Foggy afternoon, what happened to me?........................................ I used to be the
hippie type, full of the attitude that we can
all get along together and there can be
peace and people will start to REALLY evolve and....why do I still think the same? Have I
learned anything? Zippy the Pinhead rules. The artist of Zippy, Bill Griffith, grew up in
Levittown, which is where I (essentially) grew up. So I
relate to Zippy and his adventures. I think Matt Groening must have love Zippy, because the Simpson's have as many
non-sequiturs as a Zippy comic. I want to be Zippy.
Oh, dear gods, maybe I already
am! I like
money, no doubt. But I am stunned at what a bunch of
greedy whiners we have become.
Proof of greed is in the little things. Hey, how about a four dollar
soy-mocha-vanilla-non-fat-crappacino, which adds up to at least eighty to a
hundred bucks a month. Hey, you can afford it. Really? Is that why the voters in your district voted down a hundred dollar a year tax to keep the school district from
cutting out music or sports or art?
Nixon offered a Single Payer health plan to Ted Kennedy in 1972, who regretfully (as he stated in his book before he died) turned it down because Kennedy wanted free health care for all. Wha? That means that Republicans knew that the United States needed a health care system. In 1972. Why not now? Who are the people who are against "Western Medicine"? Raise your hands! What the hell is the matter with you? So you are willing to try all the homeopathic garbage AFTER you grew up and your parents made sure you would stay alive by getting your immunizations and now you think you are around because of frikkin' shots of Acai berry? None of this stuff has been proven to work in a scientific setting. Why would you trust this untested crap over "Western Medicine"? C'mon, argue with me on this, I am chomping at the bit!! Let's face it, though, the placebo effect is still one of the best healers, which I think helps explain why most people feel the need for religion. It is a good feeling, the one of faith. It is easy, dogmatic and uncomplicated. It simplifies your life with rules to live by. It takes away your having to feel left out. It helps people to ease their pain of a sad or negative time. It has celebrations, times to party and pray. Religion also gives people a second chance. That can be a good thing. But there are many who use religion as a way to hide who they really are, who never really change or believe the dogma.
One of the worst things about my marriage to Jen, my soon-to-be-ex, was that I was faithful. Oh, stop it, ladies, I am a guy. So for me to go 23 years of being "good" was a waste of time. Otherwise, my memories are only of collected stuff that we now have to divide up. The "peace of mind" of knowing I was faithful is not there. Faithful is only good when you are married.
I want to see: Serious Man, Hurt Locker, Up in the Air, Inglourious Basterds. Never want to see again: Avatar (unless it is 3D IMAX, otherwise, what's the point?). What a white audience at the Oscars. But the camera finds every one of the black people when a brother wins. Kinda obvious, no? Nice circle jerk for Hollywood, the Oscars, but this year, Hollywood did very well. YOW!
Peace
