Hammer Mill Days

We don't have a garage. This is an abandoned hammer mill, built when people didn't have cars. There is no garage here, get me? Now DON'T CALL HERE AGAIN! ( Click ! buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... ) Got to love these small town managers. It's bad enough that they pass an ordinance against squatting in abandoned properties (something Lincoln is convinced is aimed directly at us, lawyer that he is); now they've got one against all night parking. Thing is, we - that is to say, the core members of the musical collective known as Big Green - don't even have cars. We're not parking overnight on the street because we've got nothing to park. No, no - they're complaining about the big, blimp-like space vehicle we rented for our recent interstellar tour, which is still hovering over the mill like some kind of sales promotion. (The owner has yet to pick it up.) The town would hang tickets on the thing if they could find a ladder long enough. (They're talkin...

A little more off the top of my head. One of these weeks I'm going to take some pains over this posting, but... not this time. Don't worry, Kyoto. Canada's pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol (can you say "tar sands"?) and Durban was a bust. What's it going to take, people? We had massive tornadic storms this past year. We don't have the luxury of another decade of inaction and ignorance. See you in health. One of the issues that comes up in our perennial presidential campaign is that of health insurance, mostly in the context of so-called "Obama Care". What doesn't get discussed so much is, well, the only possible positive solution to the current situation, which is bankrupting individuals, bleeding businesses dry, and threatening to drown the government in red ink. The only constituency the current health insurance system benefits is private health insurers. Seems like we, as a nation, sacrifice a great deal to preserve their profitability....