Web Site Taunts Readers with Vacation Visions

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 4, 2007

It’s time for a real vacation so readers of CynicalSarah.com will have to endure a week of looking at pictures of the tropical paradise I will be visiting.

We’re headed to the Dominican Republic for an all-inclusive resort. That means a week of sun, sand and so much lounging around we may end up too lazy to leave again.

As I am louning on a beach, or snorkeling in the ocean, or swimming with Dolphins, or enjoying all the buffet food I can handle and drinks with little umbrellas, my readers may want to ponder a few things just to keep the cynical quota of the world up to par:

• Instead of focusing on the war in Iraq and getting us out of that mess, the U.S. government is spending a lot of time and energy on banning online gambling and prosecuting the companies involved with it. So they’re more than happy to load you up with a gun and send you off to war, but heaven forbid you play a little online poker at home in your pajamas.
• Valentine’s Day rolled around once again this year and millions of people went out to celebrate their love. A completely commercialized, Hallmark holiday can convince people to do wonderful stuff for each other like dinners out and buying chocolates, but the world can’t come together in peace.
• Hillary Clinton has officially thrown her hat in the ring to run for U.S. President and one of her platforms is to get us out of Iraq and send us to Darfur instead. Can you say “out of the frying pan and into the fire.” Perhaps a better platform would be to stop feeling like we have to be the world police.
• Vancouver revealed its countdown to the Olympics clock this week. A ton of money went into creating a giant sculptural clock and setting up a big presentation for it three years in advance of the Olympics. I wonder how that factored into the ton of money that will be spent just to host an international event that is just continuing to foster competition between countries even though it’s meant to bring them together in friendship.
• American Idol isn’t any meaner than it has been in previous years. Producers are just showing more of the crap parts of the performances because that’s what people want to see. We thrive on the failure and humiliation of others.

Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I can head off to paradise with a load off my mind and be ready for a week of fun. You can bear my cynical burdon for me.

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