Who Says This Site is Negative?

Recently, some of the faithful Sauerkraut readers …o.k. one person…has accused this site of being too much about 'gloom and doom'…o.k., actually the person accused me. Needless to say, not all is wrong with the world, but there are a lot of things that are very wrong that don't get as much as attention by the mainstream media as they should. That's the purpose for many of the postings/articles-of-drivel on this site; trying to give other sides of a story. Looking back at previous postings over the first five months of this blog, things have taken on a more negative tone of late, or at a minimum, they aren't as comedic as they once were. That being said, I implore you to read about our fine friends down south. As they say, "getting' lucky in Kentucky".
Somewhere, Laura Ingals and the cast of Little House on the Prairie is smiling.

LONDON, Ky. - A Kentucky judge has been offering some drug and alcohol offenders the option of attending worship services instead of going to jail or rehab — a practice some say violates the separation of church and state. District Judge Michael Caperton, 50, a devout Christian, said his goal is to "help people and their families." "I don't think there's a church-state issue, because it's not mandatory and I say worship services instead of church," he said. Alternative sentencing is popular across the country — ordering vandals to repaint a graffiti-covered wall, for example. But legal experts said they didn't know of any other judges who give the option of attending church. Caperton has offered the option about 50 times to repeat drug and alcohol offenders. It is unclear what effect the sentence has had.

You say "worship service", I say "church". You say "artful punishment", I say "freak".

On another more positive music note, the new Coldplay CD "X&Y" was available for a 24 hour period to preview on-line, and may I say, after one listening, it's tremendous. Coldplay is about to become the new U2 from a popularity standpoint. If you happened to see them at a theater-type of venue on their last tour, be glad. It's not going to happen again for another 10-15 years. And…for the record…if new albums were food stores, the new Coldplay would be New World Market, and the new Oasis would be Aldi's.