Don't bother me

I'm busy.

Happy happy joy joy

Two girls who look like best friends or sisters watching a free REM concert. At one point the girl on the right looks at her companion, who is beaming a smile that can be seen miles away, nods her head in agreement that the moment is beautiful, and returns her gaze and grin to the show.

Expendable

These people are mentally ill Nigerians. They have committed no crimes but are locked up indefinitely, sometimes for life, in filthy, cramped quarters with no medical or psychiatric care. Their families have abandoned them and they have no chance of recuperation, recovery or reentry into society.

Stop the war NOW!

Heartbreak multiplied by a factor of thousands.

Morning introspection

FROM BBC: The invitation to the world's D-list malcontents reads as follows: No matter how corrupt your moral sense, how contorted your view of the world, how vapid and inarticulate your ideas, how talentless you are and how exaggerated your grievance, an obsessive audience will watch your every move and turn you into what you most want to be, just before your death (regarding Mumbai terror attacks).

Lonely, scared, mentally ill

Yet another day.

Watched a great documentary based on Chalmers Johnson's book, "The Sorrows of Empire." I thought of Orwell the whole time. The program details the neocon desire for perpetual war, propaganda used to scare the public and justify our loss of civil liberties, the smash-and-grab redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy via the war economy and tax cuts, resulting in international isolation and bankruptcy for the U.S. It's so absurd and illogical, and the propaganda techniques so heavy handed and diabolical, that I often laughed out loud as if I were watching Strangeglove rather than the ruin of my country.

Still optimistic

Jewish saying: "Live if only to satisfy your curiosity." When all else fails I reach into the abyss my hopes once filled and retrieve this nugget. My other two fail-safe reasons for not snuffing myself: 1) I haven't exhausted my resources; 2) we'll all be dead and completely forgotten soon enough.