July 05, 2007

A rumination at my desk

OK… Fair enough: Six months is a long time to go without writing. I have been on a hiatus from daily ruminations. Life is good, but I’ve been busy getting my feet back under me. I realized that it has been this long when I tried to make a post on YouTube only to learn that my ‘blog had fallen into the nether world of ignored internet sites. Even now I am certain that I am the only person reading these words. Still, it was once well read and it began with one person reading it. So what can happen once can happen again…
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The United States has won the world’s record for speed eating. This is a competition that can only be waged by a nation or nations that are not only consumerist in their orientation, but have enough food to waste in such trivial pursuits. I kept wondering about people starving in this country. I’ve seen enough overweight homeless people to know that not all that lack shelter lack food; but there is extreme poverty in this country and poverty that goes to the point of being obscene in the world. Are there not famines enough to make one take a moment’s pause and wonder about the sheer decadent excess of such a thing?

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Scooter Libby has had a commutation of his sentence. Bushy-boy apparently thought that his family had suffered enough and that it was an excessive sentence for having participated in the lies and prevarications that led to the Iraq war. Out an operative of our intelligence community for political aims and look forward to a commutation and a potential pardon. What about all of the people that were executed under Bush’s administration when he was the Governor of Texas? I suppose that their pain was not really the point. They might have killed one or two people. Kill the fuckers…. To hell with the pain their families feel. If you are to be pardoned you have to contribute to the terror that is war waged on the basis of a lie: make no mistake, our President bears responsibility for the deaths of over 3,000 American soldiers, to say nothing of soldiers from the “coalition of the willing” and those Iraqis that have lost their lives. But Lewis Libby has a cool nickname that makes him sound like a kid with freckles, a missing front tooth, in a baseball cap, riding a skateboard… There is Americana in that name. So what the hell… (read these last few lines with a voice dripping with sarcasm).
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I’ve been playing the acoustic bass lately. I got an upright and am relearning my instrument. All of those low rumbles in Ventura are probably me making horrid noises with an instrument that is as tall as I am and equally wide. My cat loves to come in when I practice: he meows in Bb and has perfect pitch.

More later, and sooner…