Attack of the Blob!

So I was sitting on the beach in Negril Jamaica, not a bad place to be, thinking about God the universe and everything. A cigarette vendor came strolling by singing out, "cigarette, cigaretty, cigar, cigaro!" Occasionally he added "marijuana, hashish!" to his song. I was staying at a resort and they gave guests written notice that, "If you purchase from these people, you are supporting an illegal operation..." It went on to warn against buying drugs on the beach. Seems like good advice. It seems kind of lousy though that local people were not welcome on their country's beaches. There are high end resort areas in our country where this has pretty much happened too. Are we becoming a third world country? I sometimes think so, other times I am sure of it!

What are all those clowns up to in DC? According to a report I heard on NPR, yeah I listen to those commie bastards, while congress has been debating how to deal with our debt they have also been throwing fund raisers, at a rate of 100 fund raisers per week! Now I've worked at nonprofits that put on fund raisers. They were major events. Your congressman's main function is raising money. Guess what, he's not raising it from you or me. He's raising it from corporations. Now I know corporations need love too... No wait they don't! As a matter of fact, even though our goofy government has decided that corporations are people, they are totally lacking in humanity. Human beings are loaded with humanity, the good and bad aspects. Corporations are more like amoebas they just consume whatever comes along without conscience or mercy. They are sort of like the monster in the movie "The Blob."

Corporations are probably handy for doing business but giving them the rights of people and then arming them with mega wealth is pretty much suicidal. So anyway there I am soaking up the sun when I overhear another ugly American (could have just as easily been an ugly European) haranguing the cigarette vendor, "I want some of that red haired Jamaican! That weed you sold me yesterday was bullshit!" I bet he worked for a corporation. The blob absorbed people and they became part of it.

Russell