To study the Way is to study the self.  To study the self is to forget the self.  To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

Dogen Zengi (1200-1253)

DANGEROUS IDEAS

We were having a discussion about ideologies recently, on someone else’s page – and it got me thinking. I am a total individualist, do not subscribe to anybody’s ideology of politics or religion, I don’t belong to any group of any kind, and I reserve the right to change my views and actions as the world unfolds around me. The good thing about thinking as a group is – sometimes like-minded people can get things done in the world (good or evil). The worst thing is being so rigid in your beliefs that you have zero ability to compromise, even in the smallest details, be open to learning new things, or listen to others’ opinions. Which is more dangerous to society?

JUST SHOOT ME

Today’s Miami shooting report: Police officer shoots man dead after suspect bites his finger; 2 dead after a shootout on I-95; police gun down 3 teenage robbery suspects. But fact is - unless police are involved, or more than 2-3 people are killed, shootings are so ubiquitous - they rarely make the news. It’s not about Miami’s murder rate (we don’t even make the top 20, nationwide); but just the sheer number of shootings, surely somewhat due to Florida’s incredibly slack-ass gun laws. In the past four years, there were 647 shootings just in Miami’s inner city, average of 3 per week. I’m not sure anyone would notice a terror attack in Overtown unless these towel-heads really step it up. Before you hit Miami, mo-fos, listen up, we ain’t shook: WE SHOOT BACK!!!

THE 'BRO'

If women can flaunt their breasts, squeezing them together, pushing them right up into everyone's face, until they're almost popping out of their tank tops, revealing everything right up to the edge of a nipple - why is it wrong for men to display their junk?  I think I’ll invent a new style of pants where men show off their balls with push-up underwire “bros”.  The testicles will peek out through a hole in the pants, so you almost see the penis, but not quite (quite the delicious tease, right?).  I think this new under-garment, which I’ll call “wonder-wear” will be super appropriate not only for the club scene, but also worn with a nice suit.  Oh, and women will be chastised for staring at them, or regarding the guy rocking this look as a "membo".