Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Ten Thioughts To Start A Fight

1. Despite best efforts agony continues on the Gulf Coast. This suffering is not an act of God. It may, however, be a little comment: The states hit are all red.
2. The president who has done the most to desecrate our environment - among all presidents in our history - will go down in history as the man who couldn't make a difference when faced with natural disasters, the result of our continuing refusal to protect our environment. Remember that this president has used pens again and again to sign acts that will desecrate our land, water and air. It's all come back to bite him in the butt. Perhaps that's an act of God. And remeber that this evil he has done cannot be reversed.
3. Shouldn't a judge serve on the Supreme Court before he or she becomes Chief Justice?
4. We are about to install a white, male to the highest job in the Supreme Court. Thus it has always been. How much longer?
5. Women still vote the way their husbands do. Isn't that embarrassing? That being the case they deserve to be second class citizens. We know how their votes fall, because women, being in the majority could elect absolutely anyone. But they elect old, white men in deference to their husbands. And we all live with these choices.
6. Donald Trump is on television for two reasons. His unmitigated gall. And the lowest common denominator of television viewers.
7. Kelly Monaco earned her win on Dancing With The Stars. How dare anyone ask for a do-over! Then tilt the scores to a jackass favored by women - once again.
8. Colin Farrell (whose name is misspelled by interviewers to whom he has given his day and is now way ahead in the Liza Minnelli contest for misspelled names) deserves - well, the best of everything. Including the shots in which he bares all that are cut by idiot producers. When you've got it, you should be allowed to flaunt it!
9. The worst president in history, having killed thousands of people, considers himself superior to the president who got a blow job in the Oval Office. I can think of endless acts to perform in that office that would not threaten human life.
10. It's possible, but I can't know for sure, that Hillary Clinton is even smarter than Bill. And should be our next president. But guess what? Women vote the way their husbands do. The democrats are looking for an old, white man even now.
Oh, 11. I really don't give a damn what you think. And that is the flaw that will dog me to the grave.

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Ripples

Keeping politics and religion out of philosophy is a burdensome, if not impossible, effort.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist died today. He cast a vote that put George Bush in office and America at war.
For the first time in U.S. history "refugees" describes a sizable number of Americans. At this moment they have been deprived of aid from a government that burned billions in Baghdad and stretched its National Guard (from which the President once hid and now hides again) so thin that it is hard-pressed to help its own refugees.
The Rehnquist Court in an earlier decision made it easy to impeach a President who is now on television, asking Americans to help the people its government cannot.
The Administration has a spin going that swears help is here.
William Rehnquist died today, sending one last ripple that will cripple us: an open seat on the Supreme Court.
Once a stone hits the water there is no stopping its effect.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

MONEY SPENT

I look around at my walls every day and wish $75,000 would land in my lap, so that I could re-do this apartment and ask Tim Klein to paint it. But, alas...today my car wracked me to the tune of $2,000. There went $2,000 from the decorating budget. And last week there was the $1,500 crown chez dentist. Well, you can see I'm swallowing our budget and driving it around.

The New Yorker rejected me today. Of course, I'd rather be rejected by the best than...well, you finish it.

I'm watching Inherit the Wind and am stunned once again that George Bush, among everything else, has turned back the clock of learning by eighty years.

If I do nothing but blogg the Bush numbers, I can write for a year.