my friends tell me dock your train has gone off the rails over the cliff and into the gulf arch well often i would rather be at the gorge listening to some aging rock band among an audience of people over forty people with jobs happy people out for a good time where i live here in seattle one of the richest cities on earth i get to watch a heroin epidemic and hundreds of homeless people with cardboard signs twelve thousand to fourteen thousand homeless people to be precise all those individual people are caught in brutal traps traps we have created all of those individual people seriously doubt the value of our civilization i seriously doubt the value of our civilization on t v i see tens of thousands of people at football games happy people and the camera pans across the smiling children the happy families and the pretty college girls what good does a ballgame do for a person with no place to live a person who has dropped off the acceptable net with no compass with no mess to get back home in most people's minds spending millions of dollars on ballgames is more important than spending millions of dollars on homeless people or heroin addicts dear viewer before you change the channel take a look at any smooth asks now there is a firm basis for a human civilization but there are those among us the righteous the creators of political correctness who will say dr mo's you are an old deviant heterosexual white male and therefore you have no authorization no politically correct stamp of approval to be feeling up a pretty curvy young naked black girl only we the empowered lesbians are authorized to lust after young black girls or perhaps the righteous lesbians might concede a handsome young black man may under proper supervision also be allowed to lust for a young black girl even young white men are not really supposed to lust after young black girls it's frowned upon this is the bizarre society we live in we have invented rules and ideas and concepts and entertainments that have no basis in the reality of our place and time our ideas and entertainments are bizarre distractions our urgent problems go on solved ignored in a rush toward making money in a rush to build our own small little self definitions self definitions which exclude the urgent and legitimate needs of millions of other people we have pretensions of being open minded allowing the cross dressers to work at mcdonalds teaching our children to accept the pretentious rules teaching our children to accept gay lesbian transgender and alternative lifestyles teaching our children those rules in the public schools in bellevue our public schools declare all humans are created equal well equal that is if you have plenty of money and do what you are told and are able to hold down a good job year after year all humans are equal only when they fit in with the rules of economics and the rules of political correctness an aging white male fringe artistic riff raff like myself is not equal to any young man or woman with a good job and all the homeless people and all  heroin addicts are not equal to the men and women who manage to keep their heads above water men and women with vegetarian lifestyles who go to the gym humans were created equal if there were indeed equal opportunity