This place was created near the end of the twentieth century just for the heck of it..
Monday, May 7, 2001
This weekend I did a little work re-commissioning my small boat, Folly. Not a lot, but then it's still early times. It was calming. Then this morning my newspaper had this opinion piece which not only got me mad, but made me think about a lot of other stuff that gets me mad. The parts of the river that would ( and probably will ) be despoiled by the arrogance of these rich fools are ..........
And speaking of arrogance.
Thursday, May 3, 2001
So it's May 3rd, the day the eagle flies and millions of Social Security checks and deposits happen. And then this happens too. The beginning of the end of Social Security if the wackos like these guys and these guys get their way. And this bunch of nearly dead guys, extremists, and patsies (along with a crook or two)will do their best to give the wackos of the extreme right one of their prime objectives when they took the jerky little guy and made him President.
They will get their other prime objective too unless the Democrats muster some real nerve.
All the other stuff, taxes, spending, star wars two, faith based baloney, dignity, sabre rattling, nicknames and phoney niceness are merely silly little diversions so that the extremists can get rid of SS and get the courts so loaded with sympathizers that anything else they do will be declared legal.
I know this as sure as I am sitting here.
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Well, May 1st, Mayday came and went and I missed it. A friend recently moved back to somewhere in California, Stockton where ever that is, and I sent him a small note written on an old fashioned penny postal card. Oh I know they are now 20cents, but they are still one of the great bargains in actual written mail. Anyway, this guy is a Mayday celebrator. Not some druid or new-ager, just an old fashioned socialist, maybe even a marksist sort of guy. So he got my card, called me up---for the life of me I don't know whay he called instead of writing. This was yesterday and I forgot completely about mayday. Come to think of it, that's probably why he called. I always used to acknowledge his penchant for the day and I blew it. I am chagrined.
It still is a new month though and there is other stuff going on. This is the kind of justice I can believe in. Not swift, but justice nevertheless.This story about an older act of vengence in the name of justice is amazing. I suppose NPR's objective is to make a strong statement about the near public execution of McVeigh, but I am not sure it won't backfire.
And while I tried in vain to find Molly Ivins column that I saw in my morning paper today to link to here, I will substitute this one from The Nation as a summary of the Bush days to date. The Ivins column was funnier. Maybe it will show up in her index later.