The Used Kharma Lot

HALL OF SHAME
Text Box: Ralph H. Benson is a certified villain, convicted of first degree murder for shooting and decapitating my friend , Roger (Radman) Erdman. The trail to justice cost me a few thousand in legal fees, the loss of a few people I thought were friends, and the year’s time the criminal justice system spent bringing Benson to trial in Lincoln County. I knew from the first minutes at the missile silo Benson killed my friend. Unfortunately, for very legal reasons, I’ll probably never tell how I knew this was true, because of the very police I asked for help on Day One of the search for Radman. From that point forward, I couldn’t help but protect my home and family. It’s an old Berkeley thing I learned in the 60’s. Ralph Benson died in October 2004. Good riddance. NOBODY kills my friends and walks away. Nobody. Text Box: Back Home
Text Box: Ignorance Text Box: The biggest villainy in the United States today, aside from the grotesque gene-damaged generation that is about to assume some limited control over society, has to be the epidemic ignorance, the dumbing down of America, which has defeated America in a time of war, without so much as firing a shot. Those of us approaching retirement age with some considerable trepidation have good cause for concern, but not simply for the Social Security nightmare. Not only have our advanced degrees lost most, if not all, their original meaning (I can remember when I was proud I had worked to earn a Masters Degree), but those in power in Washington, D.C. seem to think that having a generation of addled easily-led idiots is an acceptable substitute for what was once the future of the greatest nation in the world. We blindly accept the falsehoods an intellectually-challenged President has told us without question; we ignore all the warning signs from everywhere in the world that the so-called war on terror has become a religious holy war, pitting our military might against the Islamic culture. We pander the blithe imagery and tokens of nationalism and patriotism as an acceptable substitute for truth, honor, and common decency. We have sold our legacy of good jobs for those willing and able to learn technology overseas for the sake of a buck. However, the greatest injury done to our great nation is that, in our ignorance, we have sat idly by and allowed our essence, our freedom, to slip through our fingers in the name of a false sense of security. And thus we have begun the descent into a predictable ignorance from which we may never return. We, the easily-led, stupid Americans, are the worst villains in the Hall of Shame.