"Some men wish evil..."

    couldn't help but notice that the seller of this sticker was somewhere in China...

i have come to believe that the extreme divisions of thought in this country may have a lot to do with not enough thinking going on...much to the detriment of civil society...i still fly my Earth flag as the only place i think i can defend is the planet i live on...USA has the great advantage of being a country where i can say that without fear of being "RE-EDUCATED" or sent to the gulag to work...

i would like to recommend a very good educational DVD..."Earth: the biography" with Dr. Iain Stewart it is excellent and keeps things in a historical perspective...it is 2 DVD's and put out by the BBC (2008) 230 minutes...it has lots of good information such as the fact that stromatolites were the main life on the planet for 2 billion years...when you watch these documentaries you realize that even if the humans are extincted there will be other life forms which will probably survive and evolve into neck-tie wearing and high heel shoe wearing civilized nin-com-poops...and the whole extinction thing will start again...one of the interesting segments in the "atmosphere" has to do with joe kettinger who in 1960 went up in a ballon to 19 miles and jumped out with a parachute...he reached speeds of 620 miles per hour...it is still the longest free fall on record...which was survived...

i would like to mention a movie i recently viewed called "Dead Man" with johnny depp...mr depp is laying down a lot in this movie...i don't know if it was in his contract or what but it does not  detract from his performance...much...this is a jim jarmusch movie so it is a little "quirky" it also has a super annuated robert michum playing a gangster type..also iggy pop has a small role as sally a transvestite trapper...it doesn't end well...neil young does the music...interesting but there will probably not be any "soundtracks" released...the most able character is the native american guy "Nobody" who i think is gabriel byrne...but i could be wrong...

"Some men wish evil and accomplish it/ But most men, when they work in that machine,/ Just let it happen somewhere in the wheels,/ The fault is no decisive, villainous knife/ But the dull saw that is the routine mind." Stephen Vincent Benet