March 18th, 2002

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Good Day, Kiddies

So, no Kult game last night...rayce was running late and I was engrossed in playing "Metal Gear Solid 2"; when I tried to stop, maybe put on a movie, I was informed by the rest of the room that watching me play was better than a movie, and not to stop...LOL...there's just something about your friends getting into your game like they would a movie, and reacting well. Good game, too.

I cannot concentrate today....I know I have the next 2 days off, and I'll be spending them with Di, and tomorrow night I will be seing Rob Zombie. Add to that Di getting me all riled up over IM...and I'm no good at work today.

And I love it.
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The Ant and The Grasshopper, American Edition

(ganked from discordian)

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard the original version of this story. For those who have been living under a rock in Taliban infested countries, I'll recap:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the Winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

Well, my dear friends, the times they are-a-changin'. Life is no longer as simple as it once was. It's no longer the matter of survival of the fittest. Our society has been changed to the survival of the weakest. It is with no small amount of grief that I present you with the updated version of the old fable.

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share."

Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire aproportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the
grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of Federal judges that Bill had appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug-related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.