Bless the balmy day and the intertubes too. Toss out the black machine screen and the Karl Rove boob tube. Or something.

Wendel Berry, in "Window Poem 19" * reminds me of the important and significant work, responsibility, and duty to have principled people working together to bring cultural reform.

*...Within things there is peace, and at the end of things. It is the mind turned away from the world that turns against it.*

I add 'changing yourself for the better too'...

The Jack Cafferty File took an 'eternity' to download, but worth it, and it's good to know CNN's etc., more and more will air what's critically impt. Duty.

(ot-but a op-ed in the NYT, by Valerie Seiling Jacobs, "Packing for the Ineffable," expressed real human concern for her son, not related by blood, who has set out on a journey to Iraq)

I'm always optimistic, believe it, or not, (no lie) and back to my scattered focus aim: WORDS 'harmonicon,' and all the associated words: harp, harmonic motion, Harmonia, harmonious, harmonize, harness (horse), harpoon..and so forth...[working together] in real community.

The dangers really lies when a individual group subverts a good aim. If a bullseye shooter aims to shoot a target that assist the WHAT is good for all, we 'zen' then wish to aim straight, fly right, and fling the 'arrow' with a healthy pull-back string tension, and not purpose to stab or poke ones eye out. At least aim.

The word, 'sin,' is derived from...a individual who will NOT try to aim straight, but wants to shoot, hurt/abuse/rob/lie etc., 'others.'

Public officials do betray and 'kill,' if they do NOT protect individuals. If they form/pay-allegiance....to a partisan mob-group-think, which exploits others, it's a 'ole-time mortal fault.

Public dialogue and discussion, in the First Amendment, as I partially understand these Lessons in free speech, and the Bill of Rights, express our inherit dignity...on and on...BUT, it quickly gets muddled in error, filth, and freedoms and liberties, inherent in each individual, are infringed upon and denied...DANGER...and it sure is destroyed as fast as burning hot shit in a compost pile, and if character assassination and war-murder is condoned, that's FILE 13-dead-man e-mail beezlebub. Bad.

What is happening in our larger society, I hope, is these freedom/liberty privilege need/are being wrest-back. I realize the significant majority who read Salon can express it far better than me/some. It's a study in life and a correcting our own individual 'test-papers' and remaining honest.

It's a diff, "hide papers' 'stuff' and so no one can copy from you? Or, we share our honest truth. Debate. But then commune. Adjourn. We all must pass Life. We correct our-self. We like a good doc, and excise the danger 'cyst' that will spread to ruin the nation. If a bad doc forgot the scalpel or scissors, and sowed up a leg wound or zipped our chest-cavity up in a individual, a (button club neocon doc) Body-Politic would make a larger world fester and sicker. A politician can't be respected if he thinks/vain-hope and would say, "No Worry, the scissors will form a protective bubble-around the sharp edges and you'll see them get dull in time." "SHop at Irag's Farmer's Market." Wow. Like you mean "surge" into a pot of boiled-blood? We won't get burned and Baghdad blistered if shot? Wrong. If delusion, and a monster-mouth revels in blood-letting, SUCH crap talkers must be excisable (sp)?

I'm only just learning about Bill of Rights and how many interest inevitably intersect and free speech is the cornerstone that makes for a healthy (edification) body politic.

Just before Mary McGrory of the WaPo died, I was beginning to speak with her about a personal matter that really was a serious matter that taught me, "that when guarantees are robbed, not protected, a downward spiral danger can affect the freedoms and issues of all related freedoms." Miss McGory said "we can't find a refuge escape from the moral law---those who hold that their is an 'escape' ...these words, no ethical transgression except an indictable one." She despised Mr. Rove. She hated his vileness. Me too. People like him are NOT unexcisable. He's a whole rotten liver floating 'crap' down the river. Silt. He floods the land and ruins everything. No respect. Indict.

Anyway, I rambled in another 'risk' dimension. I jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and some nice person was there to catch...and read...Thanks, THIS: "It turns on affection now," said ____M. "Affection. Don't you see it?" --E.M. Forestor, 'Howards End'