I feel the Bern, but people tell me he's not going to win. Its OK...I've had no children, and he was pretty much the last best hope for some sanity.
I've kind of sunk a bit into a bit of ..not depression...but dissatisfaction maybe. I need a few moments to recover. I probably need to start being a little more social out here. Everything is very physical, but not so social for me since Halloween. I've not been to a bar since then. I only surf, or kiteboard, or sail, or play ultimate, or go to the gym, or..well I guess that's it.
They had a Veterans Day out here. They brought two guys who fought for this island back in the day. I read that 300 American soldiers died, but somewhere around (a lot) like 4000 Japanese soldiers died when the US took this island back in the day. My friend Ted did some rudimentary calculations. Enough steel was sent to this island before the Marines landed (steel being bombs and bullets) to cover this whole six mile island (90 acres I think I read) 1/8" thick. Very few trees survived (like 9). Unexlploded ordinance is still being found. A nine hundred pound bomb that had not detonated was discovered some time ago by someone mowing grass. The blades of the riding lawn mower apparently were "hitting something". At the time, I hear, the US needed a "concise" victory.
That was 60 years ago. Humanity has not made much progess in "getting along" since then. We've made progress in many great ways, but in the areas of "earth citizenry" and "earth stewardship" we've made not an ounce of progress.
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