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Shivers! The work day is done. I almost stumbled right into Critical Mass as I left work. What on earth is that thing for? To charge up that oh-so-portland need to feel like your fixing the world? Anyway. I’ve been biking about the city for longer than I care to remember and we are I think the only thing this place needs is for Cyclists to follow the “rules of the road” and “common sense”… too many of them seem to feel immune to laws and common courtesy.

Well onwards into the evening… My girl has run off to the fabric store so I had a movie evening. I opted for Hidden Fortress, which wasn’t too popular once the girls got home… I should learn to check my phone messages more often. It’s too bad that I had heard about it being the basis for Star Wars soo many times, I couldn’t stop thinking about which scenes were brought over. It was nothing like the comparison between Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo, though. Anyway, even though by now I should be giving up on getting to see anything at a theater… With The Great Escape and Danny the Dog at cheapo theaters this week… These always unfulfilled movie urges will continue for at least one more week…

What year is this? Yesterday, on the news, did I really hear “ol’ dub” say that he “thinks it’s time we started building nuclear plants again?” Did the news really follow that up by mentioning the “bother of what to do with the nuclear waste?”… Well, since the old waste is still a bother, doesn’t making more seem a bit counterintuitive? Other horrible things? The “supreme” court ruling that cities can condemn private property in the name of developer profits? Yay, American Freedom! Yeah, let’s spread more of that kind of liberty around the word… Kissenger style!

Not to sound like a ol’tyme New Deal Socialist or something but was there not a time when the American Government expended at least a little effort and expense for the non-corporate citizen, instead of taking taxpayer money and handing it over to for-profit corporations? Contrary to what the Republicrats like to say, I think the Founding Fathers and yes, ol’ Jesus himself (when did Christians take it upon themselves to think that Usury, by which we mean all interest charged on money loaned, was a godly thing?) would be mighty disappointed with this “slave to the corporation” republic.

Of course, not being a religious man, I may be wrong. I may be mis-understanding the few religious bits that I’ve heard. The new American Christianity of “good things for those who take, nothing for those who don’t” just wasn’t quite what I thought it was all about.

Anything positive to report today? Well, no. No movies. No books. A bit of enjoyable comics, Shaolin Cowboy, were read.