Weekend Update

ONE.

Okay, this rain. I’m not going to make ark references or anything that silly.

I remember as a kid in this area we used to have one of these 3 days of straight rain things once every summer. The rivers flooded. It was good for diving off bridges and floating on inner-tubes in the polluted but conveniently located Ramapo River.

I like record breaking rain. Now, question is---why don’t we keep our rivers clean and then when all this rain happens, we can gather up all this extra water and pipe it down south where they need it? And vice versa?

Or those crazy spring rains in the Midwest. Why is that water not collected and saved for a non-rainy day?

TWO
I have what can only be described as a life destroying tooth ache. I think a little root canal is in my near future. Though, pain is interesting. It is awful, but its relief (currently in the form of large quantities of ibuprofen) is something that brings forth gratitude.

THREE
These Republicans. Will they endlessly say the same shit until the end of time? Only more so and louder and with more God in it? Did any of them learn anything from Bush’s profligate, destructive ways? WHY ARE THEY COMPLETELY NON-CREATIVE?

FOUR
Something about the complete decimation of an economy mixed with nothing that great on the horizon is enough to make one take to the gas pipe. But instead, we hole up with friends and family and find what is good and true. Not too much distraction in a society of poverty. Just, kicking those tubers out the ground with raw bloody feet so there is something to eat. Filtering water so it is drinkable. Doing a little bookkeeping to make sure there is enough money for fruit and the occasional visit to other friends. I say, let it get worse. Let it get so bad that people will finally understand that the collective (in education, physical infrastructure and health care, please) is the way to sanity. Friends, these corporations use our country as resource rape and a dumping ground. Rightie friends, why do you believe in them more than in government? I do not understand. (Of course, in China, the government and the business is all the same. They rape and dump, too. Perhaps all power rapes and dumps? Why?)

FIVE
I bought a plant for my fish. Oxygen is the way to go.