BRAINS!!!

As we take a shambling lurch toward my favorite holiday, a little gore flecked reading is in order. I suggest World War Z by Max Brooks, a surprisingly serious and well written take on the whole flesh eating corpse genere.

A Few Carefully Chosen Words

Great political and social change in this country is greeted with suspicion, distrust, and often, downright hatred. The New Deal was a communist plot, Civil Rights legislation was socialist, Martin Luther King was an enemy of the state. Geoff Nunberg's commentary today on NPR's Fresh Air confirms what I have often thought about the current state of political discourse in this country.
Call it what you want but progress is coming regardless of what our reactionary friends on the right want us to believe.

ONLY 7 MORE DAYS....

Nervous? Who me? Well, maybe a little. Everyone must vote because this thing is not over yet.
Can you imagine a president that doesn't make you cringe? Who knows what he is talking about and who has the respect of his peers around the world? I can.

7 1/2 Habits of note

I will have the most trouble with Habit #3:
View problems as challenges. Everyday life is "challenging" enough as it is.

On the flip side, I plan to continue following Habit #6:
Use technology to your advantage. I like to think that advances in technology can be used as tools to make life easier and more fulfilling. What would we do without our DVR's and text messaging?

Than a frontal lobotomy

Death to all conservatives, (or at least a really painful itch). Not to be derivative but a change is a comin' and you best get on the train or get run over.