I think Julio is usually right except when it comes to guns and God. In those cases, he's usually wrong, at least by my standards, but then who can claim objectivity when it comes to those issues?

Where I was wrong was in forgetting to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Stephanie on the 15th and to Julio on the 29th! How could I forget?

Nice election results... GOP takes over two key governorships with economically conservative new leaders. While, and this is the best news, the crazed Sarah Palin contributes to a sound defeat in NY-23. The GOP had a seat for like 100 years and Sarah comes into town and blows it. May she remain the kiss of death on (her type of) GOP candidates to come!

The Maine gay marriage vote thing no surprise, because every time this comes to a majority vote, gays lose, obviously, since most people are very uncomfortable with gays even though they openly state otherwise. Just like with foreigners or blacks or you-name-it. This is not a question for a democracy or for a legislature, it's a question for the courts.

Here is a Julio Principle I am sure you will all agree with: "Gabriela and Mike, I tellya, I like!"

Now that's Julio Principle I totally agree with :)

Of your World Myths, Julio, I found the following two interesting:

2) That resources are finite and overpopulation is bad

3) That countries and governments are the logical and natural way to get organized

Care to expand on one or both? If not countries and governments, then what? Seems to me, "societies" have been the way of the world since the time when we humans were members of tribes. Isn't a country or a government a natural progression from there?

I could see the argument that maybe resources are not finite, but I don't know how overpopulation can possibly be good.

Sue (and 80'ers):

Sorry to barge in. Couldn't help reading your post. Talking about myths, social structure, and the progression from tribes and city states, to the modern National State and government, it so happens that a foremost thinker in that direction, Claude Levi-Strauss, just died a couple of days ago, at the tender age of 100 + years (born, 28 November, 1909).

If you want to understand the logical structure of Julio's mythological concepts (and thought), I highly recommend Tristes Tropiques (The Sad Tropics) and, especially, La Pensée sauvage (the savage mind). He fits in perfectly well in both.

All the best.

"Felipe 77"????

Mon Dieu, je ne sais plus comment on l'appellait quand il etait petit!!

But, dire-moi, as a consequence (translation to English: consequence) of this catastrophe (translation to English: catastrophe), do you predict I can now sell my jeans for more beaucoup francs (ok, euros) than hier? Perhaps to you, mon petit Levi's admirer! I have collected a few over the years, think about it you could hold my jeans with that priceless sociological imprimatur! If so, it is our eenzy weenzy leettle secret (secret); ne le repete pas!

Felipe Lopez, Class of 77, I believe. Felipe, were you at the AHS for your Senior Year or were you just absent from the yearbook?!

Sue: Just absent. Thanks to the UNAM programme, I managed to finish about 6 months earlier.
Salud y saludos

How depressing, the Yankess won.

The Yankees gave a LESSON to the Phillies on how the game is played! What an amazing institution that team is. If only UNIONS in this country behaved that way...

PLUS Mariano Rivera reminds me of Carmen.

And Mike, I am going to give you a reason to love the Yankees:

From Wikipedia on Mariano Rivera:

"Rivera is a devout Christian. He maintains that God has a reason for everything that happens. For example, Rivera found his failure in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series easier to deal with when he learned of the consequences it had on a teammate. Had the Yankees won Game 7 and the World Series, Enrique Wilson would have flown home to the Dominican Republic and been aboard the deadly American Airlines Flight 587. "I am glad we lost the World Series," Rivera told Wilson, "because it means that I still have a friend." Rivera's pitching glove is inscribed "Phil. 4:13", in reference to the Bible verse Philippians 4:13 ("I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me"). "

Sue: "Imagine there's no countries... it isn't hard to do..."

More later

Mariano Rivera is an institution. He comes in and its lights out. Glad to hear he's a devout Christian. But what happnes when there are devout Christians on opposing teams?

Edited by author 11-05-2009 11:52 AM
But as important, OK, MORE important...the guy is Panamanian!
(very clever Julio)

Speaking of which...

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

Oops, sorry, that wasn't Kassem, that was me! I was using his computer!