Mid life crisis?

Hmm .. I always thought that a MLC was supposed to be when I bought a sports car, started hanging out with young girls and partied a lot .. you know.. fun stuff. Recently a friend of mine told me I was going thru a MLC when I was talking to him about thoughts I had watching the President's inauguration speech and then listening to some commentary later that day from some "conservative" talk show hosts.. you know the ones I mean .. Rush, Hannity and Belling (for those of you in SE Wisconsin).

I was appalled by their mean spirited comments. First they, and this also applied to the press coverage in general I thought, spent a lot of time knit picking his phrasing .. I always thought this was sorta like an acceptance speech .. setting the tone for the next 4 years .. a Presidential pep-rally. I thought there should be some flex given here. Then it got bad ... Rush saying he wanted the President to fail .. because he had a different ideology .... Man. Is this what we have become as a country? This petty and partisan? Rush, a guy who claims to have "talent on loan from God" wants the President to fail because I guess that would mean that Obama was right and he was wrong. And by he I mean in general the conservative movement.

This really got me because you see several years ago I would have been listening to him and not having a lot to complain about. I use to listen to these guys all the time. Rush often went a little overboard .. I said to people "he's an entertainer .. he does many things for laughs" ... but this was going way out there. In general I listened to these guys and nodded ... not always in total agreement maybe but I listened.

Or is it me who has changed? Frankly I still listen (once in a while) to these guys .. but now to get angry. I mean I know I'm going to be annoyed but I listen .. and am seldom disappointed. I hear ramblings from mean, evil spirited defeated people who frankly don't like being beat. Dennis Miller said that he did not agree with Obama but "hoped he hit it out of the park" .. because that would mean the US was winning ... that things were working. And isn't that what we should all want? So maybe it is me ... I've gotten old enough to think different ... a little smarter .. dare I say a little wiser? OK .. getting too deep there but anyway

... is this my mid life crisis? Man .. I was really looking forward to the car ..........