i began apologizing to my kids over a decade ago. i told them "we weren't really trying to fuck everything in the entire world up, that's just how it ended up."

sometimes the ideas of our tombs being robbed reminds me of the wisdom held in our style of burial on the rez. because the mountains are full of rocks with a shallow bedrock table, we bury on scaffolds. unlike the kiowa, arapaho, souix, and cheyenne nations our traditional burials don't involve any regalia or personal possessions. we have our designated places, where we build a scaffold and lay a naked warrior to rest, rot, and feed the birds. there is nothing to identify corpse or bones. which comes in handy for discouraging any interest of archeologists.

so, go ahead. rob our graves. once we lay our dead down, we are pretty much done with them.

riots and strikes in greece, romania, china, france, and the netherlands so far.

not a peep from the americans. no rage, just sullen, sheepy compliance.

Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.

Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly;
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap;
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve;
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

vachel lindsay

riots and strikes in greece, romania, china, france, and the netherlands so far.

I really don't think they'll condemn us anymore than we condemned our recent ancestors for the stock market crash of the 20s or the depression of the 30s.

What I do hope is that the future generations will know and remember who all the rubber-stampers were that helped create this economic turmoil; who were in the partisan "Party of Nope" that voted in lockstep against fixing the problems they helped create; and that there were many who actually, even if just a little bit, did try to help make things better.

The real blame belongs at the top, where the buck stops; and on the tax cuts/warmonger/profiteering politicians and their bobble-head media parrots who sold out their country for the better part of the last 30 years and during the last administration, especially.

It seems that the Big Media hologram that grips vast majority of Americans is so cleverly constructed, orchestrated, and maintained that few can do more than await the next dose of pacifying hypnotic or distracting titillation, nor do they see the need to do more. Past and future barely (and rarely) register on the radar screen anymore.

Puts me in mind of the T.S. Eliot quip, which I think goes something like this: "We had the experience, but missed the meaning" as well as its loose converse: "We got the meaning, but missed the experience."

Will enough even notice what's missing (the "sacked future," the "vanquished past')?

BTW, DW, have you looked into Freecycle in your search for quality used goods? A friend claims he's had some good results.

Good morning, Dark Wraith

You have my solemn oath that if I live long enough to tap dance on the graves of Bush & Co. that my grandchildren will be the heirs of the videograph of me doing so, along with the those very tap shoes so they may do the same to my own grave.

If there is a flaw in this plan, I haven't found it yet and Lord knows, I'm looking for one.

Mule darlin',

Do not the spirits of bygone Missouri mules stand guard over the graves of the recently departed same, thus preventing the shenanigans of intruders such as you have described?

I recently sought to visit the gravesite of a dear departed Missouri lady, affectionately know as "The Brentwood Battleaxe", with the intention in mind of sprinkling some pepper on her grave, and was pursued and assaulted by hideous beings screaming dire imprecations. When I protested, "But she was the only woman I ever really loved!," they attacked with renewed vigor and I barely made it out alive.

Grrrr