Is Heaven a democracy ?

Amused to read this headline today: " House reinforces support

    for God ". And by a 401-to-5 vote. Nothing like war drums- even more

    effective than Bach - to put the people and their leaders in a pious

    moods. Cynical free thinkers have observed that belief in God - in a

    meddling, anthropomorphic God - is inversely proportional to the evidence.

             Anyway in heaven nobody ever quarrels with God. No such thing

    as democratic debate up there. Until Lucifer came along. Was that guy

    the first original mind, the first FREE THINKER ? Then clearly Satan is

    the patron saint of the ACLU. We will not admit it, but Satan -not God-

    freed us all from boredom !

               And Satan does not demand we sing his praises while he is

    tormenting us. Who dare rebel against eternal crankiness ?

               Yesterday, I overheard a mental patient cursing the Almighty.

    Must have forgotten to take his  daily pill.

               Is war coming ? Praise Bush and pass the Prozac !

Postage stamp honors avowed Socialist Keller

I was pleased to read that the United States Postal Service has

    chosen to honor an avowed socialist and  remarkable human being -Helen

    Keller - with a stamp. I have just finished reading the autobiography

    of one Upton Sinclair - also a socialist who aimed for our hearts in

    his classic " The Jungle " - but instead hit us in the stomach instead

    -with his rotten meat industry story. Sinclair just missed winning a

    Nobel Prize. Perhaps he too - like Helen Keller - should be honored

    with a stamp. I believed he advocated a very tranquil transition to

    Socialism - which would not offend comfortable white Southern aristocrats

    and their friends. At the end of his autobiography this gentle soul

    wonders how the poor can even afford to die !

             The cynic in me also wants to honor H.L. Mencken with a

    postage stamp. He knew that this world was too much to take SOBER !

Skunkin Donuts !

I told you a few letters ago that it is hard to find

    a capitalist nowadays who is not a corrupt thief. Today we read about

    the Dunkin Donuts scandal: the owner of 28 Mass. stores treating his

    help - mostly underaged kids ! - in a way that recalls scathing chapters

    in the first volume of Karl Marx's " Capital "  : Vampire like , the

    capitalist class sucks the life blood out of the workers.

                I have noticed inferior service in many local Dunkin

    Donuts stores. Providence is dumb enough to greet visitors with a

    Dunkin Donuts Center ! Shame on the Renaissance City !

                How many people have noticed the PUKE in their morning

    Dunkin Donuts coffee ? Just unfresh  creme or milk. You never see

    a supervisor around these kids. Yesterday I was about to buy a coffee

    bun at Dunkin Donuts across from the Providence Journal Company. Then

    I noticed the dumb kid was serving them with his dirty bare hands !

           And when a small cup of coffee costs as much as a gallon of

    gasoline, it is time to make your own coffee.

                  DON'T BE A DUNKIN DONUTS ZOMBIE !

No error in NY Times article

I was just able to check the New York Times article  on the

    10 " most beautiful scientific experiments of all time " ( Sept. 24 ).

    There is no error  there on the Cavendish figure for the mass of the

    earth. The error I observed in the Providence Sunday Journal article

    - a figure for the mass of the earth not in exponential form  ( 6.0 x

    1024 kilograms ) - whatever the excuse - originated at 75 Fountain

    St. I hope there is no Channel 6 vindictiveness here. To err is

    human. To forgive ( Buddy ?  Clinton ? ) is divine.

              But when you literally have the weight of the world on your

    shoulders, you should know the TRUE burden !