New York City Has Become

I Did A Filmstrip On Pollution In The Davison Area As My Eagle Scout Project And Showed It Around Town. Businesses Who Were The Polluters Were Mad At Me.

As A Quiet Salute To Beavis And Butthead, I Held Up My Index Finger And Thumb In An "l"-the International Sign For Loser.

I Come From The State Of Michigan. We Were The First English-speaking Government In The World To Outlaw The Death Penalty, Back In The 1840s. We Have Never Had, As A State, The Death Penalty In Michigan. I Was Raised With That, And Even Republicans In Michigan, Nobody Would Even Think Of Putting A Measure On The Ballot To Have The Death Penalty.

If The Guy Out In The Woods With The Michigan Militia Is A Real Estate Negotiator, Instead Of Some Crackpot, And Has A Normal Life, That's Unnerving. You Don't Want To Think It's As Normal As The Guy Next Door, Hedging His Lawn. It's Easier To Demonize Or Separate Them Off From 'us.'

I Don't Want To Involve Myself In The Various Arguments About Why Israel Was Created . . . . . I Want To Deal With The Situation At Hand Which Is The Ongoing Killing On Both Sides. . . . . . . It's True That There's Also Much Oppression Of Palestinians In Arab Countries, Where Palestinians Aren't Allowed To Vote Or Own Property And Are Treated As Second Class Citizens And Pawns In The Fight Against Israel. But I'm Not Going To Spend My Time On This Since There Is Isn't A Whole Lot I Can Do About It.