MADER'S 'BRANTSal-Zarqawi
July, 2006 -
Hello kiddies. I haven’t written in while because life is full of changes. For me it has been a move to the wonderful wilds of L.A. and the glamour that is Hollywood. But fear not my friends I haven’t let all the glitz go to my head. Actually it’s easy when ya live with two roommates in a three room apartment with no AC and we are struggling to make the rent.
Ahhh yes but we are “Living the dream”. Oddly I always thought my dream had hookers, cocaine, loads of cash and a big house involved but I digress. Besides life if nothing if it is not about change. This brings me to this weeks “Brant”.
My birthday is fast approaching and I have started to notice some things that I find unsettling. Of course I have the usual complaints. I weigh more and it’s harder to lose, and yet I have less hair and getting it back is harder still. But for reasons unknown it grows in places it never did before. And people say God has no sense of humor.
Then again these are things we all face as we age. The thing that bothers me the most is the growing feeling that I am losing my fire as I age. I don’t seem to feel things as intensely as I used too.
I can remember times in days gone by when I would be able to focus on a goal for years at time. To be tenacious. To be self righteous. To have a true sense of caring about an issue or believing in a cause. Now it all seems rather trivial.
Of course the standard response should be that as you age you gain perspective that you lack in youth. This is true of course. There are things I believed to be wrong in my twenties that I can look at now with more experience and see that perhaps not everything is black and white.
At the same time there is a nagging feeling that a small dark numb spot has developed in my psyche. A place in which it is all too easy to dump those problems for which I choose not to deal with. Even more disturbing is the sense that the spot is slowly but gradually growing.
It’s that strange sense of growing apathy and the willingness to settle above all things that I find most disturbing about growing older.
So what does this have to do with al-Zarqawi?
Nothing really. He’s dead someone else will take his place. Some will hail it as a victory other as the creation of a martyr most folks just don’t care because they have bills to pay and mouths to feed and the world just keeps on spinning.
I suppose though that you could claim that for all his faults he did at least die for his convictions. I wonder if that was comforting as he had a 2000lb bomb dropped on his head.
Later,
Mader
MADER 'BRANT ARCHIVES
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., the Rainbow/Push Coalition and Corporate Terrorism
June 11, 2005 -
Deep Throat chokes. The French swallow. And they both swap spit.
June 3, 2005 -
The George Lucas Oscar Petition
May 24, 2005 -
Car accidents, Insurance People and Con-Artists Part 2
February 28, 2005 -
Car accidents, Insurance People and Con-Artists Part 1
February 21, 2005 -
Iraqi Elections
February 6, 2005 -
Divorce in America
January 30, 2005 -
Xmas, New Years, and the Holiday Funk
January 9, 2005 -
What Do You See?
December 24, 2004 -
Seven Sure Signs a Movie's Gonna Suck Monkey Nuts
December 10, 2004 -
Scott Peterson, Yasser Arafat and other global morons
November 24, 2004 -
Bush Wins the Election
November 7, 2004 -
The Boston Red Sox, Elections and Other Poopy
October 25, 2004 -
Presidential Debates and the VA Administration
October 11, 2004 -
Taking Your Vacation
October 5, 2004 -
Things I Learned from Watching CSI
September 26, 2004 -
The Republican National Convention and Other Stuff
September 7, 2004 -
Lending People Money
August 30, 2004 -
Back to the Moon, People!
August 20, 2004 -
Mader's Annual 7 Hottest Women in Hollywood
August 12, 2004 -
O'Reilly vs. Moore
August 1, 2004 -
Jon Bonet Ramsey
July 24, 2004 -
Al-Queda In America
July 11, 2004 -
Polls, Voters and Politics
July 1, 2004 -
Beheading People
June 25, 2004 -
Reagan's Funeral
June 16, 2004 -
Iraqi Prisoners
May 14, 2004 -
The War on Terror
April 9, 2004 -
Sex and Sickness
March 26, 2004 -
The Freeway Sniper
March 19, 2004 -
Censorship: Part II
March 12, 2004 -
Censorship: Part I
March 6, 2004 -
Flying Ain't What It Used to Be
February 27, 2004 -
