Friday, January 28, 2011

powering up the smoke

life is too motherfucking short to give myself a bunch of grief for not posting here since 23 october 2010. apparently, i had nothing of importance to share. or perhaps my view of the world in general and my fellow americans in particular has gone just sideways enough that i *had* to vent about it, lest i go postal. 


oh how i wish there had been wikileaks, twitter and foursquare and cheap cell phones, and a president with half a brain 10 years ago. it would have been cheaper to supply the entire third world a cell phone and provide service for them AND invent wikileaks than it has been to prosecute our various adventures in the middle east and south asia. 


these tweeting revolutionaries have my most mad props. courageous AND clever. i have to give it up. i've been of the mind that we as americans are well overdue for a revolt. not in the teabagger sense, because i don't think we pay enough taxes. i don't think it's our damn business to be mixing it up over oil and other natural resources. we should be inventing (or perfecting) the next thing that will power up the smoke in our front-loading washing machines and iPhone(tm) chargers and flat irons. we should be taking care of our people the way we tell the rest of the world to.


i think i need all the rights a bunch of scared motherfuckers gave up for me a little over nine years ago back! i also need to stop hearing about how bad-ass the economy is because the dow jones is at 12,000 and that the economic downturn the whole world has suffered couldn't be foreseen. look, i have zero (i mean bupkes!) background in economics, but i knew it was coming! i heard some talking head on nice polite republicans this morning talking about how there was no way to see any of it coming. he also said that we're experiencing actual growth in our economy. i'll believe it when the unemployment rate in the state of california isn't 12.4%. 


i don't know that washington should be the only city that gets marched into. the lower part of manhattan and fairfield county, connecticut have a lot to answer for as well. speculation is going to be the cause of perhaps millions of people not being able to afford to eat. according to capitalism, things that are plentiful are not supposed to be expensive. there's enough wheat and corn. but people hedging about their future availability and ordering more of something than will actually be available to make it look scarce isn't fucking capitalism if that's the case. it's fucking fraud, and criminal if for no other reason. also, if you (as a company or a fund) cannot take actual physical delivery of a commodity, you should not be allowed to speculate in its futures market. 


i'm not exactly a communist, or a socialist. but i am no capitalist or fascist, and for that forever grateful.