#NoKings. We never needed royalty to guide us. Any kind. That includes #NoKingofKings, too. Western religions in particular are obsessed with the nobility of God. But there’s far too much kneeling, bowing and scraping in all of it. How about a spirituality where we’re all equal? Like democracy?

It’s not like Epstein & Maxwell were the only pimps & slave traders serving this world’s wealthy, powerful, & morally corrupt old men. The Epstein files are important, for a minute. But until God is at least a hermaphrodite, or female, the guilty will find excuses & not listen to the victims.

Watching Dracula’s Widow, I ask: if a woman has been alive 600+ years, who gave her that horrible haircut and lived? That seems unlikely, to me. And I LOVE ridiculous vampire premise movies :)

At 61 the alluring scent of retirement is like the smell on the breeze of a perfectly grilled steak out of sight, just down the street from a grill you will never visit. You know when they’re cooking out. It’s just a sniff. And yet, sometimes that sustains you. Until the next time you need to eat.

The greatest Brit-Pop band ever. #pinkfloyd youtu.be/aGPjfj69cXE?...

Welcome to Louisiana. Home to great food, verdant landscapes, and all kinds of strange critters. If you don’t like the weather, just wait five minutes. It will change. Probably get worse, no matter how you define that.

While it's true that morality actually has no need of and is not derived FROM religion, it's obvious that religion (at least American Christian Nationalism) is dependent on morality. And sadly lacking it.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Mark II. Adding Glover & Gillan was a metal masterstroke. But their LPs 2 & 3 are my faves. This song & the drums on the next track, Blind, made this a permanent sound in my car back in the day (a Tuesday, y'all remember). #DeepPurple #IanPaice youtu.be/RfRJqBQ5eTM?...

The real message of #TradingPlaces: the rich & powerful lose power if you take their $. A turd (or someone painted like a turd) without $ soon has no friends among their former "high-class" wealthy crowd. The cure isn't just voting & witnessing. Stop paying them & trying to be them. Be nice instead.

Yet another beautiful day and all we can talk about is El Douche and the Turd Reich. What is wrong with us? We are. Obviously.

#jiddukrishnamurti said it was no great achievement to appear sane in an insane world. In fact, that may be the clearest way to tell someone’s elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. Saying you’re sane and well adjusted isn’t quite the same as finding balance and peace, is it?

The most dangerous threat to the Trump administration and their legislative and judicial toadies and wealthy patrons is the country they claim to represent. At least, the country they think they’ve already poisoned and is dying to make them $. That’s right, these yet to be United States.

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What divides us now is not our political views, but our ethical beliefs. #Truth

I’m not selling a dream. I’m not even offering hope. I’m just trying to find out what’s real right now, while it is in front of me. Because it doesn’t last, and isn’t even real for very long. And neither is the thing I call me that’s looking. But that’s hopeful, isn’t it? It is to me. YMMV.

When I saw #JulianCope in early 87 at the #Roxy, it was the first and only time I'd ever seen someone use one of these microphone stands. Interesting idea to elevate yourself above the crowd. Especially since it was an industry-only special showcase gig. LOL. youtu.be/2UJbz-pp6GQ?...

Why is our defense budget so much bigger than almost all of our "allies" combined? It ain't to protect the interest of the little people. It's so when we say we're #1 or the best at everything, everyone is afraid to tell us we're full of shit.

What makes an alien legal? What makes them illegal? Money, power or old white folks with both. With an imperialist & racist plan you'll be legal where you land if you have enough guns (and God). Put the heathen and hateful indigenous folks already there to work or death. Ain't that the American way?

Because when you’ve got Mentat eyebrows you should never be afraid to use them. Once your thoughts acquire speed, you have to just let them run. If they love you, they’ll come back. Eventually. IYKYK. YMMV. LOL. OMG. E.T.C. #Dune #DavidLynch

#BuckminsterFuller #CriticalPath 2/2 Money is not wealth. Wealth is the accomplished technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accommodate all growful needs of life. Money is only an expediency-adopted means of interexchanging disparately sized, nonequatable items of real wealth.

Two pillars of thinking from #BuckminsterFuller on which I've based most of my life: When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty… but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. 1/2

I tend to tie it back to Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous (1980s) since that's my memory. But I am tired of TV about rich people, esp. reality shows: real housewives, spoiled nepos, sports, politicos (CSPAN, talking heads), celebrities, televangelists, royalty, red carpets, etc., Enough already.

Don't define yourself by identifying only what you're not, what you're against or what you hate. That's not nearly enough to make you a whole human. Talk about what you like, what you think, what you know. That too is only temporary (because nothing is permanent), but it makes you worth knowing.

If you stop giving them your money, then what's your money for? That's the trap they've set, and you're caught. You can't even get from Point A to Point B without relying on the infrastructure built by the robber-baron rich to maintain power, wealth, and control in someone's hands other than yours.

Yes, you have a right to speak your mind. Freely. Despite your inclination to sow hatred, division, fear, suspicion. But you do NOT have a right to use my microphone to do it. Nor do you have the right to demand that I listen to your bullshit. Especially if you say you speak for me or on my behalf.

American religion has always been political. That’s why it’s broken & also why American government is broken. We learned how to use faith as a weapon & tool for division & fear from the beginning & used “manifest destiny” and other imperialist, xenophobic and bigoted tools to”win”. Why change now?

Sadly it doesn’t really matter whether Trump is in the Epstein files or not. Because nobody’s going to lock him up anyway. Who’s got the juice to do it? Not our judges or legislators. The old boy network is alive and well. All it takes is a lot of someone else’s money. The kind billionaires have.

If winning is ending with the score me = 1, everyone = 0, it’s time to change the game. If we’re not all on the same team, there’s no team. What did Sengchan say? If you pick a side, it’s the wrong one.

Folks who always say, “show me your proof this actually happened” are the first to believe in conspiracy theories, secret liberal cabals, & wildly obviously fake and fabricated lies to foster division claims? Oh, that’s right. It’s only real if it fits your illusion. Where do you get your Kool-Aid?

Come out to see the Wizard (or Professor Marvel) at our Cybersecurity Awareness Event at Natchitoches Regional Medical Center. Prizes, valuable information, and your favorite Emerald City guides from the IT department :)

What folks in our government are doing is SUPPOSED to be illegal. Unfortunately the enforcement of law is the province of the Executive Branch. And we know who’s in charge of that. The fox is picking his teeth in the henhouse. And the dogs guarding it have been neutered.

If you can't, won't or don't hold yourself accountable for your actions, there's no use hoping an invisible divine friend, parent, or overseer will do it for you. And don't hold your breath waiting for karma, come-uppance, or any other kind of retribution to do the work required to clean THAT swamp.

The separation of church & state is NOT for the state's benefit. It's for the church. Not to push gods out of the public arena. To keep your spiritual quest safe from the inevitable corruption involved in serving your own interests more than anyone else's. No matter how holy your cause might be. 3/3

Spirituality is a personal journey, despite what religion claims. Any entity that controls behavior to keep order & accepts bribes from wealthy seeking merit is not sacred or worthy of running a country that is responsible for collective well-being of ALL its inhabitants, citizens or not. 2/3

A Christian government or country is not really Christian, any more than a Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, or Hindu country is really any of those religions. That's because religion and spirituality are individual. Not actually a collective. 1/3

Thanks, #HenryRollins, for the reminder. This is DEFINITELY shaping up to be Punk Rock Time :)

Stupidity is generational in America. It's not new, nor is it any less disgusting. And yet, in the name of "freedom of speech" (including things that really should be classed as hate speech), we allow these ass-clowns public time because we secretly WANT to blame someone else for our own failure.

If you've heard me sing this, you'll notice my rendition is somewhere between Tony's original and the colossal rendition from Brook Benton. Maybe that's since I learned how to sing at age 9 from Elvis records. Once my studio is up, I'll record it :) #TonyJoeWhite #MusicSky youtu.be/het5D9KVkXM?...

Always ahead of his time, that #CarlSagan.

When we say lock 'em up impeach & fire them, who are we imagining is going to do this? The checks and balances inherent in the system? The legislators and judges with high moral fiber and intestinal fortitude? When we win all these court cases against these criminals, who's gonna enforce the law?

Just imagine how many veterans' programs, educational improvements, healthcare options, and other worthwhile things could be funded with the money if ICE is defunded and disbanded. It doesn't take much imagination. Just a little guts and willingness to stand up and be counted as pro-democracy.

...and we're all "folk" aren't we? Everything single thing in the universe (humans, animals, birds, insects, fishes, rocks, stones, mountains, and rivers too) sings both its own unique individual song, and in harmony with everything else. Or it ain't singing, is it?

Want to make a real difference for April’s Child Abuse Prevention Month? Release the unredacted Epstein files. Or just believe any one of 1000s of its living witnesses and make their testimonies as valid and damning as the powerful denials saying they’re liars.

When the excuse is "I was just following orders" where does the buck stop? In our current scenario, not with the one who mindlessly blurts out some rotten mind sludge from their obviously deficient sense of self-respect and decency. It ends with those who CAN do something about that, but do not.

McCarthyism & the good fight against commie anti-religion, anti-capitalist threats (to big business) crippled the US left. So we twist in place with just a right wing. EXACTLY how Hitler & Nat Socialism (NOT socialism) put Germany First to Make Alleman Great Again - but a one-winged bird can't fly.

“We” keep talking about taking the country back at the next election. Well, what if there ain’t one? What makes you so confident that the useless toadies of either party are gonna make sure that happens? Their track record so far isn’t too reassuring. So if voting doesn’t work, try using your money.

The program is NOT to protect pedophiles. It’s to return them to the ruling class, where the divine right of kings has always justified and glorified their actions.

Speaking of flyover country, here's a song i wrote and recorded ~1996-1997 thinking about #JohnPrine, #WillieNelson and #KrisKristofferson. And #LeftyFrizzell, of course. Back before I was a voting member of the Americana Music Association. #MusicSky #Americana. radicaldruid.com/mp3s/JRL/Obv...

Weather update: Even the damned Yankees like me, who have now lived so long in the deep south that our snow-acclimated blood is as thin as plain chicken broth (without any roux), think this is wrong. I moved to Louisiana for the mild winters. I was dreadfully misinformed 🙂