Wednesday, June 01, 2005
bus driver deep throat's streetlight manifesto?
So, there you are. How’ve you been? I haven’t seen you since last week; sorry I have been busy over the long weekend and at work recently. Not difficult work, just tedious crap.
So what’s happened since we last spoke? Ah, let’s begin with the bus driver fighting those middle school kids in Florida. The particulars of the situation as I understand them are as follows: the bus driver told one kid to put his seatbelt on, his step brother then cursed the bus driver for “picking on his brother.” The bus driver lost his cool and slapped the kid and grabbed him by the throat. The latest is the boy’s won’t face any charges, and the driver faces battery charges. Now kids can be assholes, granted, and sure they can press your buttons to the limit, but a person that must be in contact with them cannot, under ANY circumstances, lose his/her cool and behave like this. In my opinion, the guy should lose his job and maybe have some probation. The battery charges should be dropped. Sure it’s not my kid, and if it was who knows how I would feel, but I can tell you this, my kid would not have the foul mouth that these kids displayed. We can’t lose sight of the fact that these kids should have sat down and put their frigging seatbelts on, that’s the bottom line, had they done this nothing would have happened. This doesn’t excuse the behavior of the bus driver by any means.
My boys Streetlight Manifesto are playing the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, on June 18th. I am heading to the show and am very excited about it. I was turned onto them, well actually Catch 22, from a friend of a friend of a friend, whose brother is actually in Catch 22. I saw them (C22) in concert first at the old Birch Hill Inn (now closed down, RIP) in Sayreville NJ and just naturally gravitated to Streetlight Manifesto. Both are excellent bands in concert and deserve my recommendation. If you get the chance to see either, you totally should.
Next, from the ‘who cares?’ bin > the “deep throat” informant finally revealed his identity and apparently it is some 90 year old man and NOT porn star Linda Lovelace as previously suspected. Wow, I can finally sleep at night knowing the identity of the guy who revealed the “scandalous” tapping of phones at Democratic HQ in Washington. Phew, that’s a load off my mind…. thirty-three years ago.
Did you see the picture of him on Yahoo? Tell me he doesn’t have the look of “Ooops, I just crapped my pants,” on his face.
The Associated reports that Iraqi security officers are concerned the US may leave Iraq too soon. Relax guys, Bush and Cheney made a statement earlier this week that they foresee the US withdrawal by 2009, at a final cost in the trillions! Nice, do I smell the campaign slogan for the Republicans in 2008 of “don’t vote us out of office yet, we are the only ones who know how to “win” this war.” Sounds silly, huh? Don’t laugh, more or less this slogan and little else worked in 2004.
So what’s happened since we last spoke? Ah, let’s begin with the bus driver fighting those middle school kids in Florida. The particulars of the situation as I understand them are as follows: the bus driver told one kid to put his seatbelt on, his step brother then cursed the bus driver for “picking on his brother.” The bus driver lost his cool and slapped the kid and grabbed him by the throat. The latest is the boy’s won’t face any charges, and the driver faces battery charges. Now kids can be assholes, granted, and sure they can press your buttons to the limit, but a person that must be in contact with them cannot, under ANY circumstances, lose his/her cool and behave like this. In my opinion, the guy should lose his job and maybe have some probation. The battery charges should be dropped. Sure it’s not my kid, and if it was who knows how I would feel, but I can tell you this, my kid would not have the foul mouth that these kids displayed. We can’t lose sight of the fact that these kids should have sat down and put their frigging seatbelts on, that’s the bottom line, had they done this nothing would have happened. This doesn’t excuse the behavior of the bus driver by any means.
My boys Streetlight Manifesto are playing the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, on June 18th. I am heading to the show and am very excited about it. I was turned onto them, well actually Catch 22, from a friend of a friend of a friend, whose brother is actually in Catch 22. I saw them (C22) in concert first at the old Birch Hill Inn (now closed down, RIP) in Sayreville NJ and just naturally gravitated to Streetlight Manifesto. Both are excellent bands in concert and deserve my recommendation. If you get the chance to see either, you totally should.
Next, from the ‘who cares?’ bin > the “deep throat” informant finally revealed his identity and apparently it is some 90 year old man and NOT porn star Linda Lovelace as previously suspected. Wow, I can finally sleep at night knowing the identity of the guy who revealed the “scandalous” tapping of phones at Democratic HQ in Washington. Phew, that’s a load off my mind…. thirty-three years ago.
Did you see the picture of him on Yahoo? Tell me he doesn’t have the look of “Ooops, I just crapped my pants,” on his face.
The Associated reports that Iraqi security officers are concerned the US may leave Iraq too soon. Relax guys, Bush and Cheney made a statement earlier this week that they foresee the US withdrawal by 2009, at a final cost in the trillions! Nice, do I smell the campaign slogan for the Republicans in 2008 of “don’t vote us out of office yet, we are the only ones who know how to “win” this war.” Sounds silly, huh? Don’t laugh, more or less this slogan and little else worked in 2004.
