Setting Me Up. Or: Bad Choices and Then Some.

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

‎”If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”– Desmond Tutu

“Just like a broken heart is a reminder that someone loved someone else too much, a hangover is a reminder that there was too much fun had by someone in the company of someone else.” –D.L. Martin

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For Lady Person.

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Welcome to America.  It is a country of great wealth spent by the few made possible by the majority.  We are Capitalism at its finest.  Come see our failing industry and growing police state.

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I live in a land, where the poor grow poorer and the wealthy are given tax cuts.  If you are dirty, stinking rich here, expect your own TV show after you’ve made a porn video.  If you happen to not fall under that category, I hope you like eating shit and dying.  That is what’s expected of you.  Eat shit, feel lucky you have shit to eat, be quiet, and die out of the riches’ sights.

We put the loan sharks out of business and replaced them with credit card companies and banks.

Here is a country that worries about the sanctity of marriage and cream our best pants over celebrities spending millions upon millions of dollars on their wedding day. . . only to divorce a month later.  Hell, we’ll even cream ourselves over other countries’ royal family members getting married.  We are not picky.

This country of mine, the only one I got, has forgotten that we are a proud nation of people descended from intellects, thinkers, and people willing to over throw the government at a moment’s notice.

We thought, we’ve all been living dreams and parties that the Nazis would have thrown if they won the war.  Instead we woke up to the nasty realization of the horrid hangover that the Germans themselves woke up to in 1945.  We have seen the high waters of good times … and all we have left is the water stains on the wall.

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After the events of UC-Davis, I’ve finally realized common decency is extinct.  Linda Katehi, the university’s chancellor, has recently brewed up a witch hunt to cover her own ass after calling the cops on her own students for trespassing on the college’s private property.  The same property the students paid tuition to be on.  Why is she doing this?  Simple. . . wealthy alumni have decided to withhold money.  That’s the thing with this country.  If you want anything done, threaten people with taking money away from them. . . Then see what tune they sing.

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I’d like to consider myself a Tennessean from California living in Ohio.  In all honesty, I’m a mumbler with a fondness of hats and having a new address every couple of months.  And the only life lessons I have learned from having all these hats and new addresses are this: 1) If times get rough, check yourself into a mental institute.  You’ll have a bed, three squares a day, and all the company you will ever need.  And 2) the further away you get, the closer to home you’ll be.

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Two main features keeping this town from becoming a booming metropolis are the lack of good looking singles and a decent Mexican restaurant.  Now these might not seem to be your average notions of pillars of any society, but what the hell, the ones we’ve set into motion aren’t doing so well either.

As Americans, we’ve been given the right to assemble and speak our minds.  Then the government save its own ass by letting it be known that there is a loop hole… We can assemble and protest only as long as it isn’t on private property.  But what isn’t private property these days.  Public parks are private.

This has put our society in a sate of fear.  How do people live in such a state?  By watching television and speaking of our own fears in a darken room.  Our only place of freedom remaining is our front porch swing.  No one has the dreams and ideals of the 60s and 70s anymore.  We learned our place when the military shot 4 protesters on a college campus in May of 71.  Have we learned our lesson, though?  Yes and cookie cutter conservatives dangle it in front of us as a warning for future generations.

That warning is this:  Accept your place and what society has given you, or we have the means to take all that away!

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Ich stehe im Regen und warte auf dich.
Ich warte im Regen und steh’ auf dich.

This is your reporter on the daily banal saying Good Night, Happy Holidays, and Love as always,

Kurt Doonesbury