Furibundum

What the hell is an enneagram, you might ask? I was completely clueless myself up until earlier this afternoon when, as luck would have it, I happened upon the Enneagram Central web site. I don't know how, I may well have had my fingers on the wrong keys Googling one thing or another. In any event, there I was invited to "explore inner terrain," likely a variation on what I might have intended to Google in the first place. Yes, please. Clicked through to learn that: The fundamental premise of the Enneagram is that each of us has one dominant (not exclusive) energy that drives us in everything we do. This dominant energy is our greatest gift so we use it too much and it becomes our chief fault - or sin . This energy, like a prevailing wind that bends a tree permanently, sculpts our inner terrain and shapes our entire life. Figuring which one of the nine possible types your inner terrain might be should help get a fix on your biggest problem in life and your greatest gift,...

Yesterday I wrote a post, but did not publish it, about why even me being a gay guy and everything still not understanding all this huff about Obama's selecting anti-gay preacher Rick Warren for the inaugural beseeching of the Almighty for auspicious divine guidance on behalf of Barack from day one of his new job. I mean, I honestly do not dislike Rick Warren. His Purpose Driven Life book is the second all-time bestseller next to only the Holy Bible, and he does have some particularly excellent worthwhile perspectives about a lot of things in that. I might go so far as to say that not only do I not dislike him, I actually kind of do like him. I could explain why but that's not my point here. Then, however, while pecking away at the keyboard and remembering and listening again to his commentaries categorizing my own sexual orientation alongside that with the pedophiles and maybe those fucking their own sisters (or brothers, I suppose, whichever), everything just short of engagi...

The most job losses last month seen than in the last 34 years. More folks receiving unemployment checks ever now since 26 years ago. Ten million unemployed, not including of course the seven million not really unemployed but working only part time from necessity so therefore ineligible for that tallying. Oh yeah, and the nearly three million who have just given up on even ever finding a job and not looking anymore (hand raised here) and those also whose unemployment benefits to tide them over have expired, too (other hand up) who don't count either. And still only just yesterday W. used the word "recession" for the first time. Really? Lame duck whatever, more like eight years of lame ass. Trillions in bailouts to the already rich guys, blank checks written with no accountability whatsoever to this or that corporation while some of the rest of us are sinking so far down we don't have a clue which way might even possibly be up and we still the ones expected to pay for t...

Surprise to me! I had a very unexpected opportunity this evening to actually watch the movie that I blurbed about the other day. The one about George W. Bush being shot dead. Fantastic flick, definitely deserving of every award won! I mentioned in the comments on that post that I thought it funny how despite hardly any commenting, traffic stats certainly did spike with that "Death of a President" movie title. Hmmm. Interesting. [ As an aside, did you know that from 1840 until now every president elected in a year ending in zero was assassinated or died while in office? Except for Reagan, of course, but even he at least took a shot. Tecumseh's curse might have been broken with that one. Then again, November is still months away and there are exceptions to rules ... so maybe to curses too? Okay, I should stop now. ] Anyway, back to the movie. Highly recommended! And muchas gracias to whichever of the Muñoz mailed to me the DVD! Going through my mail today there was this ...