More attitude

It's the attitude!

I'm just as funny as P.J. but not as nasty.
O'rourke hit the nail on the head for me when he complained that the
Sports Car club of America wouldn't let you drink and race at the same time.
Which just spoils all the fun.
Ricky Bobby knows what it is really all about.
So does Jack Black.
We are animals and have animal urges but we have to spend most of our energy controlling (if we're smart) or denying (if we're not) them.
It's the denyers who cause all the trouble.
It's the denyers who suffer.
We all have the snake at the base of our brains, with onion like layers of socialization covering it all up.
To pretend that our fantasies are going to "bring peace" or "end hunger" is nothing but schizophrenia.
Those who pretend that they are going to "change the face of Christianity" are absurd.
The only way to honor diversity, tolerance, and love of god, self and neighbor is to practice those things.
It's just like learning to play an instrument.
If you want to learn to play a flute or a hammered dulcimer, you practice.
You don't sit around wishing you could just walk into a party, sit down at the piano and rock out.
You practice beforehand.
Which spoils all the fun, according to our British cousins.

One needs a most cursory skimming of history to see this.
Great fantasies like saving your soul and going to heaven leads to thousands of years of bloody conflict added to thousands of years of bloody conflict already endured by the sane people of the world.

Great fantasies like the french revolution. Liberte Egalite et Fraternite et Madam Guillutine. Non?

Half a million dead to "free the slaves" and create the KKK. Turning the black population from an economic asset to a despised and abused minority.

Purifying the race by murdering 6 million, which is ironic because according to the Bible, (which I take as mere human opinion and not necesarily God's word) Joshua, when he fit the battle of Jericho, started it all by deciding that the proper thing to do when he got his troops to the promised land was to kill all the people and take all their stuff.
I, personally, don't believe this was any big change in human behavior.
It's not the Jew's fault.
It's not the Republican's fault
It's not the Nazi's fault.
It's just the way it is.

Much as I'd like to take a Ferreri and a bottle of Wild turkey on a wild ride along Lake Washington Boulevard, I don't
I don't because I believe that we are all in this together.
That the laws are for the protection of all. and...um
Actually I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a Ferreri

We could, of course, be nice to each other.
But that takes real courage.

So...to all you lunatics out there....Get real, brothers and sisters.