It’s been nearly a year since I’ve posted here. The reasons are varied — mainly a series of bad excuses and an attempt at apathy towards the world – an attempt that I can assure you is futile given the deplorable state of the world, and our country.
So, here it is 02:20 and NWS says it’s 84f — though it feels as if it’s 95, and I am polishing off a bottle of raki – given to me by my boss after his last visit to Greece. If you’ve never had raki, it’s quite the beverage – similar to grappa, but with more of a lighter-fluid after taste.
A few days ago my wife received a visit from her parents – nice people. In their good Midwestern, protestant, way they reminded my wife, who was expressing her dismay at our president, that ‘if you can’t say something nice, you shouldn’t say anything.’ This notion stuck with me, and it reminded me that nothing was ever changed by silence or complicity. Thus, I am here at 02:00. . . .
It is nearly impossible to believe the state of our world today. In the middle east, Israel continues to pummel the people of Lebanon, and our citizens continue to be killed in the ill conceived, pointless, chaos of Iraq. Here at home, our government is worried about cutting taxes for the wealthiest, while opportunities, jobs, and income disappear for the rest of us. Meanwhile the U.S. bastion of international news is running several reoccurring ’special reports’ on the apocalypse. If all of that isn’t enough for you to drink lighter-fluid, I don’t know what is.
