What's your number?

I don't really consider my blog the appropriate place for political commentary. I personally am somewhat passionate about my political views, but that sort of discussion generally warrants back-and-forth discourse, as opposed to my one-sided opinion.

I consider myself a fiscal conservative and a social moderate, whatever that is. I don't fit into a "party" ideology, and frequently find myself turned off by die-hard party-liners. More and more I find myself identifying with the Libertarian point of view, but there are some things the Libertarians stand for that I just could not support, like total privatization of education and the like.

Today, I was driving into work and my radio was tuned to the Glenn Beck program. I've listened to his show before, but I'm not much of a fan. He seems like an alarmist to me. I don't really begrudge him that -- he's got an enormous fan base, so clearly he is tapping into some sentimentality that people are searching for, or at the very least providing some alternative release for people who are fed up with politics in general. I don't know what his appeal is, and don't much care. Even when I agree with him ideologically, I find myself turned off by his delivery and what I consider over-dramatization.

At any rate, while I was listening, Glenn was doing a commercial for one of his sponsors, Select Comfort. Those are the folks that make the Sleep Number bed. You know, the bed where you have a "sleep number", representing firmness of your mattress.

I'm quite familiar with the Sleep Number. I sleep on a Select Comfort Sleep Number bed every night. My sleep number is 45. Basically, your bed comes with a remote, and you can adjust each side of the bed (separately) to whatever firmness you want, ranging from 0 (sinking into a pile of feathers that is resting on a cloud) to 100 (lying on rock that is reinforced with steel).

So, in this commercial, Glenn is explaining the bed and mentions that his sleep number is 100.

That just did me in. I simply can NOT trust someone whose sleep number is 100. Its like sleeping on a slab of concrete. This has to mean that he is a vampire, or an alien. There is no other explanation.


So there you have it folks. Political commentary wrapped up in a sleep number. End of story.


Sleep tight.