ory about the "evolution of light" which explains
why the Hubble Constant is nothing more than a bad assumption from a guy
who got to play with big telescopes for free. But that's a story
for another time....
...
I just finished reading the above listed issue [September 2019].
It reminded me of many things about which I have always wondered.
I won't touch on all of them, but I will get to a few. Right away
you answered a question that I have never asked; how old you are.
Thanks for the info. Also, I tend to comment on things in a different
order than they are written. (moving right along)
It
was all very interesting reading. I guess the undocumented people
[Chains,
September 2019, page 1] simply highlight the disparity in wealth worldwide.
It's pretty much that way here too. I suppose that it is possible
that doing without all of those things that you mentioned has served to
keep you more healthy. They are all actually quite stressful.
I'm sure that I personally take a lot of things as granted.
![15x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x5_Page_Background.gif) I
enjoy reading the letters to the editor. A really good discussion
about gravity [ September
2019, page 2]. Things that deal with the death penalty [ September
2019, page 2] I will leave for others to discuss. I will
read more later and try to keep my writing skills up.... T. M.,
Winter Park, Florida
Yes,
now that you mention it, I haven't been inside of a driver's license office,
a court house, a social security office, an unemployment office,
a police station, or any other such obnoxiously stressful facility for
30 years or more. I've also been pretty successful at avoiding airports
and banks. I recently heard that the federal gestapo is setting up
roadblocks, demanding ID even for passengers, and forcibly abducting undocumented
people from their vehicles. If that's actually true, then maybe I
should also start avoiding the streets and highways.
Regarding
undocumented people generally, my opinion is that we should end our mindless
fixation on getting them all documented and, instead, become undocumented
ourselves. Government ID is a tool of a police state.
editor
Frontiersman,
Greetings
to ya all from Arkansas, I don't know if ya all saw on the news, but yesterday
morning here at the prison, we had a convicted murderer escape, and it
was a big deal involving the state police, FBI, and they called out the
search dogs and helicopters, and they searched all throughout the day and
late into the night, but then early that next morning they found him sitting
up on top of the roof of the prison, so my question to you all is do you
think that he should be charged with escape, because technically he never
actually even left the building itself?
Howie in the Max
Dear Frontiersman:
Nineteen
sixty nine was a wild year in U.S. history. The Vietnam war was raging,
the Black Power movement was being smashed by the F.B.I., and the year
was punctuated by sensational events, such as the Stonewall riots, the
Apollo moon landing, the Woodstock festival, and the Manson murders.
I
was sixteen years old then. I don't claim that I was a precocious
political pundit, but I was generally aware of current events. Virtually
everyone with access to a newspaper, radio, or television had an opinion
about what was going on.
Fifty
years have passed. I would love to be able to say that the passage
of time has given me marvelous insights into that history, but such is
not the case. All I can do is share three changes that have happened
to me in the intervening time, and let readers interpret them as they may.
1. I
was a devout Roman Catholic. Now, I am an agnostic.
2. I
used to believe that capitalism was great. Now, I think that Karl
Marx was mostly right.
3. When
I was sixteen, I thought that when I turned sixty-five, social security
would take care of all my basic needs. Now I understand that I will
have to work till I drop in my tracks. The amount that I could get
from social security, if I applied for it, would not be enough to cover
my living expenses. If I took social security while continuing to
work, it would complicate my income taxes to an unacceptable degree.
I
will add a sort of postscript: I recently read a fine novel called
"The Sympathizer" by Viet Than Nguyen. It's a spy story set in the
Vietnam war. Although it is fiction, it's one of those books that
uses fiction to convey truths about life. I highly recommend it.
That's
all for now.
Sir Donald the Elusive
Organized
religion has been the most hellish influence in the known history of human
society. You're well rid of it. I don't know about Karl Marx,
but it seems to me that Theodore
John Kaczynski was correct. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme
scam.
editor
[Written
on a Post-it, attached to a book of stamps] A small price for
the truth!
R.O., a prisoner
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