Don Imus said he’s a good person who said a bad thing. He apologized and seemed sincere. The Rutgers women’s team accepted his apology.
        Al Sharpton is a good person but did a bad thing — the Tawana Brawley case. He did not apologize and said he would not. He is righteous. He criticizes Imus. The pot calls the kettle black.
        Senator Arlen Specter told Alberto Gonzales he was a good person but seemed to do many wrong things.
        There are good people everywhere who do bad things.
        Prisons are filled with good people who do bad things.
    Armies all over the world are filled with good people who do bad things. They kill and destroy.
        Corporations everywhere are owned and managed by good people who do bad things.
        Circuit City is a recent example. They fired some 3000 of their longest-employed, higher-paid workers to cut labor costs. They can reapply after 10 weeks and possibly be rehired at entry-level wages.
        Northwest Airlines along with most others have dramatically cut wages of all their workers. Flight attendants’ pay is now so low some can qualify for certain welfare assistance. And when they threaten a strike NWA uses “bankruptcy” to have a judge rule a strike is illegal.
        Every minute of every day in this world the good people who own and control business and industry do bad things. They fire people. They take away their pensions and health care. They pollute. They make and sell tons of dangerous drugs and toys and crap of all kinds — to make a profit.
        Watch out for good people.

        Electioneering has been going on for a year now (it only seems longer) and we can look forward to almost another year of the same.
        Any winners yet?
        Yes, one huge winner: the mainstrean capitalist media! Tens of millions brought in for political ads, and the main event still to come.
        A big negative of the scene is that the campaigners must spend so much time raising funds they don’t have time to do the people’s business (after they’ve done the corporations’ business).
        The energy, money and time spent on campaigns is enormous.
        There is a way to eliminate this costly and wasteful process: we can vote at our workplace for starters.
        This voting method would be done in workplaces owned and managed by the workers. People would have the information about the state of the economy and other issues right at hand every day so they could make informed decisions without the years of campaigning we have now (after which we’re no better informed anyway).
        Bad decisions might still be made. But they could be corrected on the spot by recalling representatives who proved incompetent and electing someone else.
        Now, that would be a big, big advantage!

            Many of the so-called “illegal aliens” live in the Southwest U.S., a huge area taken by force from Mexico in the 1846 war. If we went back to the pre-war border these people  would be instantly back in their Mexican homeland, and a big part of the immigration controversy solved.
        Of course, this would also mean the Americans there would become instant illegals in Mexico. Would they be allowed to have drivers licenses? To have jobs?
        Granted, these kinks would have to be worked out. Please send me any ideas you have and I’ll post them next time.