the lot

is it that difficult to believe your homeland is not as golden as you once thought? as an American it is quite easy for me to believe this, though I don't remember a time when I thought my homeland was golden. the first imprint my country left on me was the fear I got when I heard over the car radio that we were going to war in the Persian Gulf. Then, President Papa Bush, gave me no indication that this wasn't a grave matter. Little did I know then that the graves were not on these shores, though some were filled with our bodies, but I was too young to know those things at the time. And what about my junior high social studies teacher who reassured us, living in a suburb of Washington D.C., that if nuclear war were to happen we would be sure to be the first to peril. ah! youth...

now, I know more history and can't fathom how anyone would hold America up too high, unless it is in the catagory of The Most Capitalistic Country. we built this country on the graves of indians and fight foreign wars because we believe it is the right thing to do...to butt our noses in where they don't belong. sending troops to stop genocide because no one should be like us, though everyone should be like us. a vicious cycle.

And what about the fact we don't have a properly elected official? did you know that if you do a google search for the word "failure", President Baby Bush is on the top of the list? Now, the story goes that Bush supporters couldn't handle this so they started their own SEO efforts and got Michael Moore to be #2. What has he failed at though? His movies are quite popular. Blockbusters if you will. But that is neither here nor there. For the first time, in my knowledge, there is criticism from outside observers that they can no longer differentiate between the will of the American people and the will of the American President. This, my friends, is a catastrophe...

once again, you all know this, so I don't have to tell you.

What I want to talk about now is Israel, the Jewish people and a play that I am working on...The Lot, but you will have to wait for next time, as I must see to my day job...