Saw Al Green in concert tonight. He didn't sing much but he put on quite a performance. Everyone said he was high. He certainly acted like it. But it made me realize, how much of it is about sounding good and how much more of it is just about putting on a great show. 

I am receiving some hate mail for my mad public political ranting and modest expression of desire for peace on earth and goodwill among us all. Ad hominem attacks with no real points but filled with good ole American patriotic hatred towards anything which questions authority or does not conform entirely to the greedy corporate hogs called Country or Religion. I do not want to think of this war anymore. It is a lost cause. The propaganda machines of the New Roman Empire are at full speed. The best we can do is try to live with honor and dignity amongst the murder lies and deceit that pretend they are the way of this world. I am tired of trying to convince people that the sky is blue. If they cannot see it from just looking up at the sky, if they do not know it in their hearts, then we have no choice but to ride gallantly through our lives secretly and joyously glancing up at the blue sky every now and then and if we pass one another on the street, one of us with the knowing, then perhaps then we will wink at one another. And raise our glass to toast ourselves and the vision that we keep in our hearts for a right and just and noble future for humanity. One day it will be ours.