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July 19, 2004:
Another First in American Medicine:
ABC 12 News. We now have a drug to cure compulsive shopping.
It's called Tellexo or some such name. They said it so fast I'm
not sure. Ain't science wonder? We have a pill for everything.
Perhaps someday we will have a pill for happiness. Everyone could
take one and the whole world will die happy.
Posh Prisons:
I saw it on the news. Poor Martha may have to go to a regular
prison because all of the posh prisons are full. Ain't that sad?
Poor Martha. Poor, poor Eliza.
If it were up to me, there would be no posh prisons. All time
would be hard time. Convicted criminals would be treated as criminals,
not privileged guests of the state.
Smut on the Internet:
George wanted laws to get rid of it. The laws he wanted would
not just get rid of it, they would prevent honest dialog on sexuality.
The Supreme Court said no. These guys are starting to confuse
me. The are no longer whole-hog supporting the right wing madness.
Perhaps there is hope for them yet.
As to smut on the internet, it is not the government's job
to protect the kids from that. That responsibility belongs to
the parents. If we make the government responsible, we give them
the power to decide what smut is. I sure don't want a right wind
madman deciding that for my grandkids. That decision belongs
in the home, not in Washington. It is no different than the library.
We don't let our kids go alone, we go with them. On the internet,
the parent must be there as monitor until the parent's ethic
becomes normal to the child. Only the parent can decide when
that has happened.
Website:
If I had to rank corporate websites from incredibly stupid (1)to
outstandingly useful (10), Hewlett Packard would get a 1. Canon
would get a 2. Xerox would get a 7 or 8. Gateway also gets a
1. The last time I tried to use Microsoft's website, I gave it
a minus 5. I have not tried in years. Perhaps it has got better.
I would be surprised.
Xerox cannot get a 10 because they also make the classic dumb
assumption that everyone has high speed internet access. They
overload us with irrelevant self-congratulating slow-loading
graphics. If you want to jerk me around, that's one way to do
it. The truth is, more than half of us still use dial up modems
over regular phone lines. The highspeed assumption is jut one
problem. I think the biggest cause of my contempt is the general
attitude toward the customers. It can be summed up as, "Our
way or no way."
Cosby:
His point does not just apply to black people. Our whole culture
is deeply into the who-can-I-blame-game. It's the fat kid who
wants to blame McDonald for his lard-ass and the hotdog punk
who crashed his SUV and wants to blame Ford. Everyone plays that
game and we all lose. The only ones who gain are the lawyers.
Cuban Cigars:
I guess I will never be able to smoke them. King George is at
it again. The cold war is over but Bush goes on. He is separating
families for what amounts to vote pandering. He is still allowing
a handful of rabid Cuban expatriates to determine American foreign
policy.
Cialis:
Mrs. Gaffer made the point that she would never interrupt her
violin practice for a quickie. I would just have to wait my turn,
perhaps for as long as 36 hours.
Kinkade:
My God! What fools these rabble be. It's a shame I have ethics.
I could make a huge fortune conning these rabble fools. I could
do even better than Kinkade making warm fuzzies for the masses
of asses, but I can't bring myself to do it. On the other hand,
I don't care what happens to Kinkade or to his victims. He is
a journeyman con-man and these fools sit up and beg to be conned.
They deserve it.
Boycott the New York Times:
They conned or bribed the city of New York into stealing another
person's property and giving it to them to build their new office
building. The city went along. I wonder how much it cost? Honestly,
let's boycott those arrogant B******S.
Ungrateful Kids:
We say our kids are ungrateful. Well, why should they be anything
else? What have we done for them? Some of us did our duty as
best we could. What do they owe us for that? They did not create
the responsibility, we did! What have we done special for them?
Nothing! On the contrary, we have screwed up their world pretty
completely. We have wallowing profiteers destroying their wilderness.
We have used up most of their natural resources, pissing them
away in stupid wars. We have numbed their brains with a neanderthal
educational system. We have tried to make them just like us as
though that were a good thing. What do they owe us? We have not
thought about our kids at all. In our enormous selfishness we
have thought of nothing but ourselves. They owe us nothing. I
feel lucky that so far they have not taken us out and shot us.
They continue to let us breath and eat.
Spider-man II:
The movie broke box office records while the Detroit Symphony
orchestra remains just one step ahead of bankruptcy. What a wonderfully
sophisticated culture we live in. A comic book culture. Grand,
just grand!
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