Thanks to all that have served.

                                          .

Marines, a few good men.

Entitled "People Simply Empty Out," the letter is both a thank you to his editor for making it possible for Bulowski, at the age of 50, to quit his job at the post office and write full time, and a commentary on the sad and sorry lot of the American worker.

Although this letter was written in 1986, Bukowski's observations are painfully relevant to today's workplace.

Bukowski escaped that particular hell in 1969 when his editor, John Martin, promised to pay Bukowski the princely sum of $100 each and every month foe the rest of his life if Bukowski would quit the post office and write full-time. Bukowski accepted, thank god.

This letter appears on the website Letters of Note. This site is a collection of interesting letters from various people. In just a short perusal I read letters from Frank Lloyd Wright, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Cassady, Barack Obama, Ted Hughes, Iggy Pop and a letter written by a former slave to his former owner. This website has some fascinating material.

Classic.

also,

"Two dead, five hurt in Texas shooting spree"

But I am bitter that our government has forfeited so many American lives for a dishonorable agenda.

I am bitter about the inadequate and often uncaring treatment for those whose lives have been permanently shattered by their experiences in Iraq or Afghanistan. That is also true for those who served in the first Gulf War - the "good war" - as well as for those who served in Vietnam.

IMO more enlighten people vote blue and understand that, for example, when some people hijack a plane with box cutters, the solution is not to arm everyone with a box cutter.  Removing box cutter from the equation is probably going to result in less box cutter incidents aboard planes.  And that giving everyone a box cutter so come feel better is simply ridiculous.

So you can change the gun laws, but lets be realistic, the fools that want guns in their cars at college already have guns in their cars at college. How effective and what is the point of having your weapon in the parking lot which if colleges here are anything like the ones in Wisconsin, is no where near your person.  This would only be an effective means of protection if one were near their car and a shootout resulted that lasted long enough for one to get to their vehicle, get their gun, and decide to get back into the firefight instead of actually leaving and letting the cops do what they are trained to do.