Samhain

Now and Zen
This is my favorite holiday of the year. Harvest time. People celebrating with pumpkins or jackfruit or whatever they please. The best part is dressing as one pleases. That should be the fun part.

It is a huge drag, though, that election time in this country immediately follows the celebration of the harvest, Day of the Dead and Samhain. This year, just like 4 years ago, the American people have been duped again into thinking that they are safe and secure in the hands of the people who run Washington, D.C.

I've always thought it odd that Bush has been given credit for anything. He, like Reagan, is a very plausible public speaker to those with little education and lacking in critical thinking skills. There is no excuse for people with education beyond the 8th grade voting for Bush. Sorry, but even the country's intellectual elite will vote for him. I'm not referring to those who might have gone to Yale on a scholarship. They worked for their education. How Bush got in is obvious: his family could pay, and etc.

On the whole, though, I'm an optimist. The media and Washington D.C. elite will not win this time.