Deep Thoughts

These aren't my Deep Thoughts, but rather some of my favorites from "Jack Handy" of SNL fame.

Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said "Hey, hows it going?". So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said "Now whose asking the questions?"

I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

I think a pillow should be the peace symbol, not the dove. The pillow has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have a beak to peck you with.

I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using blanks.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

"Of all the imaginary friends I've had, I don't think there was one that I didn't end up having to kill."

The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Well, I guess that's enough of that. They do make you wonder about the writers, some of these things are way out there.

London Attacks

Today, London was attacked. Latest reports say 6 explosions in 4 different locations. The final figures for loss of life are yet to be know, but are esitmated at 40 dead and near 1,000 injured.

I want to take a moment and comment on something I saw on another forum. Someone called this attack "7-7" in reference to our own 09/11/01 attacks at the World Trade Center. For some reason this really pissed me off, and I wasn't sure I knew why. I almost responded out on anger on that other forum, but then remembered, "Hey, I have my own Blog!"

The loss of life and property of "9-11" (I hate this term) is several magnitudes greater than what has happened in London today. Don't get me wrong, I feel for anyone that lost family and friends in today's attacks. But our 9-11 was vastly different to their 7-7. I don't claim to be any sort of terrorism expert or history buff. But I do know that London has been been shrouded in terror and fear in the past: WWII and IRA attacks. These things should have prepared the mindsets of those that live there for the type of destruction that happened today.

As Americans, we were pretty smug in our false sense of security, thinking no nation could touch us on Our Soil. And we were right to an extent. It wasn't a nation that reached out and touched us, it was an ideology. The attack on the World Trade Centers ripped the veil of security from our faces, and made us see our surroundings through the eyes of the rest of the world. We were taken down a notch, given a reality check. It was probably something we needed, but did not deserve. I'm going off track... to compare "7-7" with "9-11" is just plain worng in my mind. It dilutes everything that happened in New York, and what America is trying to achieve in other parts of the world.