There are lots of bad people in this world. There are just as many good people. We just hear more about the bad people. The social responsible reason for that is muckraking. But with all the stuff you hear about bad people, it makes you start to wonder if there are that many good people left. How about using a "feel-good" story to show how to improve one's community? Maybe just show how "easy" it is. Anyone can do it. You don't have to be hippie Harry or protest Pete.

When I first saw the Vote or Die slogan, it was in a comic strip so I didn't believe it was real at first. Very different from something you might hear elsewhere: "Vote and Die!"

BTW. Not voting is EXACTLY what that establishment you despise so much wants you to do. You don't want to help them, do you? By not voting, you are keeping them in power.

I have yet another idea for a television show that will never air. Random acts of kindness. Depicting people volunteering and stuff and how you can participate as well or something.

I guess this is the place where people put /end rant or some such nonsense. As the rant won't stop for a long time, I guess that doesn't fit there.

SimLookingGlass at a Presidential Sandcastle (huh?)

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(I was going to put ™ next to every little thing I could think of in the above ad but apparently SimWindow is some kind of graphical user interface widget or something.)

“If you believe in me, I’ll believe in you.”

• the Unicorn

Through the Looking Glass
By Lewis Carroll

Just think of it in terms of believing in a person’s ability to succeed. It gives it a whole new meaning different from the one Carroll may have originally intended.  The golden rule applied to fath in other people.

Are Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass allegories?  There’s even a reference to it in Dogma about the Walrus and the Carpenter.  


President’s terms are sandcastles.  Some sand castles are a lot bigger than others and can stand the tide – at least for a while.  But none are permanent.  The tide wears away at the sand of all presidential legacies.

latest poem

I know you thought I stopped writing poetry, but I never completely stopped. I just went really slowly.

I have never been alive
I do not konw the joy of dancing
I do not live this thing called life
I have never been in love
I do not know the joy of driving
I have never liked the wine
nor lived a life divine
I have never lived
and chances are
I never will

Pretty sad and pathetic I guess, but I'm not exactly enjoying my life at the moment. Not much to live for either. Don't worry - suicide was never and still is never an option. I leave the possibility that I will experience such things up to the reader, but I see it all as unlikely simply based on past experience. I am preventing myself from enjoying life, but why?