Here's a simple question.

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Tuesday January 04, 2005 · 11:08 AM PST

2005/01/04 · 11:08

I will not label this with the requiste "tin foil" warning. I have to say, I'm a bit baffled by the number of subjects (ie, conspiracy theories) still considered "tin foil" territory - as there is so much evidence, and conflicting data on many of these subjects, that I start wondering what the "litmus test" is for legitimacy. Ohio comes to mind - tin foil to Conyers in one short month. Anyhow...

Today's question is one I've had for several years now.
No one talks about it, and that seems almost bizarre to me.

If there really are terrorists out to get the US - and this is not merely a ploy by our government to control people through fear - how is it possible that there have been no serious attacks on our soil since 9/11? Read More

Easy now, I just want some soup.

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Monday January 03, 2005 · 8:51 PM PST

2005/01/03 · 20:51

Greetings for the second time in one evening.

I would say I'm on a roll - only I know the truth, I should be in the other room working but feel uninspired and kind of blah.

I've been the "pensive and heartfelt" b6 in my earlier diary, and I've been part of the fiery commentary on georgia10's wonderful diary in response to Kos. Frankly, I've had all the seriousness I can stand for the moment - and so I will indulge in the kind of idiocy one should indulge in as we head towards midnite. Read More

Perspective, young and old.

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Monday January 03, 2005 · 7:05 PM PST

2005/01/03 · 19:05

Now that I am what is officially referred to as "middle aged", I'm 42, I can't help but catch myself spewing many of the cliches I noticed as a "youth". Of course, youth is relative - I am still the youngest of my childhood friends, but I am considerably older than most of my girlfriend's friends. I think of myself as a permanent adolescent - It's still difficult for me to think of myself as older than my attorney, but I am.

One of the things I like most about dKos - on days when I'm not feeling annoyed - is the demographic "spread". It's nice to communicate with people both older and younger, of different races, classes, histories, etc. Read More

Is Gaia Trying to Tell Us Something?

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Friday December 31, 2004 · 8:49 AM PST

2004/12/31 · 08:49

It's New Year's Eve.

This has been a saddening year for me.
Nothing personally catastrophic has happened to me. Well, maybe, but it all seems trivial compared to the
amount of suffering in the world currently.

I've grown increasingly less tolerant of pointless festivity.
It feels "unnatural" to be celebrating this evening. I'm going over
to some close friends later, I've never been crazy about New Year's Eve - this year, along with Christmas, it all seems particularly forced.

I'm probably a bit more "New Agey" than many folks around here. Read More

Do Non-White People Count?

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 10:04 AM PST

2004/12/30 · 10:04

This weeks catastrophic events further illustrate something I've always thought - America does not care about the suffering of poor, non-white people.

The list of horrors that go on constantly, without even a mention in the news, remember Rwanda - or how 'bout Sudan?

AIDS in Africa is more cataclysmic than even this weeks events, it's almost never talked about. Most Americans have no idea of the epidemic proportions the disease has grown to on that continent. Is it because they wouldn't care?
Or because it doesn't sell advertising as effectively as Scott Petersen?

Let me say clearly, this is not George Bush's fault. He's only the latest in a string of leaders representative of the American population. Read More

You need a diversion, no really -

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Wednesday December 29, 2004 · 12:20 PM PST

2004/12/29 · 12:20

you look like hell. What've you been eating? Did you sleep last nite? You haven't been drinking too much, have you?

Since the world is in the proverbial "toilet", I've taken to writing amusing questions, etc., here on underground toilet news central.

It breaks up the day. Good news is rare, and it provides welcome relief for those who've become bored with my standard profound and insightful responses to the various crises written about around here. Genius and compassion are a tiring double duty indeed.

And so - Read More

This has been a very depressing day.

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Tuesday December 28, 2004 · 9:36 PM PST

2004/12/28 · 21:36

So rather than talk about it, as others here have done so both meaningfully and intelligently, I've decided to create a humorous diversion to cheer myself and hopefully some of you up.

That was a poorly constructed sentence, but I don't have the energy to fix it right now, so bear with me.

The New Year is upon us, and I don't know about the rest of you - all political nonsense aside - but this was a rough year for me. Nothing catastrophic, just rough.

If there are "glass half full" and "glass half empty" people, I guess I'm a "where the hell did I put that glass?" person. Read More

Sunday Morning - It's going to snow.

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Sunday December 26, 2004 · 12:02 AM PST

2004/12/26 · 00:02

This just seems like the perfect time for me to share a poem I've loved for more than 25 years. From the first time I read it - it moved me to tears. This to me, is the true nature of love. I hope at least a few of you are touched by it.

Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

The Real Meaning of the Bush Administration.

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Saturday December 25, 2004 · 4:45 PM PST

2004/12/25 · 16:45

This is my Christmas meditation.

America is enormous and powerful.
Built on the solid foundation of a brilliant constitution - 228 years later we stand at another important crossroads.

Brotherhood of Man, based on "Inalienable Rights" - can a nation this size understand and honor the meaning of these words - and insure this nation's survival?
Or will our worst instincts - Fear and Greed - turn this great land into a footnote? Read More

What Artists Bring.

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Thursday December 23, 2004 · 4:18 AM PST

2004/12/23 · 04:18

I have always considered myself, first and foremost - an artist.

If each of us belongs to "a camp" when we enter this life, that is mine. At the moment I mostly make music, that's my profession anyhow. I do quite alot of photograpy too, and writing of various kinds. Over the years I have dabbled at pretty much everything.

From the time I was a kid, I knew this, I knew there was no other life for me, it was "my mission". I felt if I couldn't live my life as an artist I would never be happy. It's been equally difficult and gratifying - mostly I'm just grateful for the ability to make a living doing what I love. I feel priviledged, and fortunate. Unfortunately, at least for me, it's always been mixed with fear - Read More

Christmas Melancholia.

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 · 10:49 PM PST

2004/12/22 · 22:49

I finally went shopping today - sort of.

This is a cheap cop out but, I bought a bunch of "gift cards".

The upside, ease, portability, everyone can buy what they want.

The downside, everyone knows no thought went into it - and their value to you is clearly announced - you darling brother, are worth $100 at Barnes & Noble.

In my defense let me say - I'm Jewish.
Non-practicing, could care less, basically in agreement with everything Jesus said anyhow, oh well. I'll have the BLT. Read More

Good Afternoon, Stranger.

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 · 11:01 AM PST

2004/12/22 · 11:01

There have been a few "getting to know you" polls over the last week.

It's interesting, who chooses to participate, what people like, etc.

Being part of an online "community" is fun, and a bit strange.
You know people through their writing, but you don't know any other aspects of them. It's a world of ideas only - and that's part of what makes it nice.

My own motivation in joining dKos was simple.

Very few of my friends are interested enough in politics to talk about it. Also, politics can be a "touchy" subject for many people - Read More

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