LEAVE IT TO PEEVER
Weenie or Warrior?
— Bumper sticker of
the week: DonÕt believe everything you think.
— Quotes of the week:
ÒIÕm feeling like Tonto, riding a pinto, trying to chase the Lone Ranger down.Ó
ÒSave a horse, ride a
cowboy.Ó
Ò'Cause I ainÕt nowhere, if
I canÕt be somewhere with you. IÕm just sitting her thinkin', sitting here
drinkin' 'bout you.Ó Big and Rich
— Gonna live out
loud: This ainÕt the time to be sitting back holding your tongue. We are on the
verge of becoming a right-wing, isolationist, fearful, dictatorial, theocratic,
second world power. It is time to let our voices be heard. Now is the time to
demand our individual rights, to put corporate America in its place, to demand
our troops be returned home, to call for a government for us, not against us.
It is time to change the playing field. The game has almost passed us by.
— Are you a weenie or
a warrior?
¥ Do you let others do your thinking
for you? Weenie.
¥ Do you stand up and say what is in
your heart? Warrior.
¥ Do you kill from a distance?
Weenie.
¥ Are you willing to make an effort
to understand and compromise with your enemies? Warrior.
¥ Is you life guided by ideology and
dogma? Weenie.
¥ Is your life guided by your bliss?
Warrior.
¥ Do you strike out and despise those
who are different from you? Weenie.
¥ Do you stay open-minded and
tolerant of different ideas and lifestyles? Warrior.
¥ Do you allow others to control you
through fear and intimidation? Weenie.
¥ Can you differentiate bullshit from
fact? Warrior.
As the old saying goes: He
that will be a weenie will eventually whine himself to death. The warrior will
one day understand his place among all things, stand with his head held high,
and be able to say, screw you, without any reservation.
— Disguises:
¥ The 4th of July comes as yet
another disguise for freedom, justice, and democracy.
¥ I woke up this morning disguised as
someone who gives a damn.
¥ A pretty woman uses a disguise to
fool old age. A man usually uses a pretty woman.
¥ My golf game is disguised as an
opportunity to rant and rave and cuss like some uncivilized barbarian.
¥ Freedom and justice are often
disguised as a flag and a song.
¥ The rich disguise themselves as
better and more capable than the rest of us.
¥ Many for-profit, money-monger
charities disguise themselves as nonprofit, caring agencies.
¥ The truth disguises itself as
absolute and attainable.
¥ I wore a disguise all day. No-one
noticed.
— Speaking of drugs:
ThereÕs a new drug for every ailment nowadays. The pharmaceutical industry has
become the wizard of the 2lst century. Here are a couple magic potions I would
like to see:
¥ How about a drug to help our
President become smarter?
¥ IÕd like to see a drug that makes a
rich man poor and a poor man rich?
¥ How about a drug that, instead of
making men want to have sex, makes them want to have sense?
¥ A good anti-religion drug would be
good.
¥ ThereÕs a new drug to not make you
pee so much. How about a new drug to not make you talk so much?
¥ HereÕs a good idea: How about a
drug to turn Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts, our rightwing Supreme
Court members, into liberals?
¥ People take drugs to make them feel
better. Whatever happened to Cracker Jacks?