A friend let me borrow the Brian Wilson CD "Smile". Smile? I think "Pile" would be a better name. Holy crap, I think this CD was runner up in the World Trainables Songwriting Competition.

And I also just got the Beatles Anthology DVD set...watched the first DVD today. I don't know why everyone's always hatin on Ringo...as a drummer anyway. His drumming is pretty freakin good - especially for the songs of the early 60's. Besides, I don't think any of the Beatles songs would have been better if he was in there trying to play like Neal Peart (even though NP was but a child at the time...you get the point). People are just haters. If you listen to his interviews now, he's a bit of a pompus windbag, but so are a lot of "stars".

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I finished Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals last night. Gives a radical a lot to think about. A lot of what I've been trying to do is not to organize as Alinsky did...he got folks together to fight the man...I've been trying to get folks to help get rid of the man and replace him with something else. But there were definitely nuggets to use. Some excellent analogies...awesome stuff...

The one about Christianity...Oy Veh! Judeo-Christians never really act as their organized religions tell them to do. So to confront them on behaviors using religious morality doesn't make sense because it's really outside their experience - actually acting like they say they should when in church/temple.

There's good stuff about communication, getting things done, convincing people...that kind of stuff. I'd actually recommend this over Lakoff.

[mature theme alert]

I was listening to the radio the other day...and comedian Patton Oswald was on. They were talking about an old routine of his about gays in the military...he said they should encourage gays in the military because they're tough...they take it up the ass, whereas the homophobes (who are probably just repressing homosexual tendencies) wouldn't let you go near the ole itchy eye. Not a bad point. But hell, let's take that to it's logical conclusion...with that kind of thinking, we should recruit porn stars to form an elite branch of the Marines. A new version of WAC's...Women's Anal Corps. I mean, let's face it...some of those chicks get every hole filled then probably go horseback riding. Tough MF-ers.

It would be like..."What? You have a bomb strapped to you? Big freakin whoop...I just got DPed by Ron Jeremy and some other ugly porn guy. Bring it on!" And boy would they be able to withstand torture. I mean, look at some of those ridiculous porn positions followed by the dumbest thing ever...the facial. Electrodes? Sleep deprivation, loud music & bright lights? Shoot, throw in an enema and that's a day on the set for these chicks. Man, I'm starting to dig this idea...

OK, how 'bout an elite squad of lesbian interrogators. The minute one of them came after me with one of those things that plug into the wall, I'd be talking up a storm. Kitty's been chewin on the cord, Dude. Shove Saddam on a Sybian and see what happens. At least the letters I'd have to write for Amnesty International would be more interesting.

I know I'm gonna get called a hater on this...I just don't care. Sometimes the truth is more important. I remember when this came out. It wasn't a huge story. It just caught my eye. And I googled "lance armstrong divorce" for this and there were a lot of posts that were on religious blogs...I hate Texass.

Actually, I don't want to know the details, it's none of my business...I really mean that. Celebrities who use their relationship status for publicity should not be shot, but ignored. People should just stop buying their records, going to their movies, etc. But we're too freaking stupid and have no lives, so we have to keep reading the tabloids and even local news shows (and don't get me started) report on Jen & Brad. Die...die...die...

But this Lance thing. It's not fair. Lance is God. I watched Letterman today and every time he mentioned LA's name people lost their minds. The press keeps saying how he & that screeching hag, Sheryl Crow make such a good couple. Meanwhile, the mother of Lance's children...Kristen...that angel...is left alone to deal with the kids. It's not right, I tell you.

I don't usually use this blog to address individual people, but I feel an injustice is being done, so...

Kristen,

It's not you, it's him. I know, that's a cliche, but come on...in this case, it's really obvious. Like Cynthia Lennon, her husband rode to fame as you raised the family, then when rock star status was achieved...good bye, wifey. Yeah, he rides a bike real good, but that's over. He's going to be a politician now. Because he can ride a bike? I can ride a bike and MF-er's won't vote for me.



Kristen, all I'm saying is that I'm here for you. And if you need someone I am definitely your man. I listen, I'm sensitive and even when I fall madly in love with you and you feel nothing for me, I continue to stick around and do whatever you ask of me. We don't have to have sex. Oh sure, I'll want to, but I'll understand when you tell me that you wouldn't want it to mess up our friendship, or you think of me as a brother, or you're focusing on your career. I'm the guy who will boost your self-esteem so you can move on to hook up with countless of other guys who don't deserve you like I do. No, I don't know what transference is. Call me.

I've been having the hardest time posting lately. It would just be a huge webjournal. Mostly personal stuff on my mind. But something did catch my attention today.

A lot of so-called lefties in New York State have decided that Elliot Spitzer's doody doesn't stink. Well, there's a little funk there. You know you screwed up when hometown facist Steve Minarik calls you out...and is right.

Spitzer is known as being a dynamo state Attorney General. Um...maybe. But I do happen to know that his office said that ES will not be going after any environmental cases now that he's running for governor. I don't trust the guy. Come on, Bro...

That really is all I have for now.

I'm going to riff a little about music (remember, this site was supposed to be about music), but before I do, I'll just point out a few articles posted today at Common Dreams:

At times I've had people ask me, in all ernestness, as if I had a disease or something, "Are you a socialist?" Heh...I like this article, Why Marx is the Man of the Moment. I may have to go read Das Kapital.

I've railed on Senator Clintonbagger for a while. Well, the article Hillary on the Right sums it up for me.

And Follow the Uranium puts the focus on all this Rove tomfoolery where it should be.

That's enough with the current events...now onto something a bit more trivial & self-centered. (Hooray Internet!)

Which reminds me, Red Stripe -great commercials, really mediocre beer.

OK...a moment in our lives that really sucks is that event that makes you understand that you care for someone a lot more than they care for you. Not that the other person wants you dead, but just that things aren't going the way you thought they were. You really knew this for a while, but that moment when you actually accept the fact that not only are you not even a buddy, but that when you're not initiating whatever interaction you have with someone...you're pretty much not on the other person's mind. Now for some, this happens once in a while. For others it seems to be a constant state of existence. {cough, cough}

I should be able to write songs about stuff like this, but for whatever reason, I can't. Well, I actually know the reason, but I don't have time for the therapy to deal with my emotional dysfunction. I've tried to put this stuff down on paper and the results are horrible...really horrible. I still give it a shot every once in a while, but so far no improvements.

In today's music there seems to be a lot of people in my boat who go ahead and write this crap anyway. I listen to stuff the kids are into and the music is lame and the lyrics are the most amazing pieces of drivel you'd ever want to hear. I mean, my stuff's supposed to be a joke. And the kids I work with think it's the deepest stuff, that really speaks to them. I think that explains a lot. If that's the stuff that speaks to them, then Whoa Nellie!

I know that sounds like I'm being an old codger. (You haven't heard music til you've heard Ray Conniff, you little bastard.) But there is a little new music that comes out that I like. Actually it's more like bands get lucky and do one song I like, but the rest of it is crap. And most of the bands I like that are still around tend to put out some pretty lame stuff, but I'm not talking about bands with a history of doing good work. They're allowed to go in weird directions. It's the bands that start off sucking and get run.

[Tangent Alert] Now, when you get someone who listens and digs bad songwriting then becomes a music critic you get a review like some of the one's I've gotten for Sapphic Delight. It was here that I was going to put a link to a 2-year-old review that I had just discovered a couple of weeks ago, but the domain has since expired...oh well. But the reviewer actually believed that every song was absolutely true and was even concerned that Trials & Tribulations actually happened to me. And don't get me started about the lesbian fetish I'm supposed to have...jeez. I love it when critics decide to write about a CD and don't read the press material. [Tangent over]

Back to swimming in Lake Me...So I can't write serious songs, and I haven't been in the frame of mind to write Whitee songs, so what you get is a CD that is taking more time to make than a Boston album. With Boston, they take 10 years to put out a new album and it sounds just like the last one. My next one is going to be totally different in terms of music. Doesn't mean it'll be better - just different.

It may be my reading material. To work with language, you need a lot of examples of good writing. These days I tend to read a lot of left-wing stuff...pretty tough to go romantic when you're up to your tits in books on bringing down The Man. So I guess the lesson to all this is....um...wear clean underwear...no, that's not it...

Write what you know. But if you turn it into music get ready for people to throw shit at you.

The title of this post is: DFA - Setting Feminism Back 30 Years.

One paragraph of background/commentary before I get to the story. DFA stands for Democracy for America. It used to stand for Dean for America, but when he crashed & burned in the last Dem presidential primary it became the former. So a lot of semi-creepy "Deaniacs" decided to keep getting together and try to help other progressive candidates. Most were/are Democrats. There's a local chapter here. They continued to talk about helping any progressive candidate, but when they went through the 2 dems having a primary for city school board last year and me and I blew the other two out of the water...they decided to endorse nobody. So I've figured they were pretty full of baloney. Although this year they've come up with a different system. They have the "endorsed" candidates, who are their own inner circle whom they'll actually work for, and they have their "approved" candidates who just go on a list on their website. Pretty ingenious.

So this is apperently how "progressive" these cats are. There is one of their inner core who is running in a town election. To get the local DFA endorsement she had to go to some meeting/interview/whatever. The problem is she was a little busy. No, there wasn't something good on cable that night...no, it wasn't her bowling night. She was a little busy resting from having a freakin baby two days earlier. Well, I guess the DFA folks just assumed she'd already be back out working in the fields or something because they wouldn't give her an extention. It seems when other candidates found out that the so-called leaders were going to give this chick and extension they all wanted one, too...even though they hadn't just had a freakin baby! The so-called leaders caved in when they should have told the other wankers to sit down and shut up. See where I'm going on this?

Dems are supposed to be the bleeding hearts...the ones who want to expand day care, provide health care - at least for kids, parental leave...all that crap. And they show it by this? Niiiiice. Hey, maybe she shouldn't be allowed to run for office at all...we should chain her to a stove or something. I mean, damn, she's lucky we allow her gender to vote at all. Damn, women don't know their place.

That's local...now let me get to something national...yesterday's Democracy Now had some tool named Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton advisor. Holy crap...this guy said that the Democrats have absolutely no responsiblity for the war at all because they're not in power. The fact that the nutjobs have control over all three branches means the Dems have to roll over everytime. I wish Barbara Boxer would kick this guy's ass. So the Dems had no obligation to vote against the war 2+ years ago, to vote against the Patriot Act, to not vote to increase funding for the war, to vote for the No Child Left Untested Act and on and on. Damn, these jokers keep getting more & more ridiculous. This fool's argument is about 2/3rds of the way down the page. The Democratic Party sucks ass. I don't mean anything by it, I'm just saying the Democratic Party sucks ass.

On a totally unrelated note...I ate catfish for the first time today. Tasted like plain old cat. Nasty old cat, with mange...and worms...and hairballs. Man, my mouth feels like I've been out licking garbage cans. "That's nasty, baby...you nasty."

I was glad to see that one of those World Com jerks, Bernard Ebbers got 25 years in the hole for his role in scamming folks. I know there's going to be all the appeals that his rich-ass attorneys can come up with, but I hope in the end he ends up in a nice medium facility. It doesn't have to be OZ, but something where cigarrettes are a currency. Hopefully his a-hole buddies will join him and all their dance cards can get filled. Too bad the Enron folks are still walking around. Shoot, Kenny Lay still gets run.

Speaking of which...then there's this. Sweeeet. The folks who were put on the Enron Board of Directors by a bankruptcy court just voted themselves disgustingly high pay raises. Rich getting richer, my friend.

OK, no anti-capitalist rant today.

But here's something that made me go hmmmmmmm...I was listening to the Yankee game on the radio tonight and their outfielder from Japan comes to bat, Hideki Matsui. As he does, the broadaster starts to do an ad for Benihana's Restaurant. The ad actually said that Benihana's supports the Yankees and Hideki Matsui. I wasn't really offended by this, but it did make me wonder...

What's next...

• this call to the bullpen is brought to you by Brother Al's Soul Food Emporium. Brother Al's supports the Yankees and Tom Gordon. Get your big, black lips around Brother Al's chicken.


• Randy Johnson's pitching performance is sponsored tonight by Ming-Wah's Chicken Head Soup. For all you geeks who like to bite the heads off chickens, there's Ming-Wah's.


• Derek Jeter is coming to the plate and this at-bat is sponsored by Manhole, Manhattan's hottest gay bar.

You get my drift...

I have to admit, I did listen with amusement when mainstream reporters started beating up on Scott McClellan. Months back McLyin said unequivocally that Karl Rove had nothing to do with that leak that outed an undercover CIA operative. What a shock...he lied. And while ongoing investigations have never stopped any of those idiots before the excuse for not answering questions on it is they are happy to discuss it -can't wait to discuss it - after the investigation. Read this.

As I was listening to this I was waiting for McLyin to bust out with, "I know you are, but what am I?"

Then, today (or technically yesterday) The War Criminal was asked about it. He said virtually the exact same thing. What a bunch of tools.

A few quick thoughts on all this. First of all, a really good point on all this is this editorial from the StarTribune in Minneapolis. My head would freakin explode if our corporate rag wrote something like this.

Second, I think it's pretty funny that the press is pissed...now. Finally. Literally, hundreds of thousands of people dying in Iraq - and a few of them even American - and they can't kiss ass enough. McLyin lied to them. No freakin crap. The War Criminal has been doing this for five years...there's been overwhelming evidence of this...and now they're pissed. F-you.

Eventually, I think Rove will have to resign. Think that's good? Well, maybe not. I don't know if Rove leaving next year was planned anyway, but that'll give him time to fix all the voting machines for 2008. I'm serious. And he will have absolutely NO say in the administration after he leaves? Yeah, right.

There may be one benefit from Rove getting driven out of the White House. It may give these dumbass Dems some kind of confidence to act like they acquired some kind of a backbone.......nah!

Oh, and who the hell told The Douchebag (aka John Kerry) he could try to look like he was doing anything? If this MF-er gets the nomination again, I will laugh my balls off at anyone who admits to being a Democrat.

Which reminds me. This woman I met last weekend figured out how to shut me up. I was tabling at the Gay Pride Picnic for the Greens and she comes up to the table, looks around, hems & haws..."I don't know. I like all the things the Green Party stands for, but...if it wasn't for them Bush wouldn't have been elected." So me and the other person who was with me roll our eyes and both lay into her.

"He wasn't elected, he stole both elections."
"Pat Buchanon got enough votes to make a difference."
"With the electoral college, it doesn't matter in NYS."
"Dems ran horrible campaigns."
"And Kerry would have done a better job?"

She shut both of us up with this response.
"I liked that John Kerry."

My response: "Well then, have a nice day."

We registered 3 new greens & 2 blanks that day.

And lastly, where the hell is that savior of progressivism in the Democratic Party, Dennis Kucinich? Man, after he folded like a cheap Crap-Mart tent at the Democratic Convention progressives should have left that smoldering pile of dung called a party, en masse. I like the part where Denny says, "I have not changed my position one iota. I think it's important to understand that."

Dude, you can say whatever you want about your position - your position is what you do. Sandy Berger kicked your ass. Dude's name is Sandy for crying out loud. Hey Denny, what state are you from? Oh yeah, Ohio. Isn't that where all the election shenannigans were going on? It sure was cool to have a Democratic Congressperson all over that...oh right, that wasn't you that was Conyers from Michigan.

And to all those local ex-Greens who were proud of themselves for going Dem to work for Denny...helluva job. Keep up the good work. Next time, if you're gonna work for a loser you may as well work for one who actually did something.

OK, that was all one huge digression. But it was fun...for me, anyway.

I know this is not earthshaking stuff...but, I'm a night person...love Letterman...Leno should go back to stand up and get off TV and Kimmel is passable. I always hated Craig Kilborn. He sucked on Sports Center and I can't remember where, but some Playboy bimbo on some talk show said he was lame in bed...as if I cared...but anyway, when he left they had a rotating host thing working. I was really "pulling" for Sara Rue. She was a horrible interviewer and couldn't tell a joke to save her life...but good lord she had a huge rack and dressed appropriately. Yeah, I know, that's lame...but I'm a man, dammit.

So when they said that Mr. Wick from the Drew Carey Show got the gig I figured we had another Magic Johnson on our hands...but damn...he's pretty freakin good. He doesn't have guests worth a damn yet, but he's really good. Conan's OK, but I have to be honest, he doesn't have a big comedic toolbox...he comes back to the same stuff over and over. So far...Craig's my favorite Fergie.

OK, enough gratutious nudity.

What an odd couple of days. There's no big tragedies going on, but just a lot of things that make me go hmmmm.

Not to go too webjournal on you, but yesterday was my birthday. Didn't like it...never do. All I wanted to do on my birthday was play ball - and we got spanked again and this time I played like doody. I don't think of my birthday in terms of "another year older and having no life" but I do have to admit, there are a few things I thought I would have accomplished by now - and wonder if I ever will. I know, that's 99% of us, and I have done stuff I would never have thought I would have done just 10 years ago. I guess the grass is always greener...and to make things even more pathetic is I feel guilty for feeling bad because I know gazillion other people have it far worse then me. So I can't even enjoy my birthday depression.

OK, enough of that gay banter. Let's see...onto other downers...I had the weirdest phone call today. I'm not going to go into the complete background...it would take forever, but let's say it was someone who used to be...um...in the same political/activist camp as me. This person is still an activist, but whereas he used to do it as an "amateur" (i.e. not get paid for it) he now does it as a profession and has since kind of left the rest of his old crew behind - even though he gets defensive when you call him on it. So the conversation was him asking me if I wanted to sell out. The details aren't important for this, but the odd thing was that he asked as if was the most natural thing for me to do and he was a bit incredulous when I told him I wasn't interested. It kind of threw me off for two reasons.

First, I tend to have this habit of when I first meet forceful people: bosses, activists, etc, I tend to be a bit naive...I think they are...well, not superhuman, but have all this integrity. What happens every time is eventually I see them as being human, with all the contradictions and complexities that most of us have. When I see those individuals as being as full of crap as the rest of us, it's a little disconcerting. And this is where I am with this guy. I've considered him a friend...he was one of the people who got me started on my way to this left-wing radicalism fandango. It's odd watching him become part of the establishment...even if it is still on the fringe. But it may just be some jealousy as now he has actual resources to work with and I don't.

The second reason the situation is a bit odd is that I've just started reading this book, the classic Saul Alinksy, Rules for Radicals. This book is kicking my ass. I have to put the book down every paragraph to let what he's saying seep in. I compare what he's saying to my experiences, and while I don't agree with everything he says it's definitely messing with my "paradigms". One of the things he talks about is the whole "ends justifying the means" argument. And even before my conversation today, I was putting Alinksy's arguments in the context of this guy and my previous relationship with him.

The only conclusion I can draw from this is that being an adult sucks ass. While I want to change the world, and I have no intention of not trying, I'd really rather just hang out and laugh until it hurts at Yo Mama Jokes.

Argh...well, I'm going to go listen to today's Democracy Now. That should be real uplifting.

After my last post, I was going to keep going with the theme...then I thought I'd do something a little more light-hearted. Then I thought I'd talk about my day tabling with the Green Party at the Gay Pride Picnic...not too much to say though...but then while looking online for a picture of Mr. Salty (don't ask) I ran into this.

Look, man...the only thing that makes this funny is that it's on the web. It's so freaking stupid it's funny. There isn't enough peyote in the world to make me think of a concept this freakin dumb. If I pulled this out of my ass, I wouldn't tell my friends about it, more or less create a website for it. Thank God Al Gore invented the internet...I guess.

So while I'm here. I guess I can go on a bit about the Pride Picnic. It was fine. Nothing too crazy this year. Drag Queen kareoke was a bit of a let down. A lot of politicians were there. Mostly Dems, but there was a table for the Log Cabin Republicans...they were creepy. I was going to be there for six hours so I brought my guitar - to get a little practicing in...so I'm trying to tune this thing over the kareoke and busted the guitar...the turning thing-a-majigy broke. Greeeat. We gave away Blow Pops...get it? Gay...Blow Pops...yeah. I liked it, nobody thought it was funny, but the gays sure do like their Blow Pops.

As we were coming into the picnic, at the gate was this huge rainbow made of rows of balloons...a pretty elaborate contraption. Taking a page from Lucille Ball I tripped over one of the stakes holding it down and one end of the rainbow flew up into the air creating one of the weirdest (and largest) rainbow phallic symbols you'd ever want to see. So as some of us were trying to fix it, one of the picnic volunteers decided it would be a good time to keep rubbing my back as he was talking to me...I guess to calm me down - even though I wasn't upset. Uh...OK...hey, if it was good for him, I'm cool with it. When in Rome, I guess.

So I won't get into the social background of how I know this person, but I bumped into this chick at the picnic who I just adore. She's smart, funny, artistic, drop-dead gorgeous. Likes beer, likes my jokes (with or without beer)...I don't know why we've never gotten together....oh yeah...maybe it's because she's GAY! Well, that and the fact that women don't like me, but that's trivial. So reasons unimportant, she was wearing a sailor cap and I called her Mrs. Salty. She didn't get it. So I was looking for a picture of Mr. Salty to send her, but can only find some retared stuffed Salty that looks like Mr. Hankey with Ebola...but that's how I found the Leonard Nemoy site. (wow...that went full circle).

Oh and back to the political for a sec...so I freaked out a bunch of Democrats when I made this sign online and had it in the middle of our table at the picnic...



Man, they were falling over themselves..."that's not fair!" "were not all like that." "I...uh...but..." Yeah, Sparky. Whatever.

Stay tuned...next Saturday...The Gay Pride Parade. Good times.

OK, if you read my purging about London below...check this out...George Galloway rocks.

I doubt that anything I say here is going to be a big surprise to those who know me or visit whitee.com regularly, but...a boy's gotta do what a boy's gotta do.

Honestly, I'm not really phased by the London bombings. 50 people dead...big whup. Seriously. If you're not outraged by the 50+ people killed in Iraq every day or the literally 100's of thousands of Iraqi women & children killed by the US over the past ten years...then what does 50 people in London matter? What, because they were white? But that's not as bad as 9/11 because they were American (even though a good number were foreigners). Dude, if that's not racist, it's certainly jingoistic. What's after that, a small black kid from Alabama, his life isn't worth as much as a crazy chick from Georgia who was/wasn't really abducted? We suck, plain and simple.

The biggest problem I have with what happened in London is, those people in the subway cars and on that bus should not have been killed...period. If those cats REALLY stood up for what they believed they would have found a way to blow up those assholes at the G-8 Summit. I'm not saying they should have done that - no one should be blowing up anyone. But if that's your method of choice, leave those people out of it. Bush, Blair and the rest of the imperialistic bastards should be the targets.

But here's the thing...while these bombers are nuts, I don't think they're stupid. You can't be stupid to coordinate this kind of stuff, and to blow people up in Iraq on a daily basis. I'm convinced that both sides, The War Criminal & company as well as the fundamentalist nutjobs...oops...that's Bush, too...um...the Muslim fundeamentalist nutjobs, want this. They want this new Vietnam. There's already enough evidence to show that The War Criminal & Co planned Iraq all along - dude should be thrown in jail for it - but he's extremely predictable. You know what his response will be (and it's been predictable on London - but more on that later). So by bombing London, the Muslim wackos know it will steele our nutjobs' resolve.

Which brings us to War Criminal & Prime Minister War Criminal. Let's take a look at their responses - which we've already seen a million times because the mainstream press sucks so much ass:

Prime Minister War Criminal: "It's important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world."

Hmmm...where to start...how about here...You hypocritical lying bastard! That's a good place to start. Our "way of life" is to screw poor countries...to bomb the shit out of them...screw up their environment...then put them in so much debt they can't function. Values? There shouldn't be one MF-ing hungry person in this world...not one. You (we) have enough resources that we have stolen to feed the world. Asshole.

President War Criminal: "This morning I've been in contact with our homeland security folks and I instructed them to be in touch with local and state officials about the facts of what took place here and in London and to be extra vigilant as our folks start heading to work."

That's nice...create panic at home. Still got your duct tape handy?

"On the one hand, we got people here who are working to alleviate poverty and to help rid the world of the pandemic of AIDS and that are working on ways to have a clean environment. And on the other hand, you've got people killing innocent people."

I..uh...well...are you f-ing kidding me? Who is who, you fuck? You're not doing shit for people in Africa and you sure as hell aren't doing dick for the environment.

Yeah...but Congressional Elections are coming up in 2006...so we just vote some Dems in and the world is safe, right? I don't think so:

Democrats Blew it on CAFTA Vote
28 Dems block crackdown on corporate tax evaders

So to sum up...I feel bad for the folks in London who were killed or hurt, but I feel just as bad for the 2-year-old who got shot in the leg while playing in his driveway in Rochester and as bad as I do for the innocent people who have died or have been living in squalor in Iraq for a decade. Or as bad as I do for the little girls in Thailand who get forced into prostitution. Their lives are worth just as much.

As I blog, the G8 Summit is going down in Scotland. Everyone there hates the US...it used to be just The War Criminal they hated, but now that we the people allowed him to rig another election they hate us, too. Even Baloney Blair is peeved because the War Criminal & Co refuses to acknowledge global warming. Honestly, the US needs to be stopped. It would be cool if the rest of the group got together and forced us to chill, but I doubt it will happen. They don't have the fortitude.

Just as with all of these things, there are a ton of protesters there. And already the police are kicking the shit out of them. You can check it out - live at Indymedia UK or Indymedia Scotland. I never could understand how police could beat the crap out of protesters...Seattle, Miami, Quebec...doesn't matter. Let 'em walk around, yell, do drum circles, whatever. They get off on gassing people who have no weapons.

Well, I highly recommend you get your G8 News from non-corporate media.

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Hey, got any spare cash laying around? I bet you do. I saw a couple of minutes of some Dateline...20/20...whatever...story about this group of people who have set up this program to prevent girls in Thailand from getting taken into prostitution. They educate them, try to get them into places of higher learning, get them ready to work and even try to help the ones who have already been taken. I'm talking about girls...10, 11, 12 years old. This program is called the Daughters' Education Programme. So if you have a few bucks, send 'em some scoots.

I was at the gym this morning and one of the TV's had on VH1. The Shakira video was on. Now, I was listening to my own music so I didn't hear the song. But this video was so ridiculous...it had to be a parody. I swear she air humped the entire song. She did it with motor oil all over her, she did it without. She writhed on the floor, she humped a guy's leg...

Look. I absolutely love Shakira. I couldn't tell you a single song she does because when she's on TV there tends to be a weird ringing in my ears - probably from all the brain rushing out of my cranium ("if you know what I'm saying"). F-Jennifer Lopez. Shakira has the ass. No. She has two asses. Each cheek is an ass onto itself, with a mind of it's own and each can move independently of the other one. You seeing where I'm going here? I'm down with the Shakira.

But this was too much - even for me. I wasn't offended. Starvation, poverty and genocide offend me. Honey, if you're gonna bellydance, fine. Do it. Skip whatever stupid pseudo-plot this video allegedly have. The motor oil...not working for me. Hell, if you need to grind like that...do porn.

You know, one of these days I should find out if she can sing.

When Sapphic Delight came out, I sent copies to a lot of places for review. A lot. One of them was to a person who published a Zine called The Easy Way. She didn't really get the concept of Whitee as you can read in her review. Over an e-mail conversation we had she said what a lot of people say after Whitee gets explained to them: "Oh. That's funny."

Anyway, she also is a part-time musician and is a full-time law school student. She's one of the "good guys". She'll be lawyering up for the oppressed and underprivilaged, she's a serious vegetarian (which I would be as well, except I'm too damn lazy and I don't know if I could go without a burger), likes long walks on the beach, rainy days and hot chocolate, hates traffic jams, rude people...ok, you get the picture. Anyway, she just told me that she was able to do a couple of demos...here's the page where you can check 'em out.

Tell her Whitee sentcha.

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I had a few minutes to kill and I was watching parts of a 60 Minutes re-run tonight. There was this story about this dude whose company has developed aircraft that can take "ordinary" people into space - bypassing NASA & the government. As I'm watching it I'm thinking in my usual, Commie, left-wing way, "See. This guy isn't looking for government handouts or tons of money. He's doing this stuff because he wants to progress humankind."

Uh, but then we see his backers...Paul Allen from Microsoft ($25 mil) and then that dummy from Virgin, Richard Branson ($125 mil). Well, I guess that's how capitalism is supposed to work. Let rich people stay rich so they'll invest then we little people benefit. Yeah, I guess. But the payoff for us po' foke is not going to be when I'm around. Rocket Man said that when his commerical space flights start, it'll cost $100K a ticket. To hell with a hot towel, I want a happy ending with that! He says that eventually the cost will come down...to what? Ten Grand? Let's take the family!

Yeah, it's a step on the way to becoming The Jetsons. But meanwhile we have a few billion people down here who could use drinkable water, some food and the end of AIDS. It's about priorities.

And I'm not about means to an end. Letting Microsoft and others get away with crap so they can invest in cool toys...no. If they're telling me if we let them have their monopolies, excessive tax breaks, etc and promise to make sure everyone has clean drinking water...OK, we'll talk.

F-ing spaceships.

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Live 8...hmmmmm...well....don't care. The issue of poverty...I do care. But concerts to bring awareness. Well, I don't know. I'm pretty cynical. I don't know how much it's going to change stuff. Maybe if it can influence people to be more aware, watch what they buy, boycott intellegently, stuff like that, it could have a small effect. I guess it's better than nothing. Though, none of the lineups made me want to watch/listen.

We (meaning people who give a shit) are never going to affect real change until we do it with our dollars...that's what makes the world go 'round. I would rather it was sex, but it's not...it's money. The thing is, the people who have money - and I don't mean millions - I mean the middle class people who shop at malls, Crap-Mart, Schwegmans, etc - they won't buy less of more expensive things that are made by non-sweatshop labor. We spend our money on stuff not on people...and funny thing is, we don't seem to be very happy.

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Man, I'm all over the place tonight, but my weekend's coming up so I won't be bloggin for a few days...gotta get it all in. If you look at my post from a couple of days ago (7/5/05) about Rochester's mayoral race, that'll give you some background.

So in the local corporate rag, there's an article about the race and how the issue of crime could be the most important issue. The Republican guy is a freakin loon. I used to think he's funny, but that guy is why they invented Prozac.

The rest of the idiots kept talking about punnishment. Cops, volunteer watch, etc. About catching criminal behavior - as if that was going to deter crime & violent behavior. No one...not even the noted local professor-expert talked about poverty. As long as you have serious poverty you will always have crime & violence. Period. There's really nothing to discuss. Create all the construction projects for political donors you want, keep bars open all night, buy 100 ferries, but you will never really reduce violent behavior as long as you have poverty and unequal condidtions focused among different races.

I'm done for now...have a happy, independent weekend (don't get me started on that, either)

Finally! Man, I was getting a little worried. I haven't been able to write anything I liked in at least a year...today, a song just hit me as I was driving. I had to hurry to where I was going, sit in the parking lot and just start writing. I like where it is so far, but I don't have a structure to it - or even a hook - yet. I'm fixin to get to it after this. It's Whiteesque so I'm happy.

[Non-sequitur Alert]

Everyone has those moments where they think of something freakin hilarious or smooth to say...minutes, hours or even days after it would have been funny or smooth. I would like to have the superpower to be able to do this time warp thing where I could go back and say what I thought of. Or even the ability to make people think I said it. I would also like this superpower to make something funny even after I have to explain it 5 times to a person. On that note...here are a few things that would have been smooth/funny if I had said it at the time:

"Oh, so now you have a street named after you."
"Because Bob is spelled with a 'b'."
"But, I'm not supposed to sound black."

Here are a few things that will never be funny or smooth, even if I had this new superpower:

"That's what she said."
"No, I'd like to eat it off of your ass."
"But you do it for me."

And on a totally, self-centered note (!), superpower or not, this will always be funny to me, because you just had to be there:

"And then you do it to the jacket."

I know...I've spent at least half my time on this blog busting on the Democratic Party...but damn, I just can't help it. I don't understand what they are thinking...(by the way, if you're new to Whitee.com - I'm a Green). Does the Democratic "leadership" really think this is working? I turned on Air America again for the first time in...jeez...months and they're f-ing clueless, too. Look...it's easy to bitch about The War Criminal and his posse. They are thugs...brutish...facist thugs. But when you're the opposition and you do all of...of...this. OK, let me get to examples. I'll start with local - which for me is the Rochester, NY area - for now, anyway.

A two sentence description of this area: Dems run the city and the one suburb where most of the Jews are and the Reps have the rest of the suburbs. Generalizing, the annoying, upper-class whites live in the outlying suburbs, middle-class whites & non-whites live in the "inner ring" suburbs (which is starting to decay, causing the first group to move even farther out) and the city has your really poor people, kooky lefties, gentrifyingly annoying young whites, etc.

While New York is a "blue" state, this county is just about even as a whole. And the dems here are like Keystone Kops. The party is factioned into a kingdom that is terrorized by a State Assemblyman who handpicks people to run for office. And people in this city are lemmings...you could run a pedofile-nazi-arsonist for city council and as long as he's on the democratic line in November...he's winning. I'm not exaggerating.

So this year, there's a mayoral race...oh good lordy...it's only July and I want the sweet release of death from this thing already.

• There's a Republican nut who is a local attorney who represents most of the high-profiled creepy people in town. I'm not going to talk about him because he's not winning.


• There's the "annointed" one, our Assemblyman's guy (who happened to work for the Assemblyman for over 10 years). I've seen this guy speak and have spoken on stage with him. He will say "yes" to whomever is in the room at any given time. He is big on rhetoric and small on solutions. He would not cause the further downfall of this city, but Rochester will just continue to spin its wheels with him at the head.


• There's the city councilman who is the one furthest to the left. Openly gay. Elementary School Principal. Best of the three dems. Has a backbone. Doesn't do anything outrageous but he will buck the system if he believes in something. No freakin chance.


• Then you have the Police Chief who resigned to run for mayor. He is a Republican in every sense of the word. Most of his big money people are suburban republicans. Prominent Dems are helping him only because they hate the Assemblyman-Czar. This guy doesn't have a freakin idea in his head on how to improve this city, but he sure has signs in every street-corner mini-mart/crack dealership in town. This is a guy, who as a beat cop, busted open the heads of black people on the street (like our cops do now) and he has the solutions. Well, I'm still waiting to hear 'em. Someone in his campaign was telling me about this guy's idea on how to handle the young black male problem in the city...he used frilly words, but all he was saying was to send black kids to orphanages in the country.

This is a bizzare example of how messed up the Dems are. We have a situation where the local party has a monopoly on any seat in the city. Whomever has that line in November wins. And the one person who actually stands for the values the party is supposed to embody is ignored by the party. In fact, the new party chair has asked him to stop with his primary bid. When you can choose anyone you want...any activist...any solid political person with a progressive core with real ideas...you go for the guy with no substance or the trojan republican.

At the State Level...well...I only have one example...look at our Senators. Oh my god...Clintonbagger & Warmonger Chuck. You can use the search engine on the top of this page to see what I've said about these sleezebags. I'm not going to repeat it and I have nothing new on them, except this...

Anyone who starts that crap about me not liking Clintonbagger because she's a strong woman can kiss my tush. I don't care what her gender is, she's sleezy, voted for the war and I trust her as much as I trust her husband. And...if you still think it's an issue of sexism, you can quote me on this...

If the Democrat's nominee for the White House in 2008 is Barbara Boxer, I will change my registration to Dem and work on her campaign. Yep, I said it.

Federally. Oh Lordy...you cats are in serious trouble. Oh my freakin god. Sandra Day O'Connor stepping down from the Supreme Court....oh...we're so screwed because now anyone who cherishes their civil liberties is going to have Harry Reid standing up for them. hooray. Renquist has been dead for a year and hasn't realized it yet so now The War Criminal & Co are going to put two wackos on the bench and the Dems will do nothing to stop it. What good is having the right to filibuster if you don't use it? Man...check out a couple of Common Dreams articles on this:

O'Connor Resigns; Ugliness To Come; Bush Foes Ought To Think about the E-word
Court Fight: It's More Than Left-v-Right
or
It's Put Up or Shut Up Time for Bush and the Democrats

Now I agree with this. A good point in the What's the Matter with Kansas book was that for all the talk about abortion, etc, the republicans haven't actually done much to it. (individual crazies have, but not politicans or courts) The Supreme Court has done some nasty stuff in economic (i.e. class) decisions.

To sum up...we're all a bunch of idiots. So there.

Here's how a government SHOULD work.

Whomever came up with this idea, back in the 50's or whenever to have annual motor vehicle inspections HAD to have been a lobbyist for the mechanic's union. Lord have mercy is this a racket. I had my car inspected today...(let's ignore the fact that it took literally all day for an inspection & oil change)...$113. Yep...you know that if your car is more than two years old, you're not going to be paying just the cost of the inspection. At the very least you're going to HAVE to have a "bulb replaced" just to make it worth the while of looking at your ride. There's not a lot you can do about it...you're screwed because the first thing they do before looking at your car is take the old sticker off - so if they tell you all this stuff needs fixing and you say no...no sticker...you lose.

My cynicism has reached the point where I am certain this was all done with back room deals between politicians and some group and we have had to spend, I'll bet, trillions of dollars for it.

Of course if you REALLY look at it closely if hurts the poor the most. Rich folks always have new cars (even their kids) so they don't have cars that need all that crap, poor folks drive in parts of town where the roads suck, doing more damage to their older vehicles. So rather than just deal with a beat-up hooptie with bad this and funky that, you're literally forced to pay to have certain stuff fixed...all in the name of safety, of course. There's been many-a-time I've had to use rent money to get my car fixed to have transportation to get to the job in the 'burbs that I pay my rent (or now car repairs) with.

Too bad all the empasis is on cars...but we wouldn't have it any...other...way.