Hmmm, I'm trying to make an entry every day. Oddly I can start typing with very little to say and end up writing volumes, or at least many more paragraphs than I expected when I started. I should really apply all this writing energy to my fiction, but I am bad, bad, bad.

So anyway, the entry... you all are thinking, come on lady, get to the good stuff. And I assume you must think that as I have gotten so many more subscribers and comments lately than I ever did when I first started this blog as a simple poetry forum. Shocking! heh

The entry, yeah...

So the other day, everyone got these shrink reduction packets at work. For those not in retail, this is what they call shoplifting and the reduction of merchandise not through sales.

Apparently only ten percent of the population is intrinsically honest, while another ten percent is intrinsically dishonest. The remaining eighty percent will be dishonest given the right circumstances and opportunity.

I found this incredibly depressing. I know I'm in the honest ten percent. What does that say about my family and friends? If you're in the honest top ten, what does that say about your family and friends? One of them must be a skunk ready to backstab you at any moment, and the other eight would betray you given the opportunity, maybe conspiring with the skunk-friend given the right circumstances.

It's enough to make you want to leave the friendly circle of society for the company of coyotes and bears. Least you know they're not duplicitous. They only react according to their nature. If they're hungry or you threaten their young, they eat you.

Honestly, I'd trust animals over people any day. No animal has ever hurt me, neither wild nor domestic, but compared to animals, people are deranged and rabid.

I think the study must be skewed. I can't imagine my mom or granma stealing from anyone. My brother definitely, my sister maybe. The people who conducted the study must have just been more pessimistic than me in regards to human nature.

I hope.

(Heya Joyous, don't take this as an attack even though it was partially inspired by your blog!)

Apologies to those who love Christmas carols, but I just can't take it. And it is not only that I work in retail and must listen to them nearly daily for over a month before the agony is over. I mean, even when I worked in the bank, we had to sit there and listen to the same songs over and over and over and over, ad nauseum. I go home and hear them still, in my head.

No, it's not that I mind listening to holiday music. I love the trans-Siberian orchestra for instance.

It's the fact that so many "Christmas songs" are in fact just that. I know the Christians don't really think about it and many would be insulted to think, ((gasp)) someone doesn't like their holiday music, but I am not Christian and there are a lot of other people out there who are not Christian too. The "Christmas" season, or rather holiday season, is not just about Christian people, you know.

I no more wish to listen to their religious music than they would want to listen to mine, and certainly not for 6-10 hours a day, five days a week, for 30+ days.

I don't mind the instrumental stuff, nor the "twisted" Christmas music (I may be a vegetarian but "I Came Upon a Roadkill Deer" cracks me up everytime), but the saccharine pap that they spoon feed to all the holiday shoppers is driving me out of my mind. Firstly, it is the same songs over and over again. Secondly, it may be geared to be non-insulting and appealing to the lowest common denominator, but despite all that, it is insulting to non-Christians to have pretty much no choice but to listen to Christian music for a month.

Have a heart people. I don't ram my religion down your throats for a solid month. Heck, I don't try to force anyone to believe what I do, so please, keep in mind you're just one religion among many.

I see Christmas carols as one of the worst forms of religious descrimination simply because no one seems to think about it. I could name a half dozen holidays that occur during the same month, many of which are older (sorry it's true). With a little research, I could probably find more. And none of them make you listen to their music for a month.

Either the stores need to start including other denominations in their play list or the insanity needs to stop, period.