Just because you are a hairless ape, that does not mean you are a Man

I was given reason to enter a white hot frothing rage today as instructions that I laid down clearly became corrupted not once, not twice but at least three times because the people who were responsible, or irresponsible in their turn, could not be bothered to do their own jobs and let me do mine.

Seed the Chaos Generator (c CDC)

Hunt the jesus fish; they walk on water
Seek the darwin fish; they can fly now
Beware the buddah fish; it won't eat you
Hug the muslum fish; they are in season
But when roaming in the pasture
It won't be done any faster
Than the Fish that we call Hastur
Weedle weedle weedle scumph

The jesus fish is really quick because it followes Nike
The buddah fish is pretty fast because it's mastered Tai Chi
The muslum fish it isn't slow because it invented zero
The darwin fish is super sonic, I love it in my gyros
But when roaming in the pasture
It won't be done any faster
Than the Fish that we call Hastur
Weedle weedle weedle scumph

How much trouble must a man get in before he can call himself a man.
I want to get two white boards and label them Good Users and Bad Users and keep track of the cusomers that come to me with their problems. Aneristic assholes will end up on the Bad list and Eristic philosophers on the good. I wonder how long before someone complains and I have to take them down. I wonder how much trouble I'd get in with the greyfaced cabbages that run my exercise wheel. OOOOOOO what if I just labeled them both users and didn't tell people which one was which. If I treat them the same they'd only wonder. Ooo I like it.

I can't fix everything

There are some things I can't fix. I don't have the know-how or the tools or both. Sometimes a problem doesn't want to get fixed. Imagine a sentient wheel that keeps on squeaking so that it can keep getting oil even if it doesn't need oil and everyone around the wheel is out of oil. Okay so it's not a wheel that is my problem but the situation is similar. What is one to do when the going not only gets tough but the people around you are quitting and even the road wants to stop.

A creative soul

In the world of slash and burn management anything that requires time or money is thought of as economically unviable. I really like the phrase slash and burn management; the mental images appeal to me. A back drop of a rain forest on fire.  Developers running from the line of flaming bladed death and the result is a barren wasteland. Fire light reflecting off the red piggy eyes of greedy business men as they sweat in the heat of the burning tomorrow.

A creative soul is my only refuge; to look deep into myself and let loose any feeling I find in there; to use the unbridled passions of my heart to forge my world and myself, and to learn of these passions in other people.

gotta remeber the good book

The Apocrypha Discordia that is.

In times of personal strife I like to remember the Gospel of St. Pesher the Gardener.

I suggest you read it next time you end up some where boring; church, work, jail, you know, where ever

There's no earthly way of knowing ...

Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing

Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a–blowing

Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a–glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing

Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing

I'm angry at what my government is doing. I disagree with the foreign policy that my country is putting forth. I encourage anyone who reads this to look, critically, at the Government and what it does. I hope that you the reader will believe as I do that this administration should not be in charge. I believe them to be criminals, incompetents or both. I believe the practices of this administration are immoral even if they can be justified by law. I feel that we need to cut the power of the federal government. Too much power has been put into the hands of too few. The checks and balance system that we were all taught in public school is being manipulated so that won’t do the job that it was intended to do. Bush is replacing people who oppose him with people who are loyal followers. We are coming to see that the people who have stood for the president, who have admitted faults and claimed responsibility for mistakes, are not going to see punishment. So many things are wrong and I see no way to fix them but to ask others to think about what has happen and share my opinions with them.

I will not tell you what is right; only you can do that, I will only tell you what I think. You can feel free to challenge my beliefs or ignore me; it’s your choice.

Cowardice, Hypocrisy, Professionalism and the Death of Pride

Lewis Black; a man who constantly slams the government and important political notables, was asked to perform for the Congressional Correspondent’s Dinner; one of the two biggest social/political events held in Washington DC every year and attended by some of the biggest names in politics. Lewis Black's performances are usually full profanity, opinions about political screw ups, and nostalgic moments of a more American America. Lewis was told that he couldn't swear, couldn't bash the President (who was scheduled to attend), and needed to make the performance palatable to the DC, right-wing, pro-christian audience (Lewis is Jewish). After considering it and getting advice about it Lewis decided to take the job and do his act after modifying it heavily. I believe that must have been monumentally difficult for a man who punctuates sentences with the word fuck and rants nearly psychotically about politics and politicians. I have to commend that because it really does say something to care about your audience, as a performer, to drastically change your act so that they can enjoy it. That shows Professionalism; to judge your customers and make sacrifices to make them happy.

I would like to say that I also feel that given his normal material that he is a coward for not going on with his normal act. He had an opportunity to tell them, in the way he tells thousands of others, that he is angry with the decisions they make. He had the floor and instead of sticking to what he believes he rolled over and changed his act to please the very people he hates. That’s cowardice. It’s hypocritical. It’s shameful.

The only reason that I can’t say that I think Lewis ought to be beat black and blue with his own belt is that I don’t know if I would have had the strength to practice what I preach. I would like to think that I would have told the coordinator that called me that there was no way I was going to sacrifice my integrity to pander to a bunch of self-important assholes. I would like to think I would have happily accepted the job with the forewarning that I was going to do my act the way I wanted and that, since the President was going to be sitting right next to me, I would be telling him to his face in front of all the Congressional Correspondents exactly what I thought of him.

I would like to think that I would stand up for my beliefs and that if they foolishly gave me the floor I would use it to do what I always do when the opportunity arises; express myself. But I don’t know. I’ve never had my beliefs tested that thoroughly. I can’t say what I would do in that exact situation because that would be the hardest test of my life, but I can say that Lewis Black failed.

Lewis, you're still funny, but you are a hypocritical coward.