An Apple A Day...

... doesn't keep death at bay - for Steve Jobs or anyone else...

I guess it's a sign of how far out of left/right field I have come, when the hooplah about Steve Jobs dying sets my brain in motion to see puns about "jobs" and "jobless" everywhere in what's being posted on the internet...

And makes me giggle (almost hysterically) when I see media outlets advertise their "live" events re Jobs' death on the same Twitter "moment" that other outlets are highlighting the plight of starving children in North Korea... 

Who needs/deserves the attention more? A dead Jobs or almost dead/saveable children? 

We are, I think, certifiably insane, living in a crazy, crazy world....

I admire some of what Jobs said/did/lived - love his "crazies" piece:

and at the same time he perpetuated the oligarchy's power/control wheel and allowed Third World workers' lives/health to be put at risk in manufacturing the products he created...

String of Suicides at Chinese Apple Manufacturing Plant

Inside Apple's iPod Factories

Apple's Ugly Side

But then, we're all hypocrites at some level...

I guess if your iPad is worth more to you than the lives of human beings and other lifeforms on this planet, then yes, it's appropriate to have a huge public wake for a clever man...

Personally, I think we're better off spending our time doing this:

The More Things Change...

...the more they stay the same...

How Sad, Too Bad...

You're hungry? No money? Too bad...

You're cold? No money? Too bad...

You're tired and need a bed? No money? Too bad...

You're naked? No money? Too bad...

You're sick? No money? Too bad...

How sad, too bad...

 

I've been called "crass" in my time... 

I like to take things down to the unvarnished base... 

And then ask people: "what do you think about that now?"...

Most of them don't want to answer because then they're facing their own complicity in this inhumane nightmare we're all living on this planet...

 

 

The Courage Of The Independent Senator From Vermont...

I guess being independent, with no loyalties to maintain and nothing much to lose, gives one the security and confidence to tell it like it is...

And Bernie Sanders lays it on the line - the greedy are bleeding the country dry and killing off the middle class...

Update: 10 December 2010 - Bernie Sanders addressed the President and the Senate for 8.5 hours straight, explaining why giving billions of dolllars in tax cuts to America's richest people, will bankrupt the country and generations to come...

He's what I would call a righteous man!