Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or the same changes, sometimes. Or more of the same, sometimes.

Or maybe the only change is more of the same.

... but dead is dead.... and that don't never change.

.... and when some things are broke....

they can never be fixed. That hasn't changed.

Silent Soldiers on a silver screen

Framed in fantasies and dragged in dream

Unpaid actors of the mystery

The mad director knows that freedom will not make you free

And what's this got to do with me

I declare the war is over

It's over, it's over

Drums are drizzling on a grain of sand

Fading rhythms of a fading land

Prove your courage in the proud parade

Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made

And they're afraid that I'm afraid

I'm afraid the war is over

It's over, it's over

Angry artists painting angry signs

Use their vision just to blind the blind

Poisoned players of a grizzly game

One is guilty and the other gets the point to blame

Pardon me if I refrain

I declare the war is over

It's over, it's over

So do your duty, boys, and join with pride

Serve your country in her suicide

Find the flags so you can wave goodbye

But just before the end even treason might be worth a try

This country is to young to die

I declare the war is over

It's over, it's over

One-legged veterans will greet the dawn

And they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn

And the gargoyles only sit and grieve

The gypsy fortune teller told me that we'd been deceived

You only are what you believe

I believe the war is over

It's over, it's over

I'll have a spot of lemon with mine, please!

OK Doke. They are having one of dem dere tea bagger parties in de old town on satzurday. I am praxiting speaking down and tinking dumm soza I can understanz everything. It really shouldn't be a reach for me.

But I talked with Karl from de Noosepaper and he sayz he's agoing and Todd from Ob's said he was gonna go,,,, and seeing as my life at 10am on satzurdays is not really very taxing.... I think I will go two. ANNNNNNND.... a special guest apperince is gonna be...

JOE DAS Plummmmer!!

Well, Boy&Howdy! that really sealed the deal for me! I have always wanted to see someone who is stranger than fiction.

Now, if there was anything stranger than the Sarah Palin from the last election... it was Joe the Plumber......

WHY...... the guy is still around is beyond me.... and if he was such a hot shot plumber... why he isn't working and paying taxes instead of showing up in Wisconsington to speak at some tea party.... is beyond me. I found an excert of an 'interview' he gave to a Christian magazine

( ok, help me out here.... a Christian Plumber is better than a Pagan Plumber?)

Christianity Today: In the last month, same-sex marriage has become legal in Iowa and Vermont. What do you think about same-sex marriage at a state level?

Joe: At a state level, it's up to them. I don't want it to be a federal thing. I personally still think it's wrong. People don't understand the dictionary--it's called queer. Queer means strange and unusual. It's not like a slur, like you would call a white person a honky or something like that. You know, God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do--what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins. I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

Gees.... "It's not like a slur" ???? I wonder what he thinks of Jews and Blacks. I think the guy's shit is backed up!

Oh, Well.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.


Jim Harrison

I live in a friendly town

in other news....The Wisconsin Tourism Federation has decided that their acronym is no longer appropriate.