Nothing like having a moderately annoying song from your wife's favorite movie and one of your favorite songs of all time stuck in your head simultaneously to get you to realize how random a human brain can be.

Not to say this is a new or recent or particularly shocking revelation.
If I recorded fifteen seconds of the stuff that comes out of my mouth when I'm alone and bored, it would probably be turned into a superweapon for its sheer ability to force individuals to shoot themselves just to release the blood pressure in the brain.

Lately I keep hearing people complain about how this healthcare bill will turn America into a tyrannical state, a socialist state, a communist state, a living hell....etc etc etc.

Just amazes me how ignorant some people can be.
Now I'm not saying I think the healthcare plan is a gift from God, nor am I saying it was culled with a rusty fork soaked in fetus blood through a mound of satan's excrement.
I'm simply saying that "we the people" ALWAYS have a tendency to blow things the government does out of proportion.
...at least, those of "we the people" who actually follow politics.

I'm happy to say I am not among them, mainly because I USED to be a disciple of conservativism to an obscene degree, then a hardcore liberal....and at no point in that time could I ever be HAPPY with anything the government did.
My zeal for keeping "them" out of power or making sure "they" weren't going to "get" me kept me from enjoying so much of life.
So, I keep to my own nest, worrying and concentrating only on what is in my direct control.

But I digress.
Anyone saying the government is out to control every aspect of life needs to brush up on their history.
Never in the 20th or 21st century has the U.S. government reached the depths of corruption and powermongering it reached in 1798, when the Federalist-controlled Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Congress was fighting an undeclared naval war with France (sounds kinda like the war on terror, but at least they were fighting a COUNTRY), and many Republican-Democratic politicians and civilians were protesting the policies and actions of Congress and president John Adams.
SO, the Federalist Congress passed the Acts, to ensure that no word, spoken or written, could be projected criticizing the government.

So before you scream and cry that the government is out to get you (especially anyone who was cheering that the government was "of God" under Bush), READ YOUR FREAKING HISTORY.