Ok- it's not really a diary about The Wire- it's a diary about how depressed I am The Wire is almost over.

I was just wondering if anyone else tried to watch episode sixty last night on HBO On Demand and was disappointed to find we have to wait until next Sunday night to watch it.  Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

I'm kind of happy in a weird way- I don't want it to be over, and once I watch the last episode, it will be over.

I didn't really say that.  I said "my son has a vagina and James Dobson can kiss my fat ass."  OK- I didn't say that either. I don't think it's true, and it seemed argumentative.

Anyway, I was at Open Gym, which is a great program in my town- for $30 you get five months of indoor play in the gym at the local recreation center, and the kids run around and ride tricycles and drive little play cars and fire trucks and throw themselves around on gym mats and it's a blast.  Yesterday I ran into a mom whose kids I watch each week while she's at bible study, and she pointed out to me that my daughter is a bit of a tomboy.  And she said she was too, but she grew out of it.

Then I shared how my daughter (who's four and a half) refuses to wear girls underpants, so I let her wear boys underpants.  I said there's nothing I can do.  She said "Oh yes there is- talk to your pediatrician!  Take her to a child psychologist!  And have you read James Dobson?"

Hello cruel world.

For my first diary on Kos I'm sharing the story of the donation of five Tasers to Ridgefield, Connecticut's police department.  

Years ago I used to live in a bad neighborhood in Lynn, MA.  How bad, you ask?  They used to film the tv show COPS on my street.  When people asked me where I lived, I'd say Kingsley Terrace.  They'd laugh and say "you don't live in Kingsley Terrace- you live on corner five."

Anyway, now I live in Ridgefield, the # 1 town in Connecticut.  I feel like I'm walking around in a Norman Rockwell painting.

Does the town with the lowest crime rate in the state really need five Tasers for its police department?  And after the Board of Selectmen voted down the request for Tazers, should the police be able to go out and buy them anyway?