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I'm back!!!! I'll talk about my trip later...I don't feel like writing about it right now. But as I was looking at my stats for the past few days I noticed that yesterday I got my first few actually nasty and weird keywords. "Sex tasty" and "pic of naked 12 year old girls."

I'll be away in Reno for a few days, having more fun than you. In the meantime, amuse yourself by visiting the Sadistic Oracle to have your future told!

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So, perhaps it's not as funny as "wild monkey sodomy," "dog masturbation," "cocaine whore," or "family anal sex" and some of the other strange keywords I've seen other people get, but I finally got my first weird one--"urban legend mediation." I wonder what in the world that person was actually looking for.

San Francisco--Down the Crapper?

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors are talking about poop and pee. And no, they didn't revert back to Junior High Schoolers. The debate is over putting public restrooms in the Haight-Ashbury district. Some residents and Supervisors want them, stating that public urination and defecation is a problem in need of solving, while others worry that the trend towards drug dealing, vandalism, and prostitution around other public stalls will happen in their neighborhood.

Public toilets will also give the homeless a place to do their business other than in the alleys, and right on the street. I've seen it, right across the bay in Berkeley. I walk out of the BART station only to see some dirty old guy whip it out and start urinating all over the news paper stands. And honestly, after my four years at Berkeley, and dealing with the homeless population out there on a day to day basis (the fat, sort of balding black woman who chases you down the street cursing at you and threatening you for not giving her your money; the strange black woman with the caked on white make-up all over her face who approaches you in McDonald's and mutters something to you, and then if you ignore her she begins to scream as if she's placing some sort of hex on you; the scroungy run-away teens that sit on Telegraph with their dog, being quite blunt in stating that they really want money for weed) I can't stand it. Why should I fork over the little money I have so that they can support their drug and alcohol habits? Why do I owe them money? I don't owe them anything. My tax dollars go to homeless shelters, and welfare, and job assistance programs, and drug rehab centers to help these people clean up. It's a lifestyle--a choice. Most people who become homeless that don't want to be get themselves out of it one way or another. But being homeless is a lucrative business. Some homeless people in this area pull down as much as $20K a year, tax free. It's easy--look dirty and pathetic, stick out a tattered cup, and threaten to breathe your TB laden breath all over people if they don't hand over the cash. It's not panhandling, it's more like a mugging. And I don't want these people in my communities. So, I don't blame Haight-Ashbury residents for being upset.

Public toilets will only give the homeless more of a reason to stay in these neighborhoods. It's like pouring chocolate syrup all over your house and expecting it not to be covered with ants the next morning. If you build them, they will come. And along with them will come the crime and the filth.

Another Anti-American Celebrity

Tom Cruise recently stated that he believes "the US is terrifying and it saddens me." He called America an unsuitable place to raise children, particularly his own. Certainly there are problems in this country, but honestly I can't think of another country better than the US. There is no other country that affords people the opportunities that America does--opportunities like Cruise himself took advantage of to become a filthy-stinkin rich celebrity with everything he could ask for and more.

It seems that it's all too common for celebrities to jump on their high-horses and run around telling everyone how they should live their life, as if they were truly educated in the matter. Just because they played a certain role in a movie, it doesn't mean they understand it. Yet, they'll tell you that they do. They all act as if they know what's going on in this country. Well, they don't have a clue. Most have never lived the life of a hard working middle or lower class American. Most have never struggled with poverty, or the pain of not being able to provide fully for your children, or of working every day of your life for pitiful wages in some factory so that you can retire at age 65 with little or no money to support yourself with. And despite the toil and pain of many Americans, citizens of this country do not suffer nearly as much as people in say, Afghanistan. Even the poorest in this country are richer than most people in third world countries. A TV? What's that, says the man from a third world country. Nearly every household in America has a TV. Minimum wage? Not in most places. That cool $6.75 an hour some people pull down seems like a million dollars compared to the $1 a day paid to some people in the world who work 100 times harder.

We have it great in America. You're free to speak your mind, even if it is against the government. You're free to pursue your dreams to your hearts content. Religion is not forced on you. You are relatively safe and untouched by the ravages of war which is a constant in the lives of some peoples throughout the world. Sure, there was 9/11. But, it was one day. Not every day. We're lucky in this country. Yet we take it for granted.

For every person, particularly the celebrities, who think that this country is so horrible and evil and terrifying I suggest one thing. Move somewhere else. If you hate this country so much, and think that other places are so much better, then move there. And if you finally come to realize that there is no place better than the US of A, then stop bitching about all of the things you as an American enjoy. Stop trying to knock down the US. Show some love and support for those brave men and women who sacrifice everything to protect you and and everything you have, including your right to trash the US. You don't have to like everything about the US. I don't. But, be truly enlightened, and know that the US is better than anywhere else in the world.