Hey, Baby!
Most of you know me or at least think you do. I am here to
dispel the lies, truths, and misunderstandings. So put your seatbelt on, you're
going for a ride! I was born a poor black child on the other side of the .... hold
on .... sorry wrong kid. (Steve Martin - "The Jerk"). I was born Grantly (a.k.a. Captain Skanky ) April 1966 in Ky. hair color: brown, eye color: blue, Sex: yes, please... I am - oh shit - 41; and very happy to be this age. I
have waited 30+ years for this moment in my life. I can do anything. Matter of
fact, Mom, I am spoiling my dinner by eating a candy bar at this moment! The
only things holding me back, a little, are a couple of stupid government laws. Other than that life is bliss!
Married... I never thought that I would ever
want to get married ...Well, once I did but the catholic church didn't agree with
me (or did cardinal O'Connor - I have to say here, he gave wonderful advice). Any how, I married Christy. We were going to fake
it. We had been living together for a couple of years and we knew
we would always be together. We were going to get a friend of ours to scan and
email (yes, we had email that long ago) us her wedding certificate. Then we
were going to change the names, print it out, get one of those gold leaf seals,
and live happily ever after! This would have satisfied the parents and
grandparents. This is were the parental gene kicked in. We were going to go hang
gliding in the NC mountains and come back "married". Well, we think Dean was on
to us. He wanted to meet us up there. So we got out a map shut our eyes and
pointed on the map - it ended up being Cape Fear river area - so we went. In the
process of driving down there we got into the "act of it". It was like a
scavenger hunt: licenses, forms, and rings. The rings we purchased from a
grocery store bubble-gum machine...What class! We went to Southport, NC and met
up with an ordained minister/realtor (is that an oxymoron?) and was married on top of a lighthouse. Our thought
was, and still is, that we had never been married so lets do it. The thought is
also we never have been divorced so we might do that in the future. I just think
it would sound cool... "I'm living with my ol' ex lady"! I have to add here that I am in total support of Gay,
Str8, Bi, Poly, etc... marriage. Any marriage between any two or more consenting adults should be the business of the
people involved and their god (if they have one). I really don't think that it
should be up to the government officials to say who I can marry.
I wish the "Land of the Free" government would get the hell out of my bedroom.
... Kafka's Castle.
 All work  and no play  makes
us all very dull!
Kids... No ... Later? Maybe, but we will (have to) - your
welcome Christy - adopt. We love kids but our choice of lifestyle prevents
us having children. We love other peoples children. We take them out for pizza,
then fill them full of sugar, go to the toy store, give them money and take
them home. I guess we found a way to by-pass parenthood and became
"grandparents". As far as kids in general, love 'em! It is the parents that we
have problems with sometimes. Kids will be, and should be, "kids", having fun! My latest observation... Four kids running up and down the hotel hallway
at 6am on a Saturday is not appropriate behavior for kids, or adults. Then at
6:30 am the 4 kids and their "responsible adult" parents stand outside our door discussing their breakfast options (cow or pig). The kids are still running
around the halls. The "parents" yelling at them to behave. Wow! I wonder how those kids are going to be like when
they "grow up"? Flip the coin over and you have parents that "bark" at their kids for being
hyper/excited for going to the circus! We worry more about parents than their
offspring! Sounds like Hendrie's story at Disneyland. Another comment... If you can't afford kids, Don't Fuck!
Really. No shit. Stop Now... From the most of the religious books that I have read the
followers are not to fuck for fun (I, of course, can... and I, of course, have
been responsible for the last - oh shit - 40+ years in keeping with my choice -
there is that damn word again - of having no
children). So if you fuck, plan on supporting
yourself and your offspring. I am tired of my taxes going to people who can't,
no wait, DON'T want to plan ( there is that word, too) ahead. I do not mind helping people whose own god has
refused to help... I am not a total ass... I believe people that do their best
and hit brick walls in their life, might need a little mental, physical, or
monetary help. It just seems to me more and more lazy-ass people are not too
lazy to breed. It is not the kids fault... It is the fault of the ignorant
"adult". And
one more thing that most of us have thought about, but never talk about... If your
marriage is not "working" don't, for one god-damn minute, think that pumping out
a kid will fix your inability to have a logical conversation with your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend
(i.e. keep your marriage together).
Think! And if you don't know how to Think, LEARN!
An
American Party!
It's not a crack house, it's a crack home... I have lived in, rented (for 4 months), or owned over ten houses
in - oh shit - 40+ years (and a butt-load of tents). I don't have a favorite, but I can tell
you that I do not like humidity. Christy and I had a kick ass condo on
the beach near Wilmington, NC. Just about every morning porpoises (porpi?) would
swim pass the condo. The humidity was unbearable. We are now parked in our home
in CB for the next 10 years or so.
It's my nature... Let's see... Where
to begin... I have been bisexual for - oh shit - 40+ yrs (or so). I have been honest with myself since I was about 12 years old. I have
been honest with others for the last 20 years.
And now I guess I'm being honest with the whole World. I don't try to steer
conversations so I can tell people about myself - in that way (unless I just feel
"flaming" that day!). I feel that we all might be a little bi. It's like a volume
knob, some are gay, others are str8, and I'm in the middle. It's just whether people want to acknowledge their
"knob" (ha!). My knob is at 12, noon (50/50). I'm sitting on a
fence and the view's are great! I guess I don't think it's hard to express
myself since my mother-in-law "knows" me... That conversation was fun,
really! Now you know what the little triangles are.
The church (catholic) denied
the Copernican theory until 1922. In 1984 a papal commission acknowledged that
the church was wrong about Galileo. But it did not reverse the condemnation of
the genius of science until 1992. 350 yrs after his death. Damn that's a long
time!
French Party (with one American)!
Rolling Stone: Hunter on Nixon
And now for something
completely different
Thank you... My Grandmother and ...Christy, babe, after 15 short years, I
love you more than ever! Thanks for putting up with me and those
freaky ideas I keep coming up with (hey, the last two were yours). You know I love you... I'm proving my love
by walking into a Wal-mart with you now...Enough said, (When I start thinking of
you I get a funny feeling in my... tummy). While I'm thinking of it, thanks goes
out to Christy's ex... Thanks for screwing up!
Dali Lama...
And... I have to say thanks to Perry for gamblin' on my
teaching abilities. Who said you have to go to Vegas to gamble? And the bribe
money he sent to Jim at C.F. to let me teach there. I just wish all of my former teachers were
there to witness... no, wait, I wish they where sitting in those little chairs
in front of me, praying that I don't spring a surprise test on them on a Monday
morning... Thank you Jim - I'll never forget you!
Goat man!
Brian and Sherrie... I am the reason they take Prozac
(great Prozac is in my spell checker). Thanks guys for putting up with me and
uhh, my uhh, nutty ideas. And ditto back at ya! I think that I have finally realized that
there can only be one Dr. H.S. Thompson, John Holmes (yeah, right!), and
Liberace.
Let alone, those three rolled into one...Thank god! Christy says I'm more like
Homer and Raymond (whom everybody seems to love).
Da Doctor is in da
house...
The Reverend G - Doctor of Divinity- Universal Philosopher of Absolute Reality
Pardon the interruption, I shall continue
...
Jonathan Winters...
L.S. and C.S. (witness protection) Thanks for keeping in
touch with us throughout the years. You probably don't realize (after seeing our
web site you do) how nice it is to hear from you two. We look up to you guys.
You two helped us with a butt-load of decisions that turned out to be great!
Except Lucent...Hehe, just kidding! Stay Kwel
Joseph Campbell...
Shawn and Shela (Island Gazette)...Thanks for
letting me write. It was fun! Now I can't stop... I might need to go to Writers
Anonymous. I wonder, is there an Anonymous Anonymous? Our we really Anonymous? Who am I?
Nelson Mandela...
Bob R... Thanks for everything! Real Estate,
Landscaping, Singing, Quantum Physics. Is there anything you can't do?
Oprah (hell ya!)
Liberace and his boy-toy, Sassy
The famous Ekrem family... Well, they are still talking
about the man who got us the Austin Powers cardboard cut-out. Thanks for putting up
with all my shenanigans! And thanks for keeping in touch!
Jimmy Carter...
Charles (and his Mommy)... Thanks for the fun. We don't
get to see enough of ya. Are you coming back to finish the house? Is Lucille
coming? ... SUPERFECTA!
Mother Theresa
Linda H... For almost 20 years (damn!) you have been crunching my
numbers... Sounds kinda kinky... Thanks for making April 15 so much fun, really!
I am probably the only person in the U.S. that has all their receipts stack,
organized, labeled, and ready to go on January 1st - just waiting for the W-2's,
1099's, and any other government red tape! Thanks! And please don't retire!
Flip Wilson...
Kurt... Your dead. You fucked up... Thanks
for everything - I'll never forget you. When I knew you, I loved you.
Don Rickles...
And everyone else in the family and friends pile that had to
put up with me and my shit. There I said it. Now the shrink will see that I am
able to be let out. Free - I say, Free at last!
Nipsy Russell...
Oddity... There are at least
18 different ways to tap a telephone and no, not all of them make any noise!
People I do not respect... People that lie to themselves as well as others, blind followers,
people that don't realize that their life will not be a "do over" (this
is it, it's never to late to deal with it and Live). Go take a pottery
class...something...anything. Religious, Corporate, and Government
leaders with an agenda of hate, dishonesty, and greed.
Oddity... Some 3.7 million
Americans claim to have been abducted by aliens. Most found it a positive
experience.
Favorite Books... The best book
in all the land is... Oh, The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss ... Then we have: The Hero
with a Thousand Faces, Cosmos, The Faces of Eden, How to Think Like Leonardo da
Vinci (thx Stacy and Gary!), DSM VI, anything from Stephen
Hawking, Last Breath by Peter Stark (excellent!), Measuring Eternity (very
good), Galileo's Daughter, Fast Food Nation (excellent!). The "God" Part of the
Brain (the last chapter put it all in perspective!), Unspoken Desires (this is a
"couple" read along! mmmm, couples...), Thoreau's - Civil Disobedience, Me Talk
Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, Don Quixote (translated by Jarvis). Corn-Pone
Opinions by Mark Twain (a must read! - NOW!), 1984 (another must read -
NOW!), Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (O.K. ... NOW!). The Complete Works of Kafka, and Gogol's
Wife and Other Stories. Crime and Punishment and some Kafka together resulted in me having a broken toe from kicking a
4 foot tall lizard in a wonderfully exciting dream - some would call it a
nightmare. It is amazing what you can learn when you are not bombarded
with TV! Recently I have just finished: The World Is Flat (and, yes,
READ NOW!). And if you don't want to read it, buy The World is Flat and give it
to anyone under the age of 40. They will need it soon. Also, you might want to
give them a couple of bucks to start college, or move to - lets say - India or
China.
Oddity... There are over
1,100 hazardous waste sites in the U.S.. New Jersey has more than any other
state.
Favorite Music... All music... It ranges from
Disturbed (loud shit!) to Allison Krause (bluegrass - folk). Willie Nelson to
Bessie Smith. Jackson Browne to Reggae to "big Mama" Thornton, John Prine, NKC.
I love music. We had about 750 c.d.'s that we have
slowly turned into MP3 files. From my personal experience, people need to expand
their interests. What a great feeling I get when I am listening to Classical 12
string guitar and the next song is Ernie Ford "Sixteen Tons" then "I love the
Dead" then "Orange Blossom Special" then ...? XM radio - We have satellite radio and it is sweet! We
are listening to Money Talk with Bob Brinker, oops now the XMPR channel, never
mind, we are on the 70's channel. Damn that's cool! Well the music conglomerates lost the ruling... they
have been formally found guilty of price fixing for the last 10 years or so.
Really? No shit? My head has been buried in the sand for the last 30 years and I
am too gullible to think such things could happen in the good ol' U.S. of A (you
do realize that I am being facetious)... 750 c.d.'s at 13 a pop, I want my
refund, now!!! All I get is 5 bucks??? Gee, I wonder why P2P is doing sooo
damn good...
Oddity... People forget up to
80% of what they learn within 24 hours. So come back everyday to our web site!
Favorite TV Shows... We
haven't owned a TV in 5 years or so. "Must see TV" can kiss my well-read ass. Update: We bought a big ass TV and ordered all the cable channels known to the human race. Update: We still have the big ass TV, but have gone back to reading more.
Oddity... About 65% of new
marriages will end in either divorce or separation.
Favorite Movies... Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction,
Dusk 'til Dawn (red ones, yellow ones...), any Monty Python (should be
considered a religion) movie, Blazing Saddles,
Dead Man, Best in Show (the only time that I had to run out of a movie theater
because I couldn't stop laughing), just about any movie with Gregory Peck, the first Mr. Deeds, ... Johnny Depp (mmmm, Johnny Depp), Dumb and Dumber
(did you expect anything less?). Any and all kinds of documentaries (i.e.
Trekies, People of the forest, P.O.V.). And Recently: Capote (damn fucking good
acting).
Favorite Things to Do... Sex (a.k.a.- making sweet love), hike, read, think, eat strawberries, dream (lucid, if
possible), build, philosophize, open and honest conversation with open and
honest people! ... Move (E=mc2 ... energy = mass x
speed of light, squared... I got the mass).
Oddity... By the year 2010,
each person is expected to generate 1,774 pounds of of solid waste per year.
Drugs... Done
(past tense) 'em...
weed, A, coke, 'shrooms (I can't
believe my spell checker doesn't recognize 'shrooms!). Don't forget the
deadliest two drugs of all: alcohol and cigarettes ... You got to live a
little, though; hanging around the apartment sucking on a 4 foot tall bong
(sorry, water pipe) talking to
your friends about "how cooool it would be to be invisible" ... is, well,
damn ... you are invisible!
I am lucky not to have been born with the addiction gene or
for that matter in
Sierra Leon (I would like to mention here that I am very glad that James is no
longer there). Well, OK, I love chocolate and lovin's. It kinda ticks me off that
just because some people are either genetically prone to addiction, or they suck
at living, that I can't smoke a joint in my own home with no kids around and not
having to go back to work for another week.
Suggestion: If you find yourself throwing up over a
toilet in Macy's on a Thursday evening with your grandkid in-tow because
you tied one on the other night with "Mad Dog 20/20" - 2006 ( I heard it was a
great year), you got a fucking problem. And now your
grandkid will probably have a fucking problem that society will have to "deal
with". You know, hemophiliacs shouldn't work at a
Gin Su (sp?) knife factory and you shouldn't be drinking alcohol. You know if your addicted
to the shit. Your denial is my problem and I am damn tired
of it. Just because you
suck at life, the rest of us should not be denied a weed that their god planted
or anything else that seems like it would be fun! Asshole!... If you need a
babysitter send me some cash! I really don't mind helping people who ask
for it or even need it without the asking part. We should all pitch in and help.
But you've got to help yourself first, give us a hand here! There are people on
this planet that really need help...So get off the coach, back to
work, and out of the way!
The black market in: world currencies,
underground labs, funding crime and terrorists... Must of us know what's going
on. If the drug problem in the U.S. is due to addicts it will not go away. It seems to me that after 70+ (yes, 70+)
years of fighting the "war on drugs" (and you thought Vietnam was long) it is
not working and we need to start thinking and speaking rationally. There are
some good ideas out there. Some I agree with, others I don't. Talk! Vote! Write!
Learn! Hey, when it comes down to it I shouldn't care. I don't have
kids and I don't believe in god or the spirit world or momma earth, Gaia (sp?). It's my mind that deduces that something needs
to change, for the better... It can always be better than it is, even if it
is great now. Hey if we fixed the nations drug problem then we could
go on to something else, say poverty, education (education could fix just about everything,
if taught without bias), toxic waste... I really think
that most of us in this world can work quickly and efficiently to resolve all of
the major problems on our planet. It's time we did it. Update: Fuck it, I'm tired.
Damn, I can ramble on... and no, I'm not
tokin' up!
Oddity... Decoraphobia: the
fear of interior designing. Heortophobia: the fear of holidays. Genuphobia: the
fear of knees. Phobphobia: yeap! the fear of fear itself.
Religion... No thanks. I believe in no god or
supreme being. I only believe in reincarnation to the extent that I will die, my
body will rot, and eventually my atoms will float away. Ashes to ashes, dust to
dust. The earth does move around the sun, and ringing church bells do not
"scare away lightning". Don't be the horse with blinders, wise-up. By
the way, why does the Vatican have lightning rods?
No god, supreme being, etc...This thought to some people is an easy "way out"
for me. I have nothing
to pray to. I make mistakes, I have to learn from them and do better. There is
not a yellow (Gold, if you work for T.B.N.- I really thought that after the
Bakers' PTL "club", people would wise-up) brick road at the end of my rainbow.
This is it. I have to work extremely hard to do good. But I do. (wow! If there
happens to be a god, I've done it without being "threaten" to do good). I
don't waste my life thinking that when I die I will be in a beautiful heaven
with everything I should ever need - like a VW full of virgins. If, again, there is a god, the gift of life is the
greatest show of love a god could give... don't piss god off and waste it.
Boo!
(Maybe the New Mexicans should blame their
drunk driving on the over abundance ofdeaths on hwy 666 instead of changing the
name. Are they that delusional?) uh oh, Ebenezer Baptist
Church in Ivor, VA is now on the devils highway 616
My thoughts are ever changing with newer information I receive.
When I learn of the history of religion I am appalled. I believe religion is
just another stepping stone in the evolution process of human thought (no, there
are no such things as dragons). One day we will no longer need the crutch of
religion to make us do "good". I believe we have this capability of honest thought, now! One problem is most people can't fathom the thought of being
alone in the middle of space. Come to think of it I am somewhat glad that some
people have their religion to keep them grounded. If they didn't have their
crutch they might think it was a "free for all". There are two new revelations for me: The
first, anesthesia. When I went under for minor surgery I found
that I had missed a couple of hours of my life. Now, I'm not a total idiot. I
know I was in blissful "sleep". But it was very deep and without dreams (and no, I
didn't float out of my body and hover around the room). If you want to
experience what I believe is death, then that is it. A blissful deep sleep with
no dreams and no waking; just as it was before you were born.
The second is the realization that we are, and yes, some say
might be,
biologically engineered with the belief of a supreme being, god, in our brain.
Whether it was "created" by evolution for humans to deal with the anxiety of death
or because our spouse doesn't listen to us all the time and we need someone to
listen to us ramble on and on, and on, :-) ! We have created god.
God did not create us. I have one last thought: For most of you,
your religion was taught to you from your parents or grandparents.... Read!
Learn! Decide for yourself what is good for you. If
you want a religion - great, go for it and live it. Every word of it. What
version or translation you want to read and accept is up to you and only you. If
you do decide that a particular religion is right for you embrace it with your
life. But never, really never, stop learning about your religion and subjects
outside of it. Change is good. Change is needed. Just because science says there
was a "big bang" or evolution, doesn't mean god didn't start it all. It also
doesn't mean that science is wrong. I also have to add that if you really
believe in a particular religion you should learn who wrote it and when, and
where they received their information about it. Basically when you learn the
history of your religion you might be shocked. I mean, come on, you research
colleges, or how to work on a transmission, or even where to take your vacation,
so why the hell do people refuse to learn as much about their religion as
humanly possible? Fear.
Best damn SNL ever.
I feel at this point that I have to keep
the above paragraph, for now. My personal journey in my quest for the truth has
come to realize that religion was needed early in human history, as was a god or
gods. Today the need for religion has expired beyond its usefulness. More than
any time in the past, today we can see this Religion Problem as a
threat to human existence. It was a different time when we threatened our
neighbors with sticks, stones, guns, and knifes over the fact that their
ideology was wrong and ours was "right" (some tribe's ideologies are
"far-right"). The time has come to wean ourselves from
our old religious thoughts. It is hard for some of us to realize that we are
alone, we were wrong, and begin to deal with our new thoughts. Just as hard, I
imagine, as it was for the Greeks and Romans to shun their old Gods and
Goddess's and go with just a single head honcho. It is possible to be
moral without religion or a god. Not to mention, religion has and is killing
more humans than any other act, natural or man made, in the history of the world.
I am asking for the ultimate in self sacrifice, your ideology and your god that was handed down to you from generation to generation as well as
instilled in you biologically for self preservation. As a result of my writings
there are religious people that will read this with hate in their
"souls". If they are right, and their god does exsist and I am
going to their hell, then why are they mad? I can deal with it...
The problem is that they can deal with it, but they refuse.
In the middle of politics &
religion.
Politics... Written after 9/11 and before we invaded a sovereign country, known as Iraq. Are you pissed off that the U.S.A. was
attacked? I believe, in some ways, our government has screwed up, now and in the
past, and will unfortunately do so in the future. We import more and more oil. We are dependent! But so
are they! When you leave a room, turn off the lights. Wrap your water heater. Put
it on a timer (Do you really need hot water 24 hours a day? - Don't you sleep?). We
should lower the speed limit, maybe to 60mph, since we are no longer in the high-speed "new economy". And yes, a gas tax of at least a dollar more a gallon (I mentioned this gas tax many years ago when just a penny tax
would have created 1 billion dollars in revenue per year and unleaded gas in
South Carolina was about 89 cents a gallon). Then maybe some of us would consume
less fuel. Yes, my family of 2 has one SUV that probably gets 15 mpg. We drive less than 5000 miles per year. Spent 10 years living in a truck - we stunk, but we saved more water than you will use in a lifetime. And sorry to say, but we do not have kids (you do the math on that I'm busy). Get them where it hurts, their wallet. The U.S. can also drill on its own land and seas.
Unfortunately, even the best estimates are that we only have enough of "our" own
oil to last for another 50-100 years. Most people figure they will be dead then,
so it doesn't faze them to use it up. I'm very happy that the last generation
didn't blow off Hitler for us to take care of. Or, for that matter, use up all
the water... Oh yeah, The U.S. government is considering letting corporations privatize the nations water supply. If
that happens "we the people" will be fucked, and made to pay for the
K-Y too.
The U.S. government spends
50,000,000,000 dollars on protecting our oil interests in the Persian Gulf. We get 19,000,000,000 worth of oil from that region... If that is true, then to me,
that makes no
sense!
We are a nation that is addicted to consumption.
It shows in our drug addictions, our obesity, our total devotion to Hollywood,
as well as our blind devotion to corporate "news media", pharmaceutical
corporations, sports, etc. Wake up! Question Everything, Accept
Logic. Being "bully on the block" begets respect from the feared, but not for
long. In the past and present respect has been given away to anyone or entity that wanted it...
The U.S. needs to earn the respect of the nations of the
world and vice versa. To do this, Logic and Honesty need to be used constantly
by everyone involved. If a nation or people are not being honest we still should
not lower ourselves to their level (unless of course you want to see the USA
and, lets say, Cuba, on Jerry Springer).
Let me point out here that I am not against
globalization. Although, I am very much in fear of unchecked, corrupt,
globalization. Face it, "we are the world". We, I hate to berate this again,
have fucked... too much for too long. So here we are. We don't have everything
it takes for us to survive in America. As a country we can not survive without trade. We
should trade. It should be a giant flea market! As people have said, "the world
is getting smaller." I do believe that to many companies have merged into
unchecked conglomerates. These ever-expanding companies are the root of
corruption in the United States government. One reason why? Lobbyist. Get rid of
the favoritism brought about by monies flowing out of the corrupt corporations
and into the hands of corrupt government officials. Your government representatives should not feel secure in their appointed office. The fault in our corrupt government and corporations lies with the
people that don't act against such, well, bullshit! Do you think that it is
suppose to be this way? I guess so, Bush for a second term? That's just fine
with me. I'm moving to the mountains. I will not have kids or
grandkids to worry about debt or die in war; it's all yours. I would like to add... If the U.S. government thinks
drug users and dealers are supplying money to criminals and crooks in other
countries - where the hell do you think the money we pour into our gas tanks is
going? The almighty TERRORISTS. Hey did you hear that Afghanistan is growing more poppies than when the
Taliban was in control. Thank god, now maybe the price of opium will finally go
down! Please let me mention one last bitch. The U.S.
government has put this country in immediate peril with uncontrollable spending.
Communist China owns enough of our debt to completely ruin us as a nation if /
when they call the note do. And... Fuck you Google... move to China.
VOTE... The voting system in America, as well as most of the
world, needs to be brought up to date. No, I am not holding a grudge from the
Gore/Bush presidential election. That, like most elections, where the choice
of two evils (if you don't know where the candidates for president come from you
better start learning... If you care). We have the technology to vote from
our homes or offices. Voting via the phone or computer can be in place for the
next presidential election, if not then, the next. In the mean time VOTE, how
ever they let you! The people have the power for change.The first step in change is that at any time there is to be a vote for an elected official or a
proposition, VOTE! ANY vote should be taken on a mandatory day off of work and school. All and
any employee of a private or public company, government office, or school should have a mandatory
day off to vote. Whether or not the people use their day off for voting (there
are always a couple of assholes in the group) is another story. Before there
will be any significant change, the people have to take back the reins of power
via the power of each individual vote. If you don't like it, don't leave it, change it. One last thought... Christy and I vote... On one occasion we ran home (when
we weren't on the road) popped some popcorn open a beer and made a party out of it.
And we did party, until "the last vote was counted". Most of the time we planned not to work the next day. When we were living near Wilmington, NC a proposition
passed by 2 votes. That really freaked us out! It does work!
"No thought exists in me which death has not carved with
a chisel" Michelangelo
Death... "Won't you spare me over to another
year..." When I was 14 I figured I would be dead by 20. Then when I
turned 20 I figured I might last until 25 (those 5 years were very crazy - i.e.
see Drugs). I don't really remember hitting the big 30, at least not the whole
year. Death is really not a problem. To me it's just a long sleep with no
dreams. Many family and friends have died over the
years. Some I barely knew, others I had known too well. It always comes as a
shock because it is usually the last person you would think of dying at that
time. You might think I'm a little obsessed with this death thing. I guess I
just want to remind myself that it does end - quickly.
Death took one of my computer classes (and passed).
The Tibetan Book of the dead is
an intimate portrayal of the process of death and the opportunity that it
presents for liberation. According to the Tibet tradition you must understand
death intimately and prepare yourself for it in order to live a full and
satisfying life.
There is no sin
greater than ignorance ~ Rudyard Kipling
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