Dinosaurs Still Rule the Earth

All the news that gives you fits. Does experience count for anything anymore? Today's Newsday had a review of "The Interpreter" by its 20 something review crew, IMPULSE. What a great name for these 20 somethings-no thought is involved-just a knee jerk reaction, an involuntary impulse. Most of these KIDZ hated it because it did not have enough action. One 20 something complained that if you expected the film to be like the first five minutes (where there was an execution by gunfire) then you should get your money back. Another spent so much time at the concession stand and restroom that she probably missed crucial scenes, so of course she did not understand it. Can't the younger generation appreciate the dialogue and the coming to grips with mortality portrayed by two academy award winning actors, Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn? Does everything have to have car chases? Newsday revels in the greatness of these 20 something reviewers. I applied online a few months ago to be a possible Impulser and I am still waiting to hear (FFC-right?) from them. These young reviewers have not the experience enough of this "thing we call LIFE" to appreciate the finer nuances of loss and redemption that we veterans have been through. What is it with this glorification of the youth culture? Certainly we newly arrived AARP members have much more disposable income than these 20 somethings! We "baby boomers" have shaped this country both for good and for bad (look who's president) and our voices (the voices of experience) surely count more than this pablum of drivel served up daily by Newsday's IMPULSE review Crew. We dinosaurs need to start asserting out rights and opinions before it is too late. We have already seen a Wogical ripple of the "suck-sess" of this so called youth culture at the Wog. "The Interpreter" is a real life drama on a multiplicity of levels, like an onion skin, that these 20 somethings cannot begin to comprehend. All they can do is whine and cry and give up before getting to the crux of the matter after peeling off perhaps only the first layer. Go and see "The Interpreter" for yourself and see how well you can relate to the plot and excellent acting. That's the problem with critics-they feel that they need to be Critical in order to be Successful. All they end up doing is sucking themselves.

Ripple Effect

All the news that gives you fits. Once upon a time some few new people cashed a check on Thursday, even though they were told not to deposit it until Friday because that was the date on the check. These people who profess to know everything, though they are really quite wet behind the ears, due to lack of years, convinced their respective banks to cash the post dated checks a day early. Because of their hubris, this year we are not getting our checks until Friday even though there is no work on Friday because a select group of new people refuse to listen to the advice of the dinosaurs. This is only a ripple in the fabric of things yet to come now that the few new have usurped the vox populi. It's all wogical when you look at it.

Long Live John Paul II

All the news that gives you fits.If there were ever a Pope ready for Sainthood, it would be our dearly departed Pope John Paul II. He had the moral convictions to correct some of the earlier errors of the Catholic Church. He forgave Galileo for daring to state that the Sun, not the earth was the center of the universe. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem "to forgive" those of the Jewish persuasion for allegedly "killing Christ"--he then set the record straight by saying the Jews were falsely accused for over 2,000 years and then apologized to all Jewish people for this malefaction. He spoke out against tyranny and injustice. He practiced what he preached. If only he had lived longer, perhaps he would have given women their equal status in the Catholic Church.

The world is diminished greatly by his absence. Hopefully, the new pope will follow this beloved pope's example.

Vox Populi

All the news that gives you fits. Well, as Hunter S. Thompson said, "It is a generation of swine." Jesus said "Don't cast you pearls before swine. The time has come where dinosaurs no longer rule the Wog. Long live the Newbees. Hopefully, this new generation will live up to their words. I've always been a "judge me by my deeds person, not by my words." But if George W. Bush can be re-elected after the 9/11 tragedy, the lack of WMDs in the Iraq invasion, and driving up gas prices, then I guess yesterday's election only makes "wogical" sense. I expect pigs to fly soon. The truth is out there, and what goes around comes around. The paradoxes in the World of Wog abound. How on one hand, can you teach about "Freedom of speech," and on the other hand, be party to a brand of hooliganism that prohibits that same right of freedom of speech by sanctioning the illegal removal of a letter from other people's mailboxes without their knowledge or consent? It is "wogical," seems to be the only explanation.

A few years ago another windbag huffed and puffed about change. The change happened and the windbag did not live up to his campaign promises. George Santayana said, "Those who refuse to remember the past are doomed to repeat it." The winds of change blew like a hurricane yesterday, hopefully the tsunami of an aftermath won't follow.

Thanks to all for their support. In the words of Mick Jagger, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, that you get what you NEED!" More to come as this new chapter unfolds.