Army Post Road

     I'm reading Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World and one of the maxims he covered in the chapter I'm reading at the moment was, to paraphrase, don't fear missing anything.  That is something I struggle with constantly.  I can be quite paralyzed by worrying and stressing over what I may be missing by staying home or attending a function with my family or going to work or what have you.  I don't imagine it does me any good in any physical or mental manifestation to be so worked up by self-doubt, second-guessing, and whatever anxiety that comes with hindsight.  As a matter of self-examination, I wonder a lot about which personal flaws and failings I'm going to outgrow and which ones I'm going to be left struggling with forever.
    I think it's quite a bit of disingenuous irony that Senator Russ Fiengold (D-WI) would suggest that Congress censure President Bush over the NSA domestic spying imbroglio on legal and Constitutional grounds.  Sen. Fiengold himself is the co-author of one of the most unconstitutional bits of legislation of the post-Watergate era, the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act.  That legislation has by far infringed on the Bill of Rights for so many more Americans than the national security measures President Bush authorized ever have and ever will.  The free speech and free expression rights that so many liberals defend so rabidly (when it suits them) are trampled left and right like a running back training camp in Sen Feingold's legislation and he has the gaul to suggest President Bush be formally chastised by the Congress for taking some license with the privacy considerations we're granting to individuals who aren't even physically present in the US.