Another Week Flies By

While I was messing with this computer Wiser Man than I scooped me with the "one in four read no books at all" story. A paragraph that caught my attention which he did not mention went :"Southeners who do read however, (they were the worst region for reading) tend to read more books ,mostly religious books and romance novels, than people from other regions...those who said they never attend religious services read nearly twice as many as those who attend frequently."

I'm not going to read to much into this but suffice to say I am still recovering from the four years I recently spent in N.Carolina. Next to this article (Im reading the Butte Standard) was one which read : Credit Crisis Bush tries to Calm Investors as Fed Bolsters Market with Cash Infusion Market Socialism won't work any better than the Neo-Liberalism they try to force on every poor developing country but at least they could call it what it is in the mainstream press.

Here is a bumper sticker I saw at the grocery store the other day: "Reintroduce Grizzlies They Will Make Good Wolf Bait"

I heard a great talk by Chris Hedges called Christian Totalitarianism in which he de-constructs the right-wing fundamentalists and their destructive effect on our so-called democracy. His assertion that this extremism is born of economic hardship (he cited the burgeoning movement in the rust belt, Ohio in particular) seemed a little dubious. I saw this strain thriving among middle and upper middle class southerners and it has deep roots in parts of the Rocky Mountain west that have had steady economic growth. I see it more as a cultural reaction to modernism but am sure economics play a partially determinate role.

Ill leave you with an original poem: The Weapons of Mass Destruction

The weapons of mass destruction, were in a little house (so white)
It was really hard to find them cause they were in a little house (so bright)
We searched and searched forever, (no light) but we never could forget
the axis was always evil (our plight)
Now I just want to forget.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction, they must be somewhere now
The Weapons of Mass Destruction, we'll never know just how
we lost so many weapons.....