When I was younger I used to say that the only time I would ever run was if someone was chasing me. Well it turns out someone has been. Its father time; and he’s starting to gain some ground. As I approach the big 5 - 0, I find I need to pick up the pace a little if I expect to keep my distance ahead of him.
The good news is, my doctor tells me that I’m not only in perfect health, but I have the best cholesterol numbers he’s ever seen in someone my age. (He's a reader of this blog so I can't lie about it) I’m still on the thin side, and I have all my hair, or at least enough so that I can fake it. And people still react to my true age by saying “Get out! You look X years younger than that!” So in the interest of keeping it that way I've started running 16 miles a week, at roughly 10 minutes per mile. Not exactly a record breaking pace, but enough to make up the difference in my metabolism between age 35 and 50.
Anyway, the upshot of all this is, I’ve been trolling around itunes filling my phone with some music to listen to while I run. And in the process, I stumbled across a well known but little played gem.
Bob Seger (His 1970's "Jesus of Saginaw" look notwithstanding) is an American institution – a midwestern Elvis of his age. And I think this song is perfect for all those guys who are currently enjoying the top down policies of the Obama administration. We on the right talk about those people sometimes as if they are the problem, but they aren’t. The vast majority of them would rather have a job than a handout – no matter what the Obama administration says.
Given the choice, they’d rather be treated like men. And they can’t be happy that the Obama administration refuses to give them that choice.
So this one is for you guys.
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