Big Mattress Song of the Week (8/29-9/4)
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles Glory Be
A big, rockin’YEAH for the gal from Boston; (or- as Al Pacino might say-”HOO-a!”)
Enjoy..
The Good, the Ugly and the Bad
We all have our own ideas about who the good guys and who the bad guys are in today’s world. Currently, we may be experiencing one of the biggest philosophical gaps in history as to which is which. Forgetting the common evil individuals like rapists, dictators, molesters and serial killers and speaking only on a big picture scale, in my opinion the three worst enemies to mankind right now are:
1. Overpopulation.
(Decide for yourself whether the main causes for this problem are the Vatican, the Koran or just horny religious and ethnic groups, in general). In any case, too many people, taking too much of everything and putting back much less than what they take is a humongous problem.
2. Runaway Corporate power.
It’s a very simple concept. Name a world-wide problem and you can bet that one or several corporations are either causing it or supporting it- outwardly or behind the scenes: War, oil spills, safety accidents, poverty, famine, selfishness, overforresting, pollution, etc. Important to remember again, that Corporations are not people, even though our current Supreme Court has deemed them so. Corporations are run by CEOs. A CEO’S main job and priority is to enrich, nurture and nourish the bottom line. His/her obligation- his/her purpose- is to make a profit by any means necessary; even if that means cutting costs, cutting quality, cutting safety, cutting employees and even cutting off its own head if, necessary, to continue to profit. This is how the shareholders and the financial establishment define a really good CEO. These unbridled, runaway, unimpeded Corporations (which President Eisenhower warned us about in the 50′s) as well as the total takeover of Media and how we receive and interpret information have changed life on this earth and our perception of our experiences so drastically that the future can be looked as optimistic only with the rosiest of colored sunglasses.
3. Lack of respect for other living beings.
No need to expound. It’s all around us- and it’s a bit sad.
Estrogen Wednesday
The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment:
Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.
There were all the regular types of stuff: spilled milk and pennies saved.
But then the teacher realized, much to her dismay, that only Janie was left.
“Janie, do you have a story to share?’
”Yes ma’am. My Daddy told me a story about my Mommy.

She was a Marine pilot in Afghanistan, and her plane got hit.
She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all
she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife.
She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn’t
break, and then her parachute landed her right in the middle of 20 Taliban troops.
She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of bullets,
killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke,;
and then she killed the last Taliban with her bare hands.”
”Good heavens,” said the horrified teacher.
‘What did your daddy tell you was the moral to this horrible story?”
“Stay away from Mommy when she’s been drinking.”
Hold up on tossing that last stone
There are many dimensions to evil- and not all of them are evil.
Testosterone Tuesday
30 seconds of a commercial • 30 seconds of Katy Perry being hot. It’s kind of a wash.

