Child abuse - an inflated evil ?

           Child abuse IS indeed a heinous crime against nature. And it

    should not go un-noticed and unpunished. But does anybody dare suggest

    that it is NOT the sin against the Holy Ghost, the  last word in human

    depravity ? There  ARE greater evils. Just recall September 11 !

           The mass media has a need to obsess on a topic -like Clinton

    and Monica liaison in White House - until the public gets sick of

    all the breathless, hysterical reporting.

               I myself am getting more than a little cynical : Some

    priest patted  you on the fanny 30 years ago ? And nobody has paid

    much attention to it since ? Of course you deserve MILLIONS for

    your incalculable   torment of soul !

                 I am hardly a devout Catholic,but my protective instincts

    and loathing for hysteria and hypocrisy have been aroused.

               There is not a little Catholic bashing going on !

              GOODNESS  still prevails in this 2000 year old institution.

Swallow chewing gum and die ?

 bought the trident gum this morning in the CVS drug store

    in downtown Providence - along with the Providence Journal and other

    dailies. I thought I'd do my teeth a favor - fight that nasty tartar,

    have  a few teeth left in my mouth before retirement day.

                 THIS never happened before: I suddenly swallowed it ! Having

    been recently hospitalized - with a huge bill - I began to have paranoid

    thoughts. Soon I would experience a full fledged health emergency. The

    ambulance will arrive again. How many guys get admitted to the hospital

    for swallowing chewing gum ? What a loser !

                  But nothing happened YET. I had time to consult the Internet

    at a public library. Thank God for " word search " . I type in

    " swallowing gum " . And instantly an article on just that in " Better

    Homes and Gardens ". Relief !  "  Forget the scary vision of a wad of

    chewing gum bouncing around like a basketball in an empty gymnasium...

    gum passes right on through the intestines. It doesn't stick because it

    is not sticky. "

           Now I won't have to retrieve the rest of the Trident gum from the

    garbage can - for my day in court.

Illegals are HUMAN too !

As a working class person - familiar with such once stirring

    phrases as the " Communist International " - once stirring slogans as

    " workers of the world unite " - I am dismayed to read in my newspaper

    today that the Supreme Court - which appointed plutocrat George W.Bush

    to the Supreme Court - now  rules that  " a plastics company owed nothing

    to a  Mexican man it illegally laid off for union activity, because the

    man had used a friend's identification to get the job ". ( AP story by Gina

    Holland ).

               Since the beginning of the Reagan era, the ruling class has

    been determined to set back the labor movement 100 years, to the Robber

    Barron Age.

               Today the greatest force for EVIL in the world is unregulated,

    unrestrained, greedy and reckless capitalism.

                 The heart of Enron is the heart of Wall Street. Even the top

    brass of the Army salutes this corruption .


                The labor movement must not forget old truths : an injury to

    one brother or sister is an injury to  ALL !

No sympathy for Indian casino here

Only by way of chance and the higher immorality do our Rhode

    Island politicians ever do the right thing. Now I hope they end up

    studying this Indian gambling casino controversy for another 20

    years. Oh those poor Narragansetts - languishing with a longing

    for the big bucks. You would think that gambling was just their native

    culture. It is in their blood - like alcohol !

              Demagogues are corrupting the soul of the working class, telling

    them that gambling is the key to the good life. For thousands of blue

    collar people it is a ticket to hell.

              Just say to NO to gambling fever !