Blog from the Future Past

We were married at the Fujisawa Catholic Church by an Irish priest on September 15, 1990. May sought out an english-speaking priest so that the ceremony could be in my native tongue and I would know what I was promising. The priest had been in Japan so long, however, he forgot the english words and kept lapsing into Japanese.

The ceremony took place while the eye of a typhoon passed above the seaside city.

Most of the day, it rained wan-chan tô nekko-chan.

The long-running late night show has long been window a into the trendy Hollywood lifestyle, but as far as we know here at Blog from The Future Past, this is the first time the west coast glitteratti have taken the lead from the trailer-trash sub-culture, perhaps an indicator of the poor US economy.

Pop culture psycho-analista Gabriella Stompanazi of Heiny Magazine explained the new fad to Media Fool; "You can make enough crystal-meth to put a hurtin' buzz on a half of a Beverly Hills disco with only about $30 worth of over-the-counter cough medicine and a few inexpensive kitchen utensils you can pick up at any Target," she explained.

If nothing else, I thought at the time, people would seek to understand each other across their cultural dividers... perhaps a dialogue might bloom that could bring the Muslim and Christian worlds together with better understanding and mutual tolerance.

I always hope for the best and keeep an eye out for the worst, but even I underestimated the capability of George and his band of Military/Industrial Strength pinheads to screw things up.

After that awful day, we had the good will and heartfelt sympathy the rest of the world. Hearing only the drumbeats of war and calls for revenge, the Bush administration cynically used the Nine-Eleven tragedy for its bizarre political ends.

America has never been the same since... economically, for sure, but also spirituality.

Land of the Free and Home of the Brave rings hollow when your bombing people, holding them without due process or even torturing them. It didn't have to be that way... it was a choice, and a bad one.

Everyone should love us because we're the Greatest Country in the World™, but we're now a Sweet Land of Liberty used to be, wandering lost in a world without pity.

You get what you deserve when you elect a lightweight. The boneheads are always an easy choice, a convenient out.