Low Cost Anger Course

I just saw an ad for a "Low Cost Anger Course," and they promise a "Free Certificate of Completion."

But since I can't click on my own ads, a Google policy, I'll have to use my imagination as to what in the world they're offering.

Maybe -- I'll bet it is -- there are folks who are assigned to take an anger course. And they can actually go online to accomplish it. Maybe it's part of a domestic abuse situation, the resolution of a case. Come to think of it, this hits pretty close to home. Because I actually met someone a couple years ago who told me they had to take an anger course as part of the resolution of a domestic situation.

So how do you take an anger course? It's not like they have a lot of anger courses where I live. I suppose someone who needs to take one might be searching online, find that very ad, and sign up for it. Maybe they'd read an article, answer a few questions, submit their $20 (just guessing), and be able to print out their free certificate. That's quite an idea!

Their website better darned well work, though. Because we're talking about people easily angered. They could beat their computers into submission and then really be in trouble.

McCain Campaign "Schizophrenic"

Washington Post: "One GOP strategist with close ties to McCain's campaign said the new line of attack reflected the operation's "schizophrenic" nature. He said that tendency was also on display last week, as McCain spoke at length about media coverage of Obama rather than sticking with his plan to focus on the economy."

The strategist said, "They couldn't help themselves," adding that McCain's ad about Obama's visit to a hospital was "churlish and unlike McCain, and hardly will resonate with the swing voters who are going to decide this election. They're doing it because the candidate, and the campaign, is not happy with where they are and they're lashing out."

Oh, I don't know know. Angry, abusive old men need love too! Look, McCain's doing just fine. Everyone lay off McCain. Didn't he get pretty good coverage at the Sausage Haus? And his tour of a grocery store seemed to go fine, or at least it would have if all the apple sauce hadn't fallen off the shelf. There's nothing wrong with his campaign.

I might suggest some other activities to keep the old guy busy for the next couple weeks. Maybe a checkers tournament somewhere, schedule that. He could find a factory somewhere where they make shuffleboard equipment and go there. He'd look great in his hardhat, playing shuffleboard with some of the employees after the tour. And to brush up his "common man" bonafides -- for which the grocery store visit was a good start -- maybe let him visit a gas station or a laundromat.

Churlish. That's a good word for McCain.