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With all the crud that is constantly creeping up everywhere from the bowels of that noxious Leviathan misnamed government (you figure it out), which is constantly spun as homage lain upon the alter of almighty political correctness, it sometimes becomes easy to forget the Blessings some of us still enjoy. I intend to thumb my nose at the pervasive Nanny State here and consider some of the good things in life. 末It's good thing that the internet came along just in time to save the ability to conduct free speech. At some point in the last 30 years, professional press and media outlets became conglomerated and sanitized to reflect the manipulative bent of the reigning oligarchy. Yes, perhaps this is nothing new, except the unprecedented global level to which the effect has developed. Until the www. blew into town, individual viewpoints and differing opinions, freely circulated and discussed, had largely been relegated to the growing dust heap of trampled constitutional affirmations. Unless you just happen to be a corporate or government mogul, most traces of individualistic dialogue or dissent have recently been deeply buried, completely edited, or viciously slandered by Media Inc. Now though, with the advent of the internet, ....wielding a cheap keyboard and any old internet browser, alarmists and screamers like myself can beam a warning to the farthest corners of the globe with the mere push of a few buttons. It doesn't mean that anyone will necessarily listen, but it's still a good thing. It's not surprising that draconian internet regulation is lately appearing on every government drawing board on earth. 末It's a good thing that there aren't any more cops than there are right now, federal or otherwise. I mean, how screwed up could it really get if every time you burned an herbal cigarette, or a pile of leaves in the backyard for that matter, ....or everytime you went to the next state to stock up on liquor, or tobacco, or fuel, some paunchy two-bit sheriff with striped pants and tin star would fine your ass or toss your butt in the pokey? 末It's a good thing that in spite of oppressive and confiscatory taxation machinery in place at every level of government, there is still a way to go to work less than 20 hours a week, only 5 minutes away from home, and still earn a comfortable living (I'll tell you how for 1 measly gram of e-gold). 末It's a good thing that spring is just around the corner and that there's a decent affordable golf club 15 minutes down the road. It's also a good thing that I have time to stroll around the course 7 days a week, if I like. Otherwise, I might be as big as a house. 末It's a good thing that there is an off button on that foul but irresistible device called television. In spite of its few desirable attributes like professional golf and baseball World Series coverage, old movies, and as an internet monitor, television is no less than the modern opiate of the masses (more effectively taken in conjunction with alcohol and entitlement checks). Television's destructive potential as a propaganda tool in government's hands may well have been incalculable until the advent of the internet. 末It's a good thing that the internet genie is out of the bottle. Scheme as they will, the powerbrokers cannot stifle the free communication now filling the web. The old masters are nervously wringing their hands now over an impossible riddle: how to bottle up the freely flowing communications that are fuelling the information age economy without killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Beautiful, ain't it?
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