letters - I write letters

Every one in a while I get all up on my high horse and decide to write a few letters (or in this case, e-mails) to complain about what I perceive to be the great wrongs of the world.

My first topic for today is the scientology tent at the Wy Co Fair, whose members have repeatedly and somewhat aggressively tried to get T and I to come in to their tent for a "free stress test". I did some reading up on scientology and came up with this and this and a lot more really frightening stuff (some unfortunate "guests" at the Fort Harrison Hotel). So, no, I don't want a stress test thanks. It's not that I don't want the fair to allow them to have a tent, 'cause I believe in free speech and freedom of "religion" but I definitely think it would be nice if they would get that tent off the main drag and ask the cultists to stop using their used-car pressure tactics to drag people in to their purple kool-aid world.

Topic of daily outrage #2: the sextacular overhaul of the Speed Channel by FOX execs who decided that Leann Tweeden was a serious journalist. Not only that, they disguised their two "real" journalists as cupcakes -- all four female personalities are dressed like they're ready for a night of club hopping. In the kind of outfits that would make normal girls like me glare and mutter "skanky ho" under our breath. And don't even get me started on the other stuff they're programming now -- like "Texas Hardtails". Horrible, horrible, horrible. Some loser cussing at his mother. Wow. You know, someone at FOX accidentally came up with a good show: NASCAR:360. But they shoot only 7 or 8 episodes a season. Hey FOX! Stop wasting your money on Texas Hardtails and NASCAR Nation and just give us a full 36 eps of NASCAR:360, idiotas! (There's my obligitory Spanish for the day, since I'm trying to brush up and all).

Topic #3: Why does every neighborhood in KC have a nicer grocery store than mine? When I had to provide fresh fruit and pastries for breakfast two weeks ago I had to drive 10 miles to the next closest Price Chopper to get something I could trust as fresh. No one seems to believe that people in Wy Co want or deserve anything decent. I mean, this is a county that until 5 years ago had zero services -- unless you shopped exclusively at thrift, dollar and liquor stores. Well, now that I think about it, perhaps all the bases were covered. Now we have a multi-million dollar state of the art racing facility, hotels, restaurants and retail only 5 miles away... but still two of the crappiest grocery stores in existence. Is it too much to ask to have a grocery store checker tell me my total, use the words please and/or thank you and possibly look me in the face? Or have a store that has a decent bakery, deli and maybe even some prepared foods that don't look crusty?

Whatever. Three e-mails and one blog later I feel therapuetically cleansed. I encourage all of you to write one e-mail or letter to someone who has done something stupid to you or near you. You'll feel better too.