Andy Lykens

Please read Erik’s post about American Airlines to get the whole back story to this posting:

So here are some other factors of the story that make it just a little more outlandish and the situation a lot less tolerable:

1) When I gave the name and address and phone number of the hotel to the technologically inept woman operating the archaic computer at the baggage resolution center I didn’t just tell her. I wrote it down on a piece of paper – “Radisson Huntley Hotel” followed by the address, the phone number, and Erik’s phone number (my phone was dead and the charger? With my luggage).

2) When we called around lunch time the second day, the man on the phone actually told me they’d be there by 7pm that night. I was outraged vocally and he went and double-checked. “Oh wait, my mistake,” he said “that was from last night.” Oh I see, so not only did we not get our bags, but you didn’t bother hammer and chiseling it into the monitor of your 1983 “super computer.” Thanks for keeping things updated.

3) The driver in Erik’s story was actually the OWNER of the delivery company and promised to deliver it HIMSELF within the hour, not just send one of his loser-chronies…guess what? Loser-chronie was the one who showed up with the bags.

4) The owner of the delivery company not knowing it was a hotel we were staying at really didn’t bother me (because I knew that it was probably fairly accurate to conjure that Nails McTypesoslow probably didn’t enter the info in properly). What DID bother me was that THEY STILL HAD THE FREAKIN ADDRESS! They should be able to deliver to a hot dog stand if they’re give the exact street address, no?

Alright, now you can truly be outraged.

I think we can all agree that politics are politics. No one really likes them because let’s face it, you can never be 100 percent happy. In fact you’re probably lucky if you eek out with around 45 percent. Yet everyone likes talking about them and the issues raised are sometimes interesting and always controversial.

So since this is my blog and you jerks don’t write it, here is my theory:

Rather than separating the parties into the typical conservative/republican and liberal/democrat ideologies there should be two parties – Rational and Irrational. The rational parties would include moderates from either party and the irrational would include the extremes from both parties.

This way the populace will have a better chance of choosing a president/senator/governer with which the people as a whole would be more happy. Eventually the idea would be that the labels conservative and liberal would peel off and you’d be left with simply the rational and irrational.

I know it would never happen but I think it would be interesting. People of course would still find things to bitch about but the hope would be that they’d agree with, or at least be okay with, more of the decisions made by the administration chosen.

The only real problem with this system would be, of course, that the irrationals would basically never win, which in my opinion would be just fine. I’d much rather have a rational democrat than an irrational republican and of course vice versa.

I think the imposition of the candidates’ values on society would be less of a factor with rational candidates as well. Now depending on your societal views this could also be a drawback – whether you believe the people should be shoved into a new age of thinking or pushed back into unlightenment. Personally I’d be happy with someone who allowed me to choose what’s best for myself and just took care of the big decisions in a rational manner.

That pretty much sums it up. I hope politics wisens up a bit in the near future rather than continually sending us these tangential goons to hammer their fists on tables and preach values or anti-values (depending on whose side you’re on). It’d be nice if the American people were given a break from lunging at each other’s jugular for a while and could say, at the very least, “I disagree, but its not that big of a deal.”

More interesting ideas to come, but they’ll probably be more oriented towards poopy jokes.

I am just testing out this whole blog thing, I can’t imagine I’d type here everyday or even every week. Having such a superfluous amount of something to say would be a curse. At any rate, check back for interesting thoughts…interesting to me anyway.