This is Monday April
29, 2013. Remember that “Awakenings”
movie Dr. Levy showed about a year ago about a miracle cure called L-Dopa that
allowed patients in confined to hospital beds to rise up from their vegetative
state and sing and dance, and go outside and reestablish old social friendships. But it was only to find that the effect of
the drug was only temporary. This really
happened in 1969 they claim. You see I had
already written the end of this movie because I decided I’d leave before it was
over. I figured it would be kind of a “Forest
Gump” type ending with going on all the TV talk shows and being interviewed by
the news reporters, and going before congress to get the FDA to approve this
drug as soon as possible. It was just
five and a half days ago I thought my crisis with the phone company was
ended. But there Sarah was with a piece
of mail. “Bad news at my doorstep” to
quote from a song lyric. The phone bill
had arrived with “all deliberate speed” since it usually doesn’t come till the
2nd or 3rd of the next month. Every bill I’ve gotten from A T & T has
gone up in consistent increments of three dollars every month since February
and now stands at $54.54. Sometimes life
is that song called “Here We Go Again”.
You can go ditto for Randy Rhodes.
After her seeming “enlightenment’ last week and despite my almost
exhaustive explanations why war preparedness with Assad was absolutely
essential- - now Randy is going back into that same old song and dance, comparing
this conflict with that of Iraq - - when I took pains to show how utterly
little in common this case was. Saddam’s
country was at peace- - and the UN inspectors were doing their job- and there
was some degree of religious tolerance even for Jews and Christians. Also Iraq stood as an essential buffer to
Iran which is gone now. None of this is
true about Syria. Otherwise we had
meatballs and tomato sauce for dinner with rice and broccoli and I mixed the
rice with the sauce. Laura started on
our side with seconds of the meatballs and sauce and broccoli. We had raspberry ice cream for dessert. Glen made good on his promise to give me
coffee after dinner and gave me two packet like things of Folgiers of the same
type I’ve been using with the Starbuchs.
It isn’t as good but it’ll do. I’ve
been bleeding from my right ear. There
is this one spot every time I rub it - - it bleeds. Now the first official gay NBA athlete has “come
out”. We’re going to be hearing a whole
lot of stories like this. This is the
first time an active player in the NBA has “come out”. He is a Black center- and I guess right now
he’s confident.
I was talking with
Marsha the other evening about my view on State Sovreignty. You know Rand Paul got one applause line at
Howard University last week when he hit upon one topic of relevance to Black
people. And this their disperportionate
conviction and imprisonment rates for non violent drug offences. And it’s true, of course. Being hassled by “the man” is an occupational
hazard of being Black, and not just in the ghetto but even un upscale areas, as
testimony from radio callers indicates.
But I said I’d turn all of that stuff over to the states. Not just marijuana laws but laws regarding
alcohol consumption too. Why do we need
a .08 intoxication level that is so restrictive that Al Michaels was right on
the line at .08 and yet he too got arrested.
Back when I was in drivers ed they had just lowered the level from .15%
to .10%. But like blood pressure,
cholesterol levels and VMI and God knows what else- - there is this ever
consuming fettish to ‘go lower”. I
myself have certain neurological problems that would preclude my passing these
sobriety tests of cops – even sober. I
don’t think people realize how little alcohol consumption it takes to get to a
.08%. And I would also turn over laws
on other things such as abortion laws and regulations whether or not to have
gay marriage over to the States. For
that matter I think this “No Child Left Behind” stuff is a case of trying to
micro-manage a situation that is inherently best dealt with locally. The libertarian’s point is well taken that
there is this straight jacket of federal regulations- - even things like
minimum wage laws- where obviously there is a wide disparity of economies and
cultures throughout the states. But
Marsha took exception to my abortion remark and she was looking at me like I’d
just stepped in doo-doo or something.
This area of abortion is one area where we will not agree.
You know, sometimes you
have to ask yourself things like “What if you win?” Let’s just suppose for a moment everything on
the Soap Opera I’m watching breaks the “gay” way, if you know what I mean. So it could be that it proved three prominent
families can team together to bring down one ex con who had few friends but was
trying to make something of himself.
Excuse me if I don’t pop the champaign.
Will it really be such a sweet victory to now be divorced with a now
disgraced husband - - perhaps plagued with legal expenses- - and a new born baby
girl fathered by a gay man who’s best character recommendation is that he’s a
professional flake whose never excelled at anything. I’m thinking “Can’t these people find some
other way of getting their rocks off?
Are they really that small???”
Apparently they are. It would be
funny that if it turned out that Nick Fallon’s truest friend was not his wife,
but the ex con who was threatening to murder him a few short weeks ago. If I were Nick I wouldn’t let him down,
because I’d know I need a friend about now.
If you were to take this whole case to a judge he’d be incredulous. He might grant an annulment on the grounds
that “It was never a marriage” because Gabriel was always, whether she even
knew it or not, more emotionally bonded to the gay father of her child, than
her husband, who pays the bills. In fact
in the old days if you were searching for grounds for divorce I would wish
there was somewhere to check off a category called “Worse than Adultry”. Were I Nick I would far prefer it were adultery
than the actual case, because believe me this is a far Worse treachery than adultery
would be. Lucas disgusts me. He’s such a Di Mira sell out. He’s turned out to be such an unprincipled
whoos that if Stephano demanded Lucas give him a blow job- - Lucas would comply
the minute Stephano said “It’ll make your son happy”. Lucas would only say, I hope you have a soft
rug”.
David Cruise was
talking about how Wall Mart and Taco Bell and Mac Donald’s and Target and other
such corporations are screwing their employees by cutting back their employment
hours so they don’t qualify for medical coverage. This is hardly news. I’ve been hearing this sort of stuff the past
couple of years. I don’t know whether
the tea party will exploit this news as another reason why Obama Care is no
good. As you know I think unquestionably
the Affordable Care act was the singularly Worst blunder of his first term- -
and it was a mistake that cast a long shadow and the president has paid a high price
for. Then there are all of the LAPD
officers who were fired because they were whistle blowers like that Dorner
guy. Here is another thing everybody
knows. If someone tells you “Yes I’m
really concerned about this problem.
Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Action will be taken immediately”. And you know in your gut from prior experience
that absolutely nothing is going to be done about it.
There
was an old commercial that raised Moe Kelly's hackles last week, and I
guess the whole premise of the thing has kind of bothered me too, for a
long time. This idea of going up to kids whom you don't know and have
no occasion to talk to - - and just pelting them with questions - -
picking their brains, or what have you. If you hear this Rodney Allan
Rippy commercial without the picture- - the dialog does some off as a
bit - - dare I say it - - queer, as in strange. I never liked Art
Linkletter's house party as a kid, and I guess they have books of "Kids
say the darndest things". But have you ever noted that many groups let
other people define them. For instance black people are portrayed by
"Black face" actors. And even the song "Dixie" was a song in a musical
of, by, and for northerners. People engage in this plastic
"sentamentality" and call it real emotion. And there are so many adults
who emote about "the wonders and innocence of child hood". They like
children all right. As some kind of a blow up doll who makes all these
"cute' little nieve and innocent remarks that adults love to snicker
at. I'll even take issue with Jesus Christ on this one. When he says
"become as children" he doesn't mean it. Children after all are
curious, and want to expand their minds. Children see how far they can
go breaking the rules and crossing lines adults set for them. And when a
children finds out he's been lied to about some fairy story or another-
- - sometimes they get mad. Sometimes adults bullshit children
thinking "Oh they're too dumb to know the difference". And as I noted a
while back- - sometimes when an adult says "That's not a reason; that's
an excuse" the exact opposite is true. It IS a reason. But they don't
WANT a reason. Sometimes I've wondering watching some exchanges- -
whether adults get off in putting their kids in humiliating situation
which there is no way for them to win. Sometimes a child will have what
I call an astute intelligent response - - that would be respected if
coming from an adult's lips, but coming from a child - - or dare I say -
- a Negro in the old South, the remark is instant cause for offense.
Jesus Christ occasionally liked
to "smart ass" people in governmental authority, when he really wasn't
saying anything wrong, but their guilty consciences still convicted
them. (Selah)
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