Mossy Sludge Turns A Week Old

And the author turns 59.

Alas, it is not a day of joy and celebration. There are people living in tents in big cities, and in Portland, about 2800 are sleeping on the streets. These tent cities were called Hoovervilles in the 1930's, so I think we should call them Bushburghs today. I don't wish to live in a Bushburgh, but some people don't have any choice. I am lucky. I have a family that can back me up so I don't have to become homeless.

There are tea parties going on all over America today, as if our biggest problem was too much taxation. These right wing folks have history all screwed up. The Boston Tea Party was about being taxed without having any representation in government. These right wingers were the government for most of the past 30 years, so let them dump tea in the ocean if they want. I've had representation for only 3 months, and I'm all for stimulus plans. As I've said many times before, I'm still waiting to become stimulated.

It would have been a better statement to have had tobacco parties. Everyone should have dumped cigarettes into the sea. You buy the cigarettes, which now cost a lot because of taxes, the cigarette companies get the profit, and no one gets cancer for smoking them. Everyone wins. Come on, people, let's work together.