Step Away From the Oven

My wonderful friend Briana Brough invented the best word on a Facebook post today.  The word is “Anger-bake”, which is the act of baking something yummy and fattening in response to something stupid.  In Bri’s case it was the whole sequester and why the republicans can’t make a deal with the President that was giving her fits, but “Anger-baking” can certainly come about because of so many things that make us crazy.

What Bri did not disclose was whether her “anger-baking” was going to be followed up with “pissed-off-eating” and then “despondent-self-loathing.”  It is bad enough that we have actual personal relationships that can push our need for baked goods buttons, but when every act or in this case non-act of our elected officials is driving us to the chocolate chip aisle what are we to do?

Do you think that all the politicians got together and said, “people are living too long for our social security system.  Let’s drive everybody to an early grave by making them so crazy they eat themselves to death.”  Cutting ten to twenty years off the current lifespan certainly would solve some of the budget crisis.  It is practically the only excuse I can think of for they way both sides of the aisle are acting.

In my case I am going to have to go with the ostrich plan and not watch any TV news, read any newspapers or news websites or listen to NPR.  All those media outlets could lead me to anger-bake too and I just can’t afford to have even an individual size cheesecake around.

I wish I could say that the answer is to get involved and help solve the problem, but even ever optimistic me is worried that there is little help for Washington.  I did hear one reporter ask the President if he could just lock Congress in until they came up with a solution and he said he was just the President, not a dictator, but that pressure from the American people is all that will work.  I’m afraid there is just not enough pressure in the world, but maybe we can send all our congress people all our doubly fattening anger-baked goods and kill them off with butter, sugar and flour.