shane's 'blog

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Take a Walk

Click the thumbnails to make them larger...

The hell with work. It's bad for your health. Just walk out for a while. Let them think you went to the bathroom or had a conference or something.

There must be woods somewhere close by. You might find an abandoned train track to take you deep into them.

Then get off the beaten track (you're not beaten yet, are you?) Stare at the patterns and colors the leaves make against a blue sky.

Look down at you feat, where impressionist paintings lie strewn, colors and shapes there only as long as the wind and the season allows them, like sandcastles on a beach awaiting the tide. The art of the moment.

Then deeper into the woods ...

...until you find a hollow like a cathedral, a twisted tree covered in moss twining up to the heavens.

Sit. Be at peace.
~

(Pics taken by me.)

11/27/2004 04:35:00 PM

Friday, November 26, 2004

It's a real AP photo. Click the image to go to a link from Yahoo News, via MonkeyFilter.

Putin knows, doesn't he? Look at that grin ... Japanese Prime Minster Junichiro Koizumi noticed too, I think. But Putin, he's definitely chuckling inside. What's Russian for "I'm not telling that idiot his fly is down during a huge photo-op"..?

You know there's a great big metaphor in there, right? Maybe several.
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Larger image here, well-worth clicking.

11/26/2004 08:26:00 PM

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Blurry is Good

(Moss, dead wood, dry leaves, underbrush...)

(I have no idea, but it moves like clouds or mist...)
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(Clickey to make biggy.)

11/24/2004 11:13:00 AM

Monday, November 22, 2004

Tiny Spider Destroys Tokyo City

Spiders should be commended for industriousness, stoicism and bravery. You can dust away a web in an old house, but it will reappear as if by magic the next day, some trait of stubbornness or irascible perseverance having caused the spider to rebuild it in exactly the same spot. And if the tiniest of spiders catches you sweeping away its gossamer trap, it will often stand defiant, glaring at you threateningly. Retreat is not in its vocabulary.

The spider stands its ground, completely ignoring the fact that you are thousands or tens-of-thousands of times bigger than itself, and perhaps even advances in your direction, warning you away from its turf.

The spider, not you, is Godzilla, and you are just the insignificant little scientist, the one who tried to warn the military that their tanks and guns and jets were useless against such a force of nature.

Run away! Tokyo belongs to Godzilla...
~

11/22/2004 11:42:00 AM

Self-Affirmation:

I can burp and hiccup at exactly the same time. With a mouthful of Skittles.

The hell with whatever the world says. I have talent.
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11/22/2004 11:32:00 AM

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

...ever since that last post I find myself picturing, at odd times and out of the blue, styled pubes. Mostly beehives and greased-back high pompadours. I'm hereby banishing the subject from ArgyBarple and from my mind indefinitely.

I'm giving up on looking at my Referral Logs too. The Birtney Spears trick worked too well, and now I'm getting visitors looking for britney spears pubic hair. Another recent visit came via a search for free nude pic of the wee, which sounds somewhat disconcerting. Maybe he meant free nude pic of the week.
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11/17/2004 09:47:00 AM

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Note to Self:

Writing a 'blog post complaining about all the people visiting the 'blog via searches for "pubic hair grooming tips" and such will only result in more people visiting the 'blog via the same searches. Visitors to Argy in the last 24 hours include Google searches for:

pubic hair pic
Porn Grooming tips
pics of male pubic hair
pubic hair designs pics
pubic hair style picture

What's up with the last two? People actually style their ...

Nevermind.

*Siiiigh*

Oh, and the "BRITNEY NUDE" trick worked aces.
~

11/16/2004 02:27:00 PM

The Uncomfortable Moments a Certain Total Flake Experiences in the Corporate Cubicle Ranch ...

1. The company CEO only ever walks into the bathroom just as the flake is leaning over the sink, staring in the mirror while squeezing a zit ...

2. The flake becomes agitated due to an overwhelming amount of data-entry, gets an attack of the sillies, begins juggling wadded napkins, misses an errant throw and trips backwards, falls onto chair, rolls across cubicle and smacks into filing cabinet still giggling ...

... notices boss is watching.

3. The flake gets in to work late with arms full, cannot get magnetic keycard out of pocket to unlock door, instead jumps up and down trying to touch keycard in pocket to magnetic scanner by doorhandle ... notices other employee pulling into driveway watching him.

4. The flake takes a peaceful walk through the woods at lunch. Returns with shoes covered in mud. Leaves trail of mud from door through cubicle farm directly to his desk: evidence that is impossible to refute. HR manager follows trail of mud, yells at flake, forces flake to get broom and clean up mess. Evidently cleaning people have already complained about flake's mudprints several times in the past.

5. Flake compiles a list of jokes about George W Bush to post on an internet forum. Types these jokes onto an e-mail reply with intention of cutting/pasting them to the forum. Flake adds a few URLs he needs to remember, such as a link to the Wolfman Bobble Head Doll he wants to buy, a link to Unamerican.com that sells t-shirts with slogans like "Fear Bush" and "Fuck Yeah I'm Weird" and "Nature is Pissed." The flake accidentally bumps Ctrl-something on keyboard and sends e-mail to most conservative worker in the company.

6. One morning the flake walks all the way through the building to his cubicle before noticing his fly is down. He is not wearing underwear.

7. The flake comes in to work late again. He is wearing corduroys that swish as he walks, and his socks have holes in the heels, causing his bare heels to produce a slight smacking sound with each step. Flake sneaks to his desk walking bowlegged and on tiptoes. Boss turns corner and sees flake walking as if he has just climbed down off a very uncomfortable ride on a horse that perhaps resulted in hemorrhoids ...

8. Flake puts out birdseed in backyard before work. Gets to work, sits at desk, notices funny smell. Discovers dog-poo on shoes from backyard. Discovers trail of dog-poo leading from front door to his desk. Rushes to "casually" clean dog-poo trail before HR yells at him again ...

9. Flake sits at his desk, surfs Internet, Alt-Tabs frantically between the Web that keeps him interested enough to keep staring at the computer and the six work-screens that run reports and queries full of numbers that scroll through his mind like the credits after a movie every night as he goes to sleep ... Flake smells like dog-poo and looks like shite. He doesn't care. He's dreaming of a new job.
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11/16/2004 11:26:00 AM

Monday, November 15, 2004

"Ubiquitous"

The word is just wrong, isn't it? I mean, it doesn't sound at all like what it means. "Ubiquitous" sounds like the strange biological process of an exotic insect, perhaps involving something excreted or secreted. And everywhere you look people are using the word "ubiquitous" everywhere at the same time; omnipresent, making "ubiquitous" quite ... ubiquitous, just like its definition.

Or maybe if there were an island named "Ubiq," and the monkeys of that island were known as the "Ubiquitous Monkeys" ... that works for me.

Now, on the other hand, take the words "out" and "in." Certainly popular words in the English language, these "ins and outs" ... You'd have a tough time teaching a learner of English-as-a-foreign-language all the possible definitions of "in" and "out." And "in" and "out" sound like what they mean.

When you pronounce the word "out" your mouth forms an "O", a circle, and a circle automatically has an inside and an outside. "Out" is what's ... outside of that circle, and the circle is a perimeter outside of something. Perfect!

And "in": it's a quick, sharp, pointed, linear word like an arrow, an arrow that points to something inside, or that flies to its mark in the bullseye of a target.

"In" and "out" should sound right too, as they're pretty damn important concepts. Think of all the geometry and maths involved with the simple concepts of "in" and "out" and circles ... you could study set-theory itself for the rest of your life and barely put a dent in the pure maths field surrounding it. Heck, set-theory turns into philosophy or music if you take it far enough ... or so I've heard.

But "ubiquitous"? I'm sorry, I just don't like it. I vote we give it a new meaning, or maybe just make it much less ubiquitous. "Omnipresent" gets my vote instead.

Thanks. You can go back to what you weren't doing now.
~

11/15/2004 01:29:00 PM

Friday, November 12, 2004

Friday Miscellanea

Spam poetry received today:

From : Kacey
Sent : Friday, November 12, 2004 9:19 AM
To : "Sharee Enriqueta"
Subject : Re:

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tomorrow earlier against ticket,

Um, thanks, "Kacey." Very nice. I'm getting a sort of post-modern alienation and angst vibe, which is always dead important i reason, as you said. Mind if I submit this to some magazines?

"Robbie Tptifoo" also gets an honorable-spam-mention for offering me "Such drugs!" at "elfincost!" Ta, Robert. I like your name. I guess anything at "elfincost" must be a deal. Send me some Xanax and muscle relaxers and I'll elfinpay you later.

I ♥ spam.

Sometimes.

Referral Logs

Due to the diverse things mentioned on ArgyBarple, half of Argy's visitors come here accidentally searching for some interesting unrelated things. Evidently once you've mentioned underwear or pubic hair on your 'blog, you'll immediately and forever-after attract some interesting folks. Recent visits to Argy via search engines include:

male grooming tips pubic hair (Yahoo Search)
"Male Pubic Hair grooming" (Metacrawler)
pubic hair shaving pattern pic (Google)
no pubic hair photography (Yahoo Search)

Sorry, folks, can't help ya. Um, good luck, though.

More:

the person who write the theme tune to foster's home for imaginary friends (Google)
music theme Foster's home imaginary friends music sample (Google)
Etc etc...

Kids (and adults) looking for the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friend's Theme Song:

Sorry, I can't help you either, but there's a ton of people Googling for that song. I don't know who wrote it, I can't find you an MP3, but you have good taste; it's a great kind of cartoon-ragtime happy tune. Watch Foster's on Cartoon Network, maybe record an episode on tape or DVD, then have one of your tech-savvy friends transfer the theme-song to a music-tape or CD. Sooner or later an MP3 will show up somewhere (or maybe even a soundtrack.)

Others:

SNIFFING REDDYWHIP (Google)

Look, you don't sniff the actual whipped cream, you inhale the propell... Um, nevermind. Grab a can and knock yourself out. Have fun.

atomic wedgie of death (Hotbot Search)
atomic wedgies underwear (Yahoo Search)
Etc etc etc...

Again: can't help ya. It's not rocket science, though. You just grab the undershorts and do what an Australian tour-guide does when he's face-to-face with a crocodile: Give it a big YANK!

So, just for fun, this oughta get me a ton of hits:

BRITNEY NUDE BRITNEY NUDE BRITNEY NUDE!!

Ha! As if Argy would ever be so crass. Argy prefers Christina, anyway ;-)
~

11/12/2004 10:12:00 AM

Thursday, November 11, 2004

In the News...

Microsoft unveils service in search for Google rival

MICROSOFT has unveiled the first version of its own internet search engine, as it aims to take the leading position in the search market from Google.

-More at the Scotsman Evening News, Thu 11 Nov 2004.

Bill Gates, seen here picking his nose in
imitation of what Microsoft has been doing
while Google and Firefox kick its ass.
(AFP/File Photo)

(The Firefox web browser was created in 2002 by a 17-year-old.)
~

11/11/2004 10:18:00 AM

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

In the "News"...

Shortly after his re-election last week President Bush said, "Let me put it to you this way. I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election and I'm going to spend it."

ArgyBarple's fly on the wall (who is literally a talking fly, although he often prefers ceilings to walls) in the White House confirmed that Bush does indeed have big plans, the first of which is to "...leave the [White House] toilet seats up after peeing from now on. Laura can just like it or lump it. I'm the President, after all. Hell, I might not even lift the seat before I pee."

Unfortunately for Iraq, Karl Rove is somewhat less short-sighted than the President, and at Rove's urging the U.S. military began spending Bush's capital by bombing Fallujah back into the Stone Age after the President enjoyed his newfound urinary freedom over the weekend. Evidently while the President was happily peeing on $600 toilet seats, Rove was dreaming up new ways to piss all over the Middle East.

What's next for the President's capital spending plans? Our fly on the wall isn't sure, although he has overheard vague ideas to "...invade some other A-rab country, maybe that other one that starts with an 'I'."

Would that be Iran, Mr President? We'll let you confer with Dick and Karl and get back to us.
~

11/09/2004 09:54:00 AM

Monday, November 08, 2004

It's not too late to take a run through the woods and watch the fall leaves pass beneath your feet.
~
(Clicky to make the photo's biggy.)

11/08/2004 08:08:00 PM

When you drive south, do you ever feel as if you should be coasting? You know, because you're, like ... headed downward?

I guess gravity doesn't work that way...
~

11/08/2004 01:11:00 PM

Friday, November 05, 2004

RaNdOM; 'Nasty, Brutish and Short'

Can't seem to pull it together to write today. I want to write about something other than the election, but I guess the need to spew is still too strong. We'll return to short "fiction" and funny pics soon, I hope. But now, RaNdOM thoughts are a plague. No rewriting today:

It's been a rough week. As someone who desperately hoped (and thought) that the election would go differently, Wednesday was pure shock, just a hell of a way to wake up, having not watched the election results the night before. Once, back in college, I drank a whole bottle of Yukon Jack at a birthday party, and the whole election thing has had the same effect. The first day after, you're sick but still mercifully loopy. It's the second day that you're really sober enough to feel like hell. Yesterday the anger and crankiness sank in, the head feeling painfully hollow and grimy like a dirty ashtray. So Bush has effectively stolen two days from me, although I should count my blessings, as many others are worse off due to his policies, having lost lives, arms or legs, loved ones ...

Total alienation: I keep looking at people and wondering if they voted for Bush. And if they DID vote for Bush, what the hell is going on in their minds? I can't believe anyone over the age of ten is unable to see the trail of corruption. Does no one care? And I'd be less shocked if an adult told me he believed in the Tooth Fairy than if he told me he thought Bush invaded Iraq "to protect America."

So what explanations are left? Stupidity, mental illness, or just lack of a soul?

And that sounds so extreme. I feel a tinge of guilt. I don't want to think that of people. But I just can't understand ...

I honestly feel as if I've just discovered that the general population of the U.S. can't add two-plus-two. Harsh, but that's exactly how I feel.

Like most people, I have the urge to understand my fellow human beings. I want to live in a rational world in which I can feel that there is some logical common ground between us all, something that allows for communication and empathy and connection ... but it all feels ... RaNdOM now.

A RaNdOM act of violence woke me up this morning: Someone had smashed two windows on my work-car last night. Then again, a concerned neighbor I'd never met woke me up to tell me I should call the police. That felt good. That's what we all want: fellowship, trust. The building blocks of a society in which we can live meaningfully.

I had a good conversation with the deputy who took the report; we analyzed the situation. I enjoyed making sense of it, even just to determine what happened. Logic triumphing over RaNdOM confusion:

There were no large tree limbs anywhere near the car, and a limb that could have caused the damage would have been too heavy to blow away, however blustery it was last night. The car that received the damage was closest to the road and an easy target/fast getaway, and the car was too old for an alarm system to be likely. The damage records three distinct hits: one small round "dent" in the front windshield (the largest, most dramatic target), obviously caused by the end of something (a baseball bat): this was probably the initial unsuccessful swing; Then a second long shattered crease on the windshield, the bat having been swung harder, hitting the glass lengthwise with its side, cracking the entire window but not breaking it in; Then, most likely frustrated with the front windshield, the vandal hit the third successful whack on the side window, which crashed easily into pieces.

It feels good to understand, to have made sense out of something unknown. Less RaNdOM that way ...

So that's what happened. But why did it happen in the first place? It would feel better if they'd opened the door to search for money or drugs or something to hock, but the lock was down and covered in glass, the door obviously unopened. And frankly, it's been a long time since I pissed anyone off.

No motive: just RaNdOM, the cop and I agreed.

This feels worse than if I knew it happened as the result of an altercation or a grudge. It makes no sense ...

RaNdOM feels bad. The Philosopher Thomas Hobbes appealed to people's fear of the RaNdOMness of war and an unstructured society. He didn't bother moralizing, instead saying that "good" and "evil" are concepts used subjectively and conveniently by different people. This was the genius of Hobbes: he simply said that, without some sort of structure and accountability in society, we live in a state of war, a state of uncertainty and chaos that prevents us from living meaningful lives:

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.*

I guess that's how it all feels to me today: RaNdOM; 'Nasty, Brutish and Short.' Hobbes makes it clear that laws and government are necessary, but what good are they if the government is above the law? What good is a democracy if people are blind, or simply don't care, or if the people who do influence the government influence it towards corruption?

It's not even a democracy, and this is very important: it is a representative democracy. We are governed by representatives. But how often do we tell our representatives what we want them to do? And if we don't, who does tell them what to do?

If the majority of the population are uninformed, apathetic, or fooled by propaganda, then the whole system falls apart.

RaNdOM; 'Nasty, Brutish and Short.' That's where we are today.
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*Hobbes's Leviathan (1660) is online, thanks to Oregon State U, HERE. My quote comes from Chapter XIII.

11/05/2004 10:31:00 AM

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Non-Word of the Day:

interwingledness
n.

A soaring flock of birds can be said to have interwingledness ;

adj.: interwingled;

"The grackle loved to lose himself in flight, interwingled with his brothers and sisters high above the earth."

See also: intertwingledness
~

11/04/2004 11:12:00 AM

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

YOU FOOLS! WHAT

HAVE YOU DONE?!

Day After Election Blues...

I suppose there must be a good side:

The rest of the world should now know for sure that the majority of America is a large man named Bubba in a pickup truck with a gun rack and KKK robes in the back. Okay, sometimes he drives an SUV and even works in an office, he has a .45 and a conceal-and-carry permit stashed in the truck instead of a shotgun, and he tells 'nigger' and 'towelhead' and 'homo' jokes in a hushed voice around the water cooler instead of wearing those white robes in public.

But he's still Bubba. I know him all too well.

Now the world had better have his number.

Overheard while I waited in line to vote:

She: "There's a ballot to ban gay marriages and there's a ballot to give the Fire Department more money. We'll give the firemen the money, right?"

He: "Sure. But what if it's for a gay fireman?"

*laughter*

You see, there's really no sense in waiting for those Ohio provisional votes to be counted. They're all going to Bush. Ohio prides itself on being more Midwestern than the Midwest, more redneck than the stereotype of the South.

So, four more years of Corporate Criminals in the White House. It's always been bad, but never as flagrant as with this administration. Bush/Cheney/Rove/Halliburton have proven they can do whatever they like and the American public will not even notice, setting a precedent for the future corruption.

I have tried to understand the mentality that elects Bush, but to no avail. I've watched America for years with the patient approach of a sociologist, walking practically unseen through every type of job and every type of people, accepted but feeling like an alien, an outsider ... but I may as well be studying amoebas under a microscope, wondering why they move this way and that. I'm no wiser, just alienated.

Sure, some voters have a monetary interest in re-electing Bush, and they have no concern whatsoever for the morality of the situation. But the general public votes on no logical basis, instead relying on impressions, emotions, and "gut instinct," as far as I can tell.

There's absolutely no use in telling them they didn't vote for Bush, they voted for Karl Rove ... and Bush is just a ventriloquist dummy with Rove's hand up his ass. And they voted for the Neocons ("Neo-Whuts?") and the oil industry and the multi-nationals ("Now look here, buddy, you're losing me ... Multi-Whuts?") and the richest 1% of the nation and the Military-Industrial Complex ("WHUT!?") and continued conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and for ... well, I don't need to tell you all this, do I?

If you're as perplexed as I am, you might enjoy the following e-mail exchange, although it will perplex you even more. I've worked for five years with a very intelligent, seemingly caring person in Tennessee, which is an incredibly friendly, educated state, not the redneck stereotype of the American South. She's nice. She's kidding when she says "Kerry is so ugly" and she's being humble when she says she is not intelligent ... Just before Election Day we had this conversation, in which I made a last ditch, last-minute effort:

Hey, I just thought of something: I just skimmed the surface, but I still told you in pretty good detail why I'm voting against Bush. You never told me why you're voting FOR the beady-eyed little creep, heh. What's your reasoning?

-Shane

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I am not political and I am not a debater so I cannot really explain why. But I have followed the campaigns pretty well this year. I think Kerry is the best in debate but I think he talks a lot and can't follow up with the actions that he promises. I also think that Bush is having to be President and campaign so he is at a disadvantage. Kerry just has to campaign. He can talk big but can he follow up? In general I follow my instincts and I just do not have warm and fuzzies about Kerry. I am glad that Bush counter-attacked Iraq and showed them that we will not sit idle after the 9/11 attack. I am not sure that Kerry would do such a thing. I feel for the servicepeople that are over there and I know that not all of them chose to go. We have our local National Guard over there right now. Many of them are in their late 40s and 50s and I don't think that they were prepared for such. But when they left and in their letters home they support Bush and they support the decision to continue to attack in Iraq. I don't know why anyone would choose to be President. After the election I will settle back down into my unpolitical self and will support whichever one wins. My philosophy is that if you criticize then you should have another plan or option. I would hate to be in either of their shoes and I will support whichever one does win and know that he will do what he thinks is right for the country. And besides all that.....Kerry is so ugly!!!!!

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What do you think about some of the obvious issues?:

Cheney was former CEO of Haliburton, primarily an oil company. Bush and family are oil-people. Bush invades Iraq even though bin Ladin is somewhere else (who knows where?) Iraq is the second biggest oil reserve in the world. Halliburton gets tons of contracts to reconstruct Iraq after the war. Halliburton is constantly under fire for overcharging for supplies in Iraq (example: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5333896/ ).

All of this is just the tip of the iceberg. It gets much worse as you dig deeper. Also, Iraq has become a quagmire, and it's going to get worse, with Americans under attack daily.

How can you NOT suspect the invasion of Iraq was for purely economic reasons? It's like connecting a few dots, or adding two-plus-two. I find issues like this impossible to ignore.

Also, don't you ever feel like Bush is playing you? He keeps up all this talk of how the "evildoers hate freedom" and all that. Remember I told you that Muslims hate America because of U.S. foreign policy, especially the billions of dollars the U.S. has given Israel, with which Israel has stomped on the Palestinians and the Lebanese? (Here are some numbers: "Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person." Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html )

Well, in that Osama bin Ladin videotape that just surfaced, bin Ladin said that he first conceived of attacking the U.S. when Israel invaded Lebanon with U.S. approval. But Bush is spinning it all into this comic-book fantasy, and making himself a hero, the only one who can "defend" the U.S. from people who hate us, when in fact he's fueling and perpetuating the "War on Terror," not bringing it under control or to any kind of conclusion. And frankly, this perpetual war is the best thing that could happen to a president like Bush.

Same thing with Afghanistan. There's tons of oil north of Afghanistan, but a pipeline THROUGH Afghanistan is the only way to get it out. That pipeline is now being built: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2608713.stm .

You're welcome to your own opinion and I'll respect that completely. But Bush is rotten. He's insincere and he's playing the American public for all they're worth, and those kids are dying in Iraq for a business deal. The rest of the world thinks we're idiots for letting Bush and Cheney and Rove get away with all this. Or worse: maybe they think we approve.

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That is why I am not a debater. There is no way that I can keep up with intelligent people. I want to agree with everything you say but I don't want to agree. I think I am just a softie and I go with instinct (which is not always right!). I can't argue with anything that you say. I have enjoyed watching the news commentators hash it out. But I don't trust Kerry either and I guess I just trust him less than I trust Bush.

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There are many conclusions to be drawn, some justifiably angry, some "nicer" and more "psychological"... there's no denying that the President is a father-figure ... The largest part of America wants to feel secure, safe to chase the American dream without guilt, without knowledge of consequence, with no nagging awareness of the suffering of others and of the environment and animals, selfishly prolonging the end of innocence even when it means lying to itself...

O beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
Lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie
...
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence

-Don Henley

11/03/2004 02:47:00 PM