Now that Democrats have started calling themselves progressives, I’ve started calling myself a liberal. Sometimes I call myself a conservative depending on who I want to piss off.
I thought up an office prank. You design a shirt, such as a pink business shirt with a picture of the Pentagon on it. You hand them out to all the people who show up on time to work and ask them to put them on. A woman named Rachel hands out forms for them to sign. They get $100 initially plus a $100 bonus if they go along with the gag. Rachel disappears.
When people show up late for work, the early birds don’t tell them anything useful. They tell them that they have to sign a form before they can tell them what is going on. Rachel has the forms, but nobody can find Rachel. Film the late comers wondering around acting confused. This gag is expensive, so only a high budget television show could pull it off.
A woman accused Al Gore of assaulting her. She said that she didn’t go to the police right away, because she didn’t know what the crime was called (sexual assault). She had to go on the Internet to look it up. Does Al Gore regret inventing the Internet?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/police_release_tape_from_gore_accuser_U2IYikDw6N8YxmABezRAOI
Some Republicans argue that the recently signed health care reform package is unconstitutional. This strikes me as a dangerous argument. Suppose Republicans succeed. Suppose that the Supreme Court starts striking down all health plans — both Democratic and Republican plans. That would render the problem unsolvable. There are 45 million uninsured and that problem has to be addressed. We can’t just go around striking down all health plans and rendering the problem unsolvable.
45,000 people a year die due to lack of health coverage. Thousands go bankrupt. As costs and unemployment go up, more and more companies are going to drop health coverage for their employees. Thus far, Republicans are proposing tiny solutions that will insure very few additional people. Tort reform would be good, but that won’t solve all of our problems.
Mitt Romney has signed more substantial legislation in Massachusetts, but on the national front, he has fallen in line with other Republicans. I don’t know why — maybe he is planning to run for President again.
Is there a dragon sized hole in every man? In the past, I have heard the question “Is there a God sized hole in every man?” The question implies that people have an innate natural desire to believe in God. There is also an interest in dragons. There are both European and Chinese legends about dragons. There were dragon like creatures in Avatar. The top movie now is “How to Train Your Dragon.”
Is there an innate human desire to dream about dragons and want to believe that they exist?
I believe that some images are stored in our DNA. In particular, what most people are sexually attracted to is an image stored in DNA (in my opinion). That would be a case where one image is turned on and the other turned off. What you are attracted to changes over time based on what you are successful with. Attractive animals like tigers and wolves are most likely inherited images as well.
Dragon images are most likely not in our DNA, but they could be. Some of our ancestors were 3 feet tall (1 meter) and to them some birds would be quite large. A dragon could be the merging of two beasts — eagle and crocodile. In the very distant past, our ancestors had to contend with pterodactyls. I don’t believe that images can persist that long in DNA, but it’s possible.
If your waiter asks if you want red wine or white wine, tell him “Neither. I’ll have green wine.” There is only one day a year when you can get away with it.
Posted on March 17, 2010 (Saint Patrick’s Day)