My First Blog

So I've never done any sort of blogging before, but I've had too much on my mind lately to keep completely silent. In the words of Bob Dylan: our world is "sick and it's hungry and it's tired and it's torn. It looks like it's a dying and it's hardly been born." The Israeli conflict has spiraled out of control; Iraq has erupted into civil war (you can call it what you like. I call it civil war); North Korea has just threatened to test another nuclear weapon, adding to the instability of the east; the Pakistan and Indian fued has only been furthered by a republican backed US/India nuclear pack (I have an idea: at the same time as we are trying to disarm North Korea and Iran, let's go ahead and contribute to India's nuclear proliferation. That won't send any mixed, or rather, hypocritical messages); our imperialistic forms of trade continue to isolate us from the world, espeacially in South America; and Russia, the largest nation on earth - in the measurement of land - has adopted the AIDS/HIV virus to the extent that it's very survial hangs in the balance. And yet, what what do we do about it? We turn off the TV, ignore the depressing state of affairs that the world has found itself in, and go about our lives as though nothing is happening......so that's why I decided to create a blog: to remind everyone of the troubles that they are so impudently trying to forget. Yes, I will be that guy. Don't worry, though. I might tell a you a joke or two; I might even show you a nice picture every now and then to brighten your day:

I love you Vida. Someday you and I will marry, copulate, and produce many children.

Anyways, it won't all be depressing....I promise!