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EVERYBODY'S RIGHT

EVERYBODY'S RIGHT

Everybody's telling me just
how to make the grade
how I should behave
just what I should say

("Obey, OK?")

Everybody's sure that something's
goin' wrong with me
'cause I don't agree
with what I should be

(that's what they say)

You can have yourself a fight
but everybody's right
You can argue half the night
but everybody's right

whose corrective?
who's objective?
Oh, perspective's
so selective

Everybody's sweet and light
until you find the hitch
trips the same ol' switch
Throws 'em in a ditch!

(then how they'll bitch)

Everybody's bark and bite
but everybody's right
Everybody's so uptight
but everybody's right

say it's my fault
say it's my loss
say it till you're
mental floss

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.08.25, 2:25 p.m. Hawaii time]

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More than wind in sails

How can we reduce our dependence on foreign oil?

The Pickens Plan video, 4 mins. 49 secs.

In part:

"This can all be accomplished in less than ten years, if you have the right leadership. And everybody in this country has to cooperate. We have to get on the same team, we have to march in the same direction."

Which is basically the recipe for revolution. As Marvin Harris states in "Return of the Witch" (an essay from his book, Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (1974), "You can't make a revolution if everybody does his own thing. To make a revolution, everybody has to do the same thing."

So we have to find a way to make this revolution patriotic. As all-American as BOWLING, perhaps! Seriously. Having the right leadership will help, but we all have to cooperate with the switch to cleaner, increasingly domestic fuel sources. In our minds, many of us are using outdated models from the 1970s when we hear the word "revolution." So, instead of thinking, "scary, big, different," please note that this energy revolution is pro-culture, not counter-culture. I mean, c'mon, folks, at the video link above, we're watching T. Boone Pickens at a chalkboard.

We're all the culture now. There is no us versus them. We can't afford the tab for that.

For further info, check out this easy-to-follow analysis.

[backup link]

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.07.27, 5:40 p.m. Hawaii time]

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the '70s, redux

in our pursuit
to get loose
we then forgot
to hang tight

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

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But why bother with the coins...

...when they could just build the pawn shops right into the gas stations?

It's so much more efficient.

To view this video, you must: CLICK HERE.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.04.16, 8:50 p.m. Hawaii time]

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Ever get the feeling you're being screwed?

We really can't stop ourselves.  <--CLICK FOR DETAILS

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.03.20, 7:40 a.m. Hawaii time]

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