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Want to Feel Sick?
Here’s a cued up portion (9:00 for mac users) of one of the videos Bradley Manning is on trial for turning over to Wikileaks. He’s already been locked up since May 26, 2010, his right to a speedy trial notwithstanding, facing a death sentence under the 1917 Espionage Act. My father is shaking his head in his grave, uttering his famous “doesn’t it make you glad to be an American?”
NYC Summer makes an appearance
Hot, yes, but also humid as just inside an elephant’s asshole. Take a shower and feel your skin a moment later– clammy. The sinuses fill with some kind of pressurized liquid, a dullness behind the eyes. Dog piss steaming up from the concrete.
Not enough coffee in the apartment to wake myself up today. Going to go for a strong Dominican cafe negro, if I can summon the strength.
Be the rain, the soil, the sun, the plant
If the sun doesn’t shine, be the sun. Likewise, the plants who will not grow without water need rain, so be the rain. You know they like nutrients from the ground, so, if you wouldn’t mind, provide the soil, would you? And the plant itself, if you’d be so kind.
If you would be so fucking kind.
Two minute drill
If no consequence is attached to evil practices such practices will continue. If you don’t raise an eyebrow when your predecessor redefines torture to allow it to be practiced at will, nobody should be surprised when you do the same. If you find remote control killings of enemies and innocent alike preferable to boots on the ground, you’ll do it. If you’re cool with a government that prosecutes whistle blowers and tries them in secret, well, you’re cool with it. It doesn’t make you a bad person, necessarily, to wink at evil, but don’t put your arm around me, brother.
Ahimsa in Practice
The cells in your body, flooded with persuasive chemicals, will tell you clearly to kick somebody’s ass. There are many who are adept at making these chemicals flow like a waterfall.
Your soul will thank you if you unclench your fist, make your hand soft, and do something productive, instead of kicking the ass of someone who is begging for, and richly deserves, an ass-whuppin’.
Best to avoid these types altogether, if you can. If you can’t, practice effective action to neutralize them. They can sometimes actually be made to disappear, depending on your level of skill.
Practice.
The Best Friend To Have
is probably one who can silence the noise in her head while you are talking about something that troubles or amuses you.
What I sent her instead
Well, you know what they say about statistics, particularly when spun by partisans like this NRA speaker. If you throw in every third world sink-hole, countries in poverty with violent gangs, repressive governments, a lot of guns and low value on human life, yes, the US looks relatively OK.
Compared to other wealthy nations, not so good, as a glance at the attached chart compiled by the UN will show you.
Gratitude Check
Time to be grateful again. Easy to forget that, when health is good, the legs are strong, the will is there, fear doesn’t have its sweaty hand on your chest at the end of a quivering, demonically strong arm.
But I remember it now, remember to be glad, and grateful, and tick off the list in my head as I tap these keys. Near the top of the list I am grateful at how often I remain mild these days, certainly compared to days past.
Certainly compared to those days, for sure.
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