It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day.

The problems start even before you're fully awake. There's the fall out of bed that kills 600 Americans each year. There's the early-morning heart attack, which is 40 percent more common than those that strike later in the day.
There's the fatal plunge down the stairs, the bite of sausage that gets lodged in your throat, the tumble on the slippery sidewalk as you leave the house, the high-speed automotive pinball game that is your daily commute.

That was the top story this morning on CNN. It ran all day until a few more bodies in Iraq pushed it to the bottom. After that grew old an in depth story of the world's busiest travel day going by without any problems. What happened to make that the headliner? Nothing. It was just a day of smooth traveling with no terrorists taking over planes, no air rage, no people pulled out of line for a contraband bag of Vitalis and Barbasol, just a day where travelers came home fat from a few days off. Nothing to worry about here...just your typical day...everything's ok...just go about your business.



My father sent me some more right wing propaganda comparing the crime rate and annual murders in California to the body count in Iraq. Here's a surprise- it's higher in California. So why worry about Iraq then? Exactly...

Calm down everyone, nothing to see here...