In no particular order, and because I really don't feel like spamming Twitter with all of this today.

So....the Tampa Bay Devil (fuck all that dropping the Devil business...they only did that to try and get the religious freaks into the stands) Rays beat the Boston Red Sox tonight 9-1 in a playoff game.  Let me state right here and now that I do not give a damn about baseball.  At all.  I think it's a mind-numbingly boring game, and the only time I willingly go to a baseball game is when my son is in it (and even then I get bitchy about it).  If it weren't for the fact that Tampa Bay was in the playoffs I wouldn't even be aware that the playoffs were going on.

I just don't care.  Really.

But...

I'm gonna wax poetic for a bit about the economy, so if you're sick to death of hearing about it please feel free to move along.  I've just had some thoughts stuck in my head in the last few days and I wanted to get them out.

The following is the text of an email I just sent out to my local Family members.  Figured I'd cross post it here to broaden the audience (although the personal appeal at the end will have less of an impact).