The Splendor that was Rome

This is another Facebook yarn, so to speak. I admit that it was one of my lesser ones.

It's been a while since my modest healthcare proposal. But don't think I'm going to stop yet.

Some people call what the U.S. has got right now an Empire. Yes, I agree. But compared to other empires of the past we really don't have much to say for ourselves. Can we really compete with the splendor that was Rome?

Yes, we can. How?

Public Bath Houses!

Only ours would be co-ed. Making them several times more awesome, if a little bit harder to pull off in occupied territories.

And with that in mind, I describe my affiliation as "Bath-ist"

Me in drag as Vibrata in a college production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum."

To Use My Name

Again this was written before I had officially my own blog and had only written on facebook. Keep that in mind. I just put it here to show why someone who believes as little in blogs as I do would have a blog.
OK, so let me spell out a few things. In the past, I've loved using this facebook page to comment on serious issues, usually in a sarcastic or crazy way and sometimes in an honest way. I'm hoping to get a blog at some point, on which I could say some of the same things. However, I have to be looking for jobs right now. People will see this facebook page.

So, I can't sound too suspicious. I can't call myself an "evil socialist," or say "fuck the imperialist gringo pigs" even if I mean such phrases sarcastically, or as a pun refer to myself as "bath-ist" (in that I support the creation of bathhouses). Or can I?

I also can't let on that I spent a night in a guest house formerly used by the rebel Sub-commander Marcos in Mexico, or that I found inspiration in a group of people in San Salvador Atenco who have been accused by the media (probably wrongly) of wanting to set hostages on fire with gasoline. Or can I? These are just the examples of instances that I have already written.

Look, I could go on and on, or could I? Should I just put everything on a separate blog under a different name? Will people still find it that way? How many pseudonyms do I need to have?

Should I Keep it to myself? Create a new Facebook page, and have to spend double the amount of time on it?

A Modest Healthcare Proposal

Okay first off: health-care. Which is what Sarah Palin started out with. Either that or the youth in Asia (which I'll get to later, they made my sneakers).

I think both sides are missing some important points. When some towns have no playgrounds except at McDonald's and the government's idea of "cleaning up" pollution is to move it to some poor hopeless mostly-black farming county in Alabama who may not have health insurance (see: Kingston TN ash spill) I think we're pretty much screwed. Yeah, it'll be more expensive than in France, Britain, Japan or pretty much anywhere else, unless each of us changes just about everything.

Which no one really wants to do, especially not Barrack "I can't believe its not change" Obama.

So instead, I'm going to make a modest proposal that involves something that we U.S. Americans do best: Making people in other countries do our shit for us. According to Newsweek

New Zealand is best for quick primary care. I know almost nothing about New Zealand, except for having watched their excellent historical documentary The Lord of the Rings . I assume that they are not still ruled by a large flaming cat's eyeball (possibly a flammable female sex-organ), and are now possibly ruled by that dude from "A History of Violence." In any case, they should run our health insurance program.

If they don't want to, we should do the next thing we do best: INVADE! This should be easy as they still use medieval technology. I expect we can mow down a team of elves with bows and arrows with our missiles pretty easily.

Or, we could just give young people the same "socialized" medicine we already give old people. But that's really too expensive and would raise taxes. Unlike war, which is cheap.

That dude from "A History of Violence." Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.