As I somehow pried myself out of bed this morning (a very painful process that made me want to cry), I began to wonder – what’s the world record for most time spent in bed by a non-comatose person, and would there be any money in breaking it? Sadly, it appears that Guinness doesn’t include this one in its record books, so I guess I have to keep getting up. Another alternative occurred to me, too. It’s a long shot, but I watched something on one of the science channels the other day (I’ve seen it before, actually), about what would happen when a killer comet hit the Earth. As you can probably guess from the “killer” moniker, the outlook wasn’t good (basically, get incinerated, get drowned in the tidal wave, die as the global temperatures reach 212° F, or freeze/starve to death as the ensuing dust cloud blocks out the sun – plus everything electronic gets fried by an EM pulse). But there was about a month or so when you knew it was coming and, presumably, you wouldn’t have to bother going to work anymore at that point. As long as the Internet kept working, that would be a pretty good month.

So, whattya think? Is Harry Reid a racist that ought to resign? In case you hadn’t heard, way back during the Presidential election campaign, Harry apparently said that, since Obama is light-skinned and doesn’t talk like “one of them” (unless he wanted to), being black wasn’t more of a help than a hindrance (he probably could have added that Obama is “clean,” too). So, either he’s an evil racist or he’s VP material. Now, using the word “Negro” is a little old school, I’ll admit (then again, Harry’s a bit old-school himself), but I’m not sure I’d disagree with the argument that, if Obama was black as coal and spoke like Jesse Jackson, he’d never have gotten nominated, let alone elected. In fact, didn’t somebody or other get caught “darkening” Obama’s picture to make him look more evil?

Republicans are, of course, all bent out of shape. I guess Reid just isn’t PC enough. Next thing you know, they’ll be jumping down his throat for not saying “Happy Holidays.”

Speaking of racism and political correctness, a small group of people (the perpetually offended) have their knickers in a knot over Avatar, claiming that it’s yet another example of the White Hero coming in to save the noble, um nine-foot tall blue people. OK. But he’s saving them from the White Devils, so that ought to count for something, no? Plus – and I really hate to point this out, but – it’s a freakin’ movie people. A movie about a planet full of big blue people living in a rain forest getting devastated by humans wanting to rape the planet for its natural resources. The problem isn’t that there’s a white messiah saving the natives on the fictional planet of Pandora – it’s that there aren’t any real messiahs (white or otherwise) out there capable of saving our own planet from the greedy corporations that are killing it.

Oh well, I guess I suppose I’d better get going to work. I just wish there was a way off this hamster wheel (short of global annihilation, that is).