Perspectives: Sam’s Perspective – Sleep

I’m Sam Jones.

Sometimes when I go to bed late at night, my brain is still on fast forward and sleep just won’t come. As is usually the case, one of those mental suitcases I carry around will spring open and out pops a number of things, usually something dumb and the distance between me and a good night’s sleep widens. On occasion, chain reaction thoughts where one thing leads to another, insures that the brain is wide awake and ready to play while the rest of me moans and tries for much needed rest that’s just out of reach.

It happened a few nights ago and this time, and the dvd playing loudly had to do with dumb things seemingly intelligent people say that can cause one to smile in the dark like a newborn that’s just utilized a fresh diaper. As I said earlier, the process is usually chain reaction where one thought leads to another. This time the subject seemed to be candidates lined up telling us why they should be President.

Right off the top the picture that came to mind was that bumper car ride at the fair. Car number one,… Donald Trump! His voice but Henny Youngman’s face. Trump? Really? That some folks see him as a wonderful candidate is to me a scene right out of a Freddy Krueger movie.

Then comes Ted Cruz and Chris Cristie and the other contestants, as the Donald likes to call them. Lots of humor there.

Others in my suitcase aren’t running for President but they are on the dole, so to speak. Our senior senator for example, Jim Inhofe. Who could forget when he called the President of the United States an idiot. Or what about the time the propeller fell off of his plane and the senator called for a full blown investigation that in the end yielded nothing but wasted time and money.

I think many of us enjoyed the snowball he brought to the floor of the senate to, as he said, prove his position on global warming. If you go back a few years you’ll remember the time he referred to the late actor Carlton Heston as “My good friend Carlton Heston”. And recently he said he doesn’t think President Obama is a Christian. Included in his evidence is the fact that the president doesn’t get along well with the prime minister of Israel. Incidently, I’m sure he must know that Prime Minister Netanyahu isn’t a Christian. I mean, he would know that, wouldn’t he? Yep,… He never lets us down.

But it’s not just the Donald or Senator Inhofe or Ted Cruz or Chris Christie. All of our political news makers have, at one time or another stepped on their neckties. It goes with the territory,… I think.

So, the other night when I couldn’t sleep, I remembered,… they are human. And as such they all provide unintentional humor on a regular basis. Once I remembered that fact, the brain started to slow down and finally sleep came,… with a smile.

That’s my perspective.