Thursday, August 10, 2006

Mind Boggling

Imagine a world without coffee. Bleak. But not this morning; all is well and I have a full pot of the magic stuff. I also have a weird cat this morning…she was outside and must have heard me brewing the coffee. That was when she started her loud and insistent “meowing”. When I opened the door, she raced in, eager to be petted, not all her usual aloof self. Normally she has to be coaxed to make an entrance. Now she is pestering me to pay attention to her, pacing back and forth between my legs and then jumping onto the desktop to place herself between the monitor screen and me. That certainly makes her hard to ignore.

OK, she is gone. Her display of affection was only a ploy to make me feed her. She had food in her dish, but she only likes “fresh”. She will soon be asleep in her favorite spot in my shop, under a workbench and far back in the corner.

Some stuff from the net…
In This War, Technology Is Key
“Who is more tech-savvy—drug traffickers or federal agents? The answer may determine who wins the war on drugs. The war on terrorism grabs most of the headlines these days, but the war on drugs is still very much underway...”

Win the war? Who are these people that believe it can happen? It simply boggles the mind to think that there are people who believe you can use punishment (prison time) to change addictive behavior. It will never happen, and as long as we continue to fight this war, we will be spending billions of dollars on a hopeless cause. Money better spent on education, not prisons. I think it was Einstein that said, “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” And he also said, “Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

And that’s what we are faced with in this “war on drugs” and all of the other wars, mediocre minds.

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