You’ve got Joe Wilson shouting out during a speech, “you lie…boy“ to the President on national t.v.   It’s bad enough that he made himself look stupid, but the ….”boy” made him look….oh…a bit racist ?   YA THINK?  This is a man who is representing an entire State for God’s sake. And by the way…what year is this anyhow?  1960?

(*and yes, he did use ‘boy’ according to those sitting directly around him)Correction:  As pointed out by my bloggy friend Cara (landofbean.blogspot) this reporter who ‘heard’ it now states it was implied.  Hmmmm….implied?  How sad for that and how sad that that has become conversation amongst some, including me.  Article here.  I cannot keep the ‘boy’ in this post if it is implied.  So it’s out.  But I still don’t like what Wilson said…implied or otherwise.  But if it didn’t actually come out of his mouth in concise words, I’m certainly not going to perpetuate it here.  That would make me no different then who I’m bitching about.

You’ve got people who have taken town hall meetings to whole new levels.    Not just Republicans….I’m really not just talking about Republicans.  Many people hated Bush also and showed it in ways that were pretty off color.  Like when he left the White House for good and people starting singing…..Na Na Na Na…Hey Hey Hey…Good…BYE!   Now I’ll be the first to say that I didn’t like him (at all) but to act like a butt isn’t the way to go.   I don’t even think a child would have done that.

I wonder what has happened to this world in the last decade.   Doesn’t it seem to have gone real bad…real fast?   What has become of people that they spread false information knowingly about another?   I cannot even tell you how many emails I get in a week that are so bizarre….and all it takes is one little check on snopes.com  for anyone to see the truth….but yet the emails continue to be forwarded.    It’s just bizarre!  There is no honesty and integrity anymore.   People just let the shit spew out of their mouth and well, they just don’t care.  I know MY mom used to say, “Think before you speak”.  (and I’m pretty sure that goes for anything written as well)

But I’ll tell you what, if I was sitting near Kanye, Serena OR Wilson I would have smacked each one of them HARD upside their head.  With a copy of Fulghum’s book. Seems to me, that what we learned as kids has gone far out of our memories.   And so, I’ll end this little rant with another quote from the book:

And it is still true, no matter how old you are – when you go out into the world,
it is best to hold hands and stick together.

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