Being Human

        Two squirrels were working as a team to gather as many nuts as they could. I say "team" because they apperd to communicate with eachother when the time came to take the nuts off to where ever it is they were taking them. Now I know watching squirrels gather nuts doesn't sound like anthing special (its not) but the question that this observation led me to ask I feel is special... the question is, what is it that keeps one squirrel from killing the other squirrle so it can have all the nuts for its self? I was told as a child that one of the most important things to development is a good sence of morality. Religion tells us that we are inherently evil and that we must spend our lives trying to overcome our natural urge to kill, fuck, rape, steal, ect. Religion also says this sence of morality we develop is one of the things that seperates us from other animals. I find it interesting that two squirrels that never sat through a day of sunday school, never had a teacher read them the golden rule, and hopefully aren't expecting Jesus to save them from their little squirrel sins can manage to work togther (as so many other animals do) without distroying eachother... hummmmmm??? sounds like morality on the squirrels part to me. If other animals were void of morality then they could not coexist. They would destroy eachother in anatempt to serve their own means. Thus, maybe people aern't as bad as the bible, koran, and the Bush White house would have us think. 

                   

As I'm sure most of you know there is a weekly publication that comes out every week called the Stranger. The brains behind this awsome operation is a hero named Dan Savage. For this entry his most recent post on his blog www.thestranger.com will be the subject of review. 

Last week Mark Foley (a member of our congress) was busted for sending some very "sexy" e-mails to some very young boys! turns out this activity on Foley's part had been going on for quite some time. In fact his top aid came forward to say that He had reported Foley's behaviour to Haster's office months before this most recent string of e-mails got him cought! How does something like this happen? How does a member of congress go months sending e-mails chalked full of sex content to teenage boys without anyone saying anything? It would seem that as long as you are rich, white, and hold a post that wields some power you can do what ever you want! This is a concept that to me is very interesting. Time and time again you read about coruption in goverment, coruption in corperations and so on and so on. In fact as time goes on this trend of coruption only seems to be getting worse. It feels like while one group of people presses forward to learn more about the human condition and evolve, another side runs in the direction alination. This makes me wonder: is coruption really getting worse, or do the bad thing that that happen seem more terible as some of us become better people then we were in the past? 

Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated... more latter. 

I love this one I hope you will too!!!!!