Branching Out Ahead of the Rot

Well, here it is Saturday morning in the Land of the Fee and the Grave of the Homeless -- lets face it folks -- what we got here is a high-tech Banana Republic

Like many Americans I switch on the old cathode box and peruse the menu of catastrophes -- calamities -- clusterfucks and --chaos

Ah, which one should I go to first?
My god that oil spill

Sounds like they just oughtta rename the body of water the Gulf Oil of Mexico.

They say it may get so bad that people will be able to pull their cars up to any parcel of the gulf shore and fill up their tanks

I must laugh to keep from crying -- Mark Twain -- Very insightful chap --
Or, oh yes the Goldman Sachs grilling charade -- The Common Wisdom is that most of these exemplars of the dark side will walk--But Maybe, just maybe Obama is starting to reach political puberty and acquiring a pair-- Time Magazine will tell
--maybe.


Oh, but wait a sec -- what about poor Sandy Bullock with that cheatin' horn dog Jesse James--Uh Miss Congeniality!! (and in this case she really seemed to have earned the title)--HELLO!!-- Didn't the guy's name give ya a clue??
Would you date a guy named Jack the Ripper??

And new adopted baby on top of it Oy!!

Oh , and I almost forgot!! -- Wasn't there some kinda big deal over in Haiti a few months back... wonder what's happenin' there? --Oh well
and what about what's doin' over there in the Middle East?? that's what my mother would always describe using Yiddish, A "Mansah (that's the best I can do phonetically folks)without an end!!" While no child prodigy at ten, I deduced enough from Mom's face, tone of voice and dismissive wave of a hand that a Mansah was not a good thing!!

You know, the older I get the more I realize I shoulda listened to my parents more -- yeah much of it was bilge--but oh those timeless nuggets of truth--I fear we've tossed those away like golden nuggets with the dirty pan water I'll digress from the original non sequitur it reminds me of Paul McCartney's beautiful Let it Be, and how its provenance dated to the time when he was disconsolate over the break up the Beatles -- He said he dreamed of his late mother, Mary -- Her favorite soothing expression when things went bad for her family and friends, was "Let it be" -- I'm experimenting with the true wisdom of these words in these "times of trouble"

Meanwhile -- back to Mickey Rooney's latest auto-biog
A View from the Abridged...