State of the Union

I'm going to write about the president's State of the Union speech without having actually watched or listened to it. Why didn't I watch it? Well, we don't get tv reception at my house and I haven't really felt like paying for cable or satellite. Also it was family game night at my house with 10 people over for dinner and games. And I just knew that the speech would go something like this, "It's all about 9/11. We're winning the war on terror (9/11). There's nothing wrong with a little domestic spying because 9/11. Things are going great in Iraq, we're winning." And from what I was told last night (my brother-in-law went home after dropping off my sister and niece to watch the speech and then came back) I wasn't far off. And the commentators I heard on NPR (yes, that hotbed of liberal unpatriotic commies) this morning said the speech was pretty formulaic and he didn't say anything new. So, I'm not really sorry I missed it. Last year I called my sister half way through because I was hollering at the tv screen. She was too and I think our husbands might have been a little annoyed with us while they tried to actually listen. That would be the 4th reason for me not to watch this year--watching is bad for my blood pressure!