look before you leap...

2016...a leap year...extra day...now, if this happens to be your birthday...yea!...go you!...unless you're on the other side of 50...then maybe stick with march 1st...but seriously...an extra day of february...ah, that monthly commuter ticket thanks you...an extra day of winter...your dry skin thanks you...but an extra day of campaigning...no one thanks you...well, can't speak for all of you...but for me...i am done...i was really done when it started...and you cannot get away from it...because for the three media seconds that are not spent on the election...you get to hear about kanye's broke ass or another slashing in the big apple...or maybe it'll be winter storm "we didn't catch this one on the radar so you're stuck inside for three fucking days watching the weather channel and candidate debates"...yes, i am done with political promises, non-political assurances and analysis from pompous pundits...i moved to nassau county almost four years ago...with a tax structure that would make ponzi blush...and now this corrupt county had to hire a compliance chief...yes, another salary...for someone to literally oversee and babysit elected officials...oh, don't get me started...it's bottoms up folks...if it stinks at the bottom it rises to the top...ah, leap year...what we all really need is a leap of faith...and not the kind packaged for our consumption at the top...no, just the kind that helps us get out of bed in the morning...to keep trying to fight the good fight...raise our kids to care in a very unforgiving, and uncaring world...and catch them when they forget to look before they leap