Whispers in the dark and things that go bump in the night

February 14 means Valentine's Day, or the initial scene from Some Like It Hot. On the day that commemorates a brutal shootout in Chicago and the celebration of love, expressed via Hallmark cards, flowers and chocolate, it is important to have measured expectations and a realistic baseline.

In the misunderstood oversized belt buckled adaptation of Saturday Night Fever, Johnny Lee sings about “looking for love in all the wrong places.” The problem is looking for love, when you should be open to feeling love.

From the first moments you are held and kissed by your parents, our   heart attempts to teach our mind what we need to feel loved. Over the next decade and a half  the consequences of life wrestle with the ideal of perfect love.

Just before any understanding could be reached, hormones run rampant and sexual desire trumps everything you know to be true. Emotional truth is defenseless against a cute smile, soulful eyes, a tight butt and cleavage. Much the way that puffing on a Marlboro is a substitute for maturity, with an acknowledgment Elvis Costello, “There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.”

Despite going hungry at the buffet of lust, the heart continues to beat, ever hopeful to be heard, recognized and touched ever so sweetly. Unable to speak in a sea of emotion, lost on a tide in search of a notion; lub-dub...lub-dub... lub-dub beats your heart and with smiles and tears, in longing through the years… It wants, it needs, it feels for that perfect time to be touched and love again.

From the pure love of God, to the magical love of a mother,  we search to find the perfect silence, in the presence of another that allows love to wash away the ashes of the past.

True love promotes sacrifice, compassion, joy and recognition of all that we are… and all that we are not. True love creates families that can instill the traditions and purpose of love in others. 

Lub-dub...lub-dub...lub-dub,  listen to your heart, speak only with your eyes and smiles. From the time we were born, we were more than conversant in the foundations of emotional truth.

Lub-dub...lub-dub...lub-dub,  listen to your true love's heart. It should sound a lot like yours. 

Mom Tell Him to Stop, He Is Trying to Change The Internet Again.

Cuba, North Korea, China and now the United States of America or all on the same side of the same issue.  Fascists want control. Free people breed accountability.

With the economy in uncertainty, with our borders a sieve, with the deficit greater in last 24 months than the entire first 200+ years of our country… The big issue is “net neutrality.”  To quote Graham Nash, "In a land thats known for freedom, how can such a thing be fair?"   (The ironic part, this lyric is from Chicago, the same city as our current president… Spooky, isn't it)

Thinking like this will drive the current Congress, in its last days, to single digit approval ratings. "Net neutrality”  is an idea sold as protection and freedom of speech, surprisingly which  provides neither.

The fascist elements of our government do not want people to look up policies, practices or conduct of the elite body of legislators. Net neutrality will force search engine companies like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft to provide “alternative opinions” to searches. The ruling class fears an informed citizenry may reject the partisan actions of political whores masquerading as lawmakers.  

Their  goal is to dilute critical thinking by contrarians with pablum from propagandists. If you want to read Thomas Sowell, read, Mr. Sowell.   There is no reason to have a Maureen Dowd piece polluting your browser. At the same time, if you are interested in what new and brilliant thought Keith Olbermann had come up with, is there any reason to see an op-ed piece by Rush Limbaugh?

The guise of protecting children from inappropriate web content is better left to parents. Each computer not only comes with an on/off switch. It also has an electric plug which can be removed from the socket rendering the machine to be nothing more than a paperweight. 

Little Johnny and Judy do not need web-enabled phones, or computers in their rooms to corrupt the pure thoughts that routinely grace the minds of children.

If you're going to provide descending opinions, are their enough opinions from credible sources to go around?

If you are searching for an article published by a Los Angeles-based hermaphrodite, would it need to be balanced by a piece from a Boston-based Eunuch? What if they both had the same opinion on the Madonna's “Just Like a Prayer” video?   Would that mean there is only one valid and universal opinion?

While 2% of legislators might be concerned about what happens on the Internet, 99% of the people in the real world  can tell the difference between “internet truth”  and truth.  

Try this example...  Google the phrase "world's greatest rock 'n roll brand'.   The  result, correctly, is the Rolling Stones. If you doubt this and believe it is either John Lennon's old backup band, Led Zeppelin, The Osmonds, KISS or The Shags is the correct answer, does seeing  The  Stones  in the top spot make you do anything other than shake your head? Would seeing a story about Guns and Roses or Megadeth influence your opinion?

 To quote Neil Young, the greatest Canadian folk rock/grunge artist of all time,  “you make the rules, you say what's fair. It's  lots of fun to have you there.”