I loved Legos when I was a kid.

If I had a pile of Legos in front of me now, I would play with them.

What is this? Lab Partner Lego girl? Is this offensive toy giving girls the false hope that they can be good at science?

Legos don’t usually make then news, but they did this week. Lego released a new line of toys for girls. And guess what! Despite all of Lego’s market research indicating demand for this product, some cranky women find the toys “offensive.” Apparently, girls can now suffer from low self esteem and poor body image from Legos.

To be honest, I don’t think the girl Legos are nearly offensively enough.

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If you’ve had any media exposure over the last 48 hours, you already know…

…and already don’t care…

but Beyonce and Jay-Z had a baby…or something.

I know, I know, it’s big news when two people who are so important make a mini-version of themselves.  But after the news of the hospital ward where the delivery was made, and the baby’s…name, the news on my radio was about the cash the couple spent to outfit the nursery.

So the happy couple has a $20,000 crib, a solid gold rocking horse, and one baby who doesn’t give a crap.  Well, it does give a crap, but not about the crib or the horse.  And you know what?  Even $20,000 cribs get crapped on.  No one can have nice things when a kid is involved.

I’ve got a question for all you really, really, ridiculously wealthy people out there who read my blog.  I know, there’s a lot of you, because that’s how really rich people start their days – by reading my blog.  The rest of you, don’t worry, you can participate too.

Here’s my question for all the rich people out there…

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It’s no secret, I am pretty awesome at a lot of things.

I like to think of it as part of being a well-rounded person.  It’s important to be awesome at as many things as possible.

But, of all the things I have mastered, there is one skill I still lack, much to my dismay:

Confronting people in public.

We’ve all been there, in a place where someone is being a major tool in public.  Some self-absorbed idiot is talking loudly on her phone on the bus, or there’s a drunk guy at the movies.  They make everyone angry.  But there are very few, proud, honorable warriors for common decency who will take a stand and bawl out these people in front of everyone.

Today, I salute you, people who aren’t afraid to say what everyone is thinking.  You are too often taken for granted and I hope I can grow up to be like you.  Here are just a few heroic stories of your valiant exploits.

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Here we go, two of the most unique “resolutions” for 2012.

Because they happened while we were all still in our Christmas stupor, you may have missed these two ironically intertwined stories, people who have strangely opposite New Year’s resolutions.

On the one side, you have California, always a place for progressive “improvement.”  Along with a new state law requiring a prescription for NyQuil, public school students can now look forward to learning state mandated “gay history.”

Meanwhile, over in Tennessee, a private Christian school just might be catching more flack than the Kentucky church that banned (and quickly un-banned) interracial couples last month…by banning any mention of homosexuality.

The funny thing is both California and the Christians have it wrong.  So, so wrong.

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What makes a day in your life?

If you didn’t catch Ridley Scott’s Life in a Day when it was released, it’s now on Netflix.  It’s that movie made of hundreds of home movies from all over the world, clipped together, to make a complete picture of human life in one day.  People sleep, go about their morning routines, play with their kids, go to work, worship and pray, have dinner with family, and all the other imaginable human activities.

It’s kind of a remarkable movie, if only because it’s a film made of a bunch of smaller films that no one would ever want to watch.

But it also made me think.  What does a day in my life look like?  What about yours?

And more importantly is this: Christians boast that Jesus is the most important part of our lives.  But is he this most important part of our days?

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It’s pretty well impossible to deny it.

Steve Jobs personally affected my life, and yours.  I’m pretty sure they’re going to change the calendar from A.D. to A.S., or After Steve.  Postmodern society will now give way to post-steveism.

I check my blogs on my iPhone (which I finally purchased in July.)  But he didn’t just change how a few people read blogs or listen to music.  The man changed entire industries.  If he were living a century ago, he’d have built a steel or oil conglomerate.

So, like millions of other people, I thought I might like to read about the man behind the machines.  I downloaded the sample of the Walter Isaacson bio, ironically, on my Kindle.

And after a couple of hours, I’m not so sure I want to spend 700 pages with the man.  I mean, really.  From the time he was a third grader, the guy was a jerk.  I’m not going to rehash what most of us have already heard tidbits of.  But he was not a people person, and he was enabled from the earliest age by his parents to develop a superiority complex and mistreat everyone, including his parents, children and employees.  And what kind of a guy hires his own biographer?

It just makes me wonder.  If I was a genius, what could I get away with?

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