What could I ever say about Iraq and Afganistan that has not been said better elsewhere by people who know more? After the zillions of blogs going this way and that as the slow trickle of knowledge about the real war came out and replaced the one Rumsfeld and Bush made up for the press, I am wary myself of reading anything more on the topic, let alone writing about it, but it is on my mind a lot, and I can do my best, one of the things blogs are truly about -- record being an educated writ...

adler and intrinsic worth I have been thinking a lot about Adler lately. He is a psychiatrist who puts forth a mode of thinking that brought him(and a lot of his patients) to a place from which he wrote a book titled, How To Be Happy No Matter What The Fuck Is Happening In Your Life (it actually may be slightly different, should look it up). He used the word Fuck a lot in a recent show I saw on him. An old man with a dirty mouth is my kind of bar buddy. What I took from Adler was ...

CHORUS: I loaded sixteen tons and what do I get Another day older and deeper in debt.h Saint Peter don't call me cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store. I was born one morning, was a drizzling rain A fussing and fighting ain't my middle name. Well they raised me in a corner by a Mammy hound I'm as mean as a dog but I'm as gentle as a lamb. CHORUS Well I got up one morning, the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel and I went to the mine, I loaded sixteen ton of ...