Well, Fall is officially here, and it was yet another beautiful day here, in fact, according to the weatherperson, it was beautiful all over these United States. I'm not a chevvy person, quite the opposite. I have owned one or two, most notably a '63 Pickup, it was OK. But now...http://www.chevrolet.com/corvette/ has caught mine eye. This is something to get enthusiastic about! The model that I want would run around $65K. Pretty slack day at work, nothing fun, nothing dramatic, just work. I'm getting really antsy to be away, away. I'm beginning to wonder if I really have the guts to do this. I've told enough people in RL about it, though, that I will lose a great deal of face if I don't. Not that I've ever O'yeah, I did mean that literally. Each of you will have to send me $300 a month, why, that's almost a thousand dollars a month! Why didn't I think of this earlier? JournalCon. It's in San Francisco this year, and many of my favorite people are going. And I'm not. Most of my favorite people went the first year too, but few of them went last year when I did. Out of phase, I am. I did enjoy last year, though, but I was rather disappointed, I have to admit. To really enjoy something like that, you have to be part of the group, and I never felt that way. I think that everybody thought that I was somewhere else, while I was really nowhere. Today's picture is Karen in like 1988 or so. It's always been one of my favorite pictures of her. She is still a handsome woman, and still the love of my life. Am I boring, or what? I haven't said anything nasty about BabyBush for a while, have I? Well, OK, he's a war-mongering sonofabitch, he is. Bob Dylan, Masters of War... protest songs in general are cool. Everyone is afraid to be anti-government, and for good reason. Doogood. What a name, what a story. Is there a parent alive who hasn't seriously thought about tearing their kids' arm off and beating them to death with it? Well, OK, I'm sure that there are some who are pure as the driven snow... but not me. I came *that* close (please... picture Maxwell Smart with his fingers 5/8 of an inch apart...) a half-dozen times at least, and that was just with my own kids. No, I never really did it, though. But I do remember smacking something really close to them to get their attention, and put the fear in them. On the other hand, they were pretty good kids. So, what about this woman? She didn't hurt the child, the doctors did a thorough exam, she was OK. Was it a case of more noise than anything else? Was she looking around to see if anybody was looking, or was there a car horn that made her turn her head? Is anybody giving her the benefit of the doubt? We are just so ready to jump on anyone, lash out, hit, punish, we are so desperate to find targets for our wrath... is it any wonder that BabyBush is finding so much support for his warlike behaviour? We turn on our televisions, hoping to find violence erupting somewhere... to entertain us. To keep the self-hate from festering... the self-hate existing, 'cause we know that we don't deserve a better president, a better government, better leaders. We have the best government that our corporations can buy, we should be happy with that, and a majority are. The constitution isn't there to protect the majority, however... they don't need protection, do they? And the constitution carefully didn't give the president the power to declare and conduct wars. And the congress can't really legally do that, either. The last time that they did was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, and we all know what LBJ did with that one... he took it and ran with it, and it cost us dearly in blood. This time, this time... will be much worse, because we should know better, and the world knows that we should know better.
really worried about saving or losing face, of course. And I know that if worse comes to worse, I can always depend on my loyal readers to support me.