We still have another light blog to go before we get to the dark "Cosmic Tides". Not that I'm saying that the Cosmic Tides are dark or anything. I still don't know what "dark matter" is. I would presume it's just masses of asteroids that somehow haven't yet clustered together, which one would suppose, because of gravitational attraction. To say that is "some kind of matter that's never been seen before" would seem to me to be a premature assesment. While I'm on the topic I'd like to mention these Crop Circles that broke out in the summer of 1990. I just went to a site that "reveals secrets" and they said that two guys confessed to doing all the crop circles themselves in 1991. I have reason to doubt this. First of all the crop circles didn't stop. They polifferated all over Europe and America and there are hundreds of them, each in increasingly complex geometric patterns. I would like to revert to an argument the Creationists use. How come nobody has seen these people who opperate stealthfully by night in open fields without trees. More importantly how is it some Yahoo who goes to an instructional internet site, can pull off such elaborate geometric patterns and do so Perfectly. I know Mozart wrote music like "taking dictation", but this isn't how unusual things normally happen. For every crop circle you see there should be ten times as many botched attempts and abandoned efforts. Where are They? I know that they say Christ rose from the dead because "Nobody SAW any disciples stealing his body out of the tomb by night, but how far can you take a negative? Yeah, they may get away with it once or twice, but not hundreds of incidents over years. People from the Federation tell me that those two people who confessed in 1991 are full of bunk, and that they were obviously Told by somebody to confess and take the heat off. To my way of thinking it takes more Faith to believe rank amateurs did it rather than Space Aliens.
Today President Obama signed the Wall Street reform bill into law. Republicans say this is a horrible thing because "one way or another consumers will live to regret this day". I am not insensitive to the arguments from the right. Sean Hannity was saying "People know my heart. They know I'm not as I'm depicted by all the pundets". I don't pick on Sean Hannity because I don't pick on most people of the Right but let them go their way. Some of the things Glen Beck says are pretty far out. For instance that we will develop runaway hyper inflation like the Vymar republic and this is being done deliberately to "Crash" the economy so that some dictator can take over this country. People have the right to be stupid. But I only get on someone's case if they are saying some really asshole, uninformed remark about some issue that I have a personal interest in. Then I'll get on their case, as you know. I don't like Dr. Levy saying the people accused of crimes in Guantanamo Bay should be left to rot in prison and Never given a trial. Nobody likes to be accused of something they had nothing to do with and have a cloud of doubt hanging over them and following them around. Sometimes I do resort as Hannidy claims, to saying certain people on the Right are "Evil". This is certainly true of "The Asshole from El Paso". There was a republican congressman on C-Span a few days ago giving a speech on the economy at length and he said some stuff worth thinking about. He spoke of "stealing" Chrysler and GM by the US Government and "wrenching the securities out of the creditors hands". OK, maybe next time when I'm President, we'll let them go under. I don't have a problem with that. But he says that true wealth comes "from the Land". It reminded me of the English and Spanish explorers plundering the land and wiping out New World civilizations all in the name of their Christian god. So Thom Hartman says we should coin a new word, "Christianists". After all, everything with an -IST ending is supposed to be bad, isn't it. How about a Pure-ist? He says that everything we value most like food, and the crops we make our clothes out of, as well as the timber and stone we build with and the minerals we mine to produce all other things- - all starts with the land. And I'm not insensitive to the idea that Kaynes may be wrong about a thing or two. For instance his statement about hiring twenty men to dig ditches and the next day hiring twenty more to fill them. This guy from Iowa spoke of a mine where the Government has secreted cash away and he's hiring people to mine it. But first the government fills up the mine with garbage. So first you have to dig through the garbage and get their wheel barrels and rail cars and whatever. But then people get sick from handeling the garbage and so you have to hire health care workers. Robert Kennedy alledgedly gave a speech during his 1968 Presidential Campaign where he said "The gross national product isn't everything. It doesn't measure the vast air and water pollution, or the ravages of war, or all the construction of new prisons. Prisons raise the GNP. He said that the GNP doesn't measure the smile of a happy child, or the joy of a wedding celebration, or the pride that a parent feels upon the graduation or their son or daughter from a college. Wealth isn't everything. But Randy Rhodes pointed out by way of ballance that economic strife can take it's toll. Mel Gibson flies into tyrades against women, but Randy asks how often is this very scene played out in homes all over America where the provider has lost his job. I've heard that the greatest number of divorces come not from Adultry or sexual incompatability or all this psychological "growing apart" stuff. (I'm not saying this is how I feel, it's what THEY say) No. The greatest number of divorces comes from pocket book issues. Economic strife and various pressures to make ends meet. To not extend unemployment benefits is to be against family values. Dr. Levy can say money isn't of value, but the rest of us have other ideas. If there ARE any lazy ones out there not looking for a job, this will only provide more jobs for those of us who ARE looking earnestly for a job.
On the personal front I got an almost new TV last night, so I am a happy camper today. Last night I had a dream where I was employed by a TV writing team writing a soap opera script or something. These people were from Eastern colleges, but I think it was New Jersey rather than New England. And most of this team was gay and they supposed everybody was. But some of us had our eye on this cute blonde working there. And in the script there was a character who resembled the blonde and her romantic adventures. But I was fiddling with my scanner because I had never worked officially with one before, scaning pages into my office desk top computer. And people were saying to me "Look what our heroin is up to today on the next page?"
I would like to talk just a little more about Lennon compositions. Strawberry Fields Forever could refer to the strawberry field I walked past every day on my way to school. Lennon was obviously dating in "Good Morning" because of the line "Go to a show, you hope she goes", and when the song came out I had just gotten a new girlfriend. Also you snail mail people know that "A Day in the Life" was about the death of John Sneed and Ron Diggins, who died in a car trying to outrun a train on March 5th 1967. Of course the song they say was written in January of 1967 based on some newspaper article. Also if you've listened to the lyrics of Lucy in the Sky, it can't be anything other than an LSD trip. You Ziggy fans will note there are several songs about Robin including "Simply Shady" (which now they say was NOT about Eric Claptins affair with his wife, Patty Boyd) Rather it's about the Maharishi. It could be about an affair Robin had had. (But it wasn't with Philip Kiriacus) "Cool, Calm, Collected" and "Killer Queen" are two more songs alledgedly about Robin. And of course "Ticket to Ride" isn't about Hamburg prostitutes, or a city in England called "Ride" but rather about astral projection where the "He" is just changed to "She". That's my take on the song. It was the Beatles' first single after "the transfer".
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