Let's Get Positive Edition

Top Ten List of What's Good in the World (in no particular order)

1.   Family life

2.   South Park (http://www.southparkstudios.com/)

3.   Academia

4.   Ghost Hunters

5.   Lucha Libre (http://www.corazonfairtrade.com/maskluchalibre1.html)



6.   Comic books

7.   eBay

8.   No war inside U.S. borders.

9.   Frederick Wiseman movies (http://www.zipporah.com/)

10.  Fire Pro Wrestling Returns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Pro_Wrestling_Returns)

Why Take Another Breath

Oatmeal with Grape Jelly mixed in...mmmmmmm.

Taboo Plaza

Let's talk about the children. 
There's a lot of different ways to think about them.
There's the political cliche, 'What about the children?'  There's a financial aspect to kids.  There's a story to be told about children from the perspective of war and sex.  One's own personal experience with a child.  The story about children is a landscape of varied tales both uplifting and demeaning.
Kids, financially, are a burden.  They're too dumb to produce as well as being to fragile for serious manual labor.
Kids are tomorrow.
Sexually, kids are rightfully taboo. 
Physically, there's no excuse for beating up a child.
Kids are tomorrow.
We can't necessarily agree on exactly what we want to teach children, so instead we teach children vast quantities of nothing.  As go our children, so goes our civilization.
Kids are tomorrow.
I love my children, and not necessarily in Freud's fashion.  My kids are annoying, but delightful.  They are clueless yet endearing.  They're curious about particular things.  That is what makes them individuals.  They lose their mind together.  That adheres them as a group. 
A unit.
A family.
Kids are tomorrow.
I informally teach my children to be all right with themselves.  What ever that means, because when I'm done with them they will be left with themselves.  They should figure that out now before my time expires.
Kids are tomorrow.
We know what we want in adults around us.  That much we can generally agree on key items.  As we get to details such as abortion we have to stop because we evenly disagree on that regard.  However, these things we know we want in one another should be passed down to the generation to come. 
What we know, we should share if we hope for a future exemplifying what we know to be good.
Kids are tomorrow.

Birthday Shout Outs (April 21st to April 26th)

4/20
(1893) Harold Lloyd-  This guy was crazy entertaining for working in the silent era of films.

4/21
(1947) Iggy Pop- I really like his song "Lust for Life."




4/22
(1937) Jack Nicholson- He was the best for quite some time.




4/23
(1564) William Shakespeare- In the world of literature, it's difficult to top this guy.
(1961) Terry Gordy- One of my all time favorite wrestlers.




4/24
(1963) Billy Gould- Faith No More's "Real Thing" album was pretty awesome.



4/25
(1940) Al Pacino- Are you freaking kidding me?  This guy is Scarface.  Without him, there wasn't a movie there.

4/26
(1963) Jet Li- This guy kicks ass.

Belly Laugh

I've never studied the subject but I would have to imagine that Carol Burnett's comedy show was a significant move in the projected image of American women.  The show was also pretty funny at the time. 

I'm not sure how well its aged though.