Cigarette Butt Bums -2

The stupid looking man at the bus stop was yelled at by the disgusted

RIPTA driver : " Don't blow your smoke into my bus ! "

      While the traffic light was still red, the nicotine nitwit puffed

away on the precious remains of his cigarette - for him a basic necessity

of life.

     I suspect that the brain of the heavy cigarette smoker -under

microscopic examination- will look as repulsively rotten as his lung

tissue.

    The Tobacco Road cretin tossed the drool covered butt onto the

sidewalk before boarding the Pawtucket bound bus - the original

inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's " Horror at Red Hook ".

     There is a story  in the Providence Journal this morning that

will alarm environmentalists : " DEM's inaction endangering Rhode

Islanders "  ( Dec. 30 ) .

        It is about time we include those highly toxic cigarette

butts among the hazardous environmental wastes. Why is the cigarette

slob's habit of of carelessly discarding them EVERYWHERE not challenged ?

      Think of the millions of people who smoke a pack or two a day

and of the impact all those poisonous butts have on the eco-system!

    This nicotine addiction is as insidious as heroin addiction.

Cigarette companies survive on the LIE of advertising, associating

the filthy habit with the pleasant life.

      Tobacco company scientists MUST  routinely LIE UNDER OATH .And

so must their bought and sold lawyers - like Clinton persecutor, Ken Starr !

      But even on December 30, SPRINGTIME IS JUST A PUFF AWAY. Just

thought I should end this rather bilious letter on a cheerful note .

How to prevent hospital strikes

            Hopefully the present tragic strike at Women and Infants

    Hospital will end with a sane and just compromise. Militant unionism

    here - if it never forgets the needs of the patients -and if it avoids

    Teamster Union frenzy - can accomplish its modest goals.

           But militant unionism is no solution to the really big problems

    of the American health care system. Sooner or later working people

    will see the wisdom of nationalizing the entire health care industry

    as a concommittant to a National Health Care Plan.

            All strikes will simply be prohibited by law at our nationalized

    hospitals. There will be no more FOR PROFIT health care in this

    country. And health care will be a universal human right.

Helen Gurley Brown - a joke !

Leon Trotsky wrote somewhere in his " Diary in Exile "  :

    " Old age is hideous ! " . Those words of the eternal revolutionary

    hit me hard again when I saw the 76 year old " Cosmopolitan " editor,

    Helen Gurley Brown , being interviewed on TV. This woman who vows to

    fight old age until THE END, is the worst advertisement for FACE LIFTS

    on this absurd planet.  She should marry Eddie Fisher - who has

    also challenged ETERNITY - in vain - with a horrid face lift.

            What a mockery of youth - the remade face of Helen Gurley

    Brown . Instead of looking 30 years younger, she looks about a

    1000 years older.  Gazing at that horror, I was reminded of the

    pathetic countenance of an unwrapped Egyptian mummy. If the

    mummy could talk , it would express its complete shock that

    life beyond the grave is only a mockery of life , just as

    " youth " in old age is only a mockery of youth .

            If I were God, I would punish Helen Gurley Brown and

    Eddie Fisher for their vanity : They would have to spend an

    eternity staring into each other' s facelift face !

             Now I must go out and buy another large bottle of

    vitamin pills with ester- C .

Latin School debate

I read with great interest Paul R. Murphy's letter in the Boston

    Globe this morning : " Don't penalize white-working class kids at Latin "

    (Dec. 29 ) .

         A number of cogent editorials in our Providence Journal , I believe,

    lean toward Mr. Murphy's position : " It was only admission into Latin

    School that gave me a chance at a decent secondary education ". It is

    noteworthy that Mr. Murphy " as an Air Force pilot in Desert Storm "

    never felt the fear he did as working class kid in Boston's disastrous

    busing experiment. The elitist-Left just ignored the plain truth that

    white-working class kids also " struggle for excellence ".

           I must admit that I joined pro-busing demonstrations at the

    time. I did indeed observe the most vile hatred for blacks on the

    part of South Boston whites. Even the American Nazi party joined the

    the Boston bussing circus !

          But for a long time now I have believed that the political Left

    - despite much honest good will - played an opportunist role in the

    school desegregation controversy. And they often showed complete

    contempt for the white working class - " infected with racism ".

          If you study left-wing publications today like " The People's

    Weekly World " and " The Militant " you will find along with the

    healthy dissenting points of view  on big social questions, a little

    too much pandering to RACE .

           You would think that even Karl Marx was no friend of the

    " privileged " white working class.

        Was not the socialist position  on education for years simply

    that it was a universal human right - not something for working

    people of different races to fight over - like hungry dogs over

    the same puny bone  ?

             Lies can never serve the working class !