So soon we all forget we ever met...

Dearly Beloved,

Today is not unlike any other day for me... I woke up with a great sense of what needed to be done, with a heightened sense of awareness and with a steadily burning fire of enthusiasm... Yet, I find the days becoming more and more sobering lately.

Just yesterday, as I was doing research for the broadcasts that the boys and I will be doing this week, I came across the story of the teenage Iranian girl who was shot and killed at one of the protests going on in response to the recently-rigged election that kept that fucking Muppet, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in office.

She was shot by a sniper because she was, simply, an easy target - watching the protesting from afar with her father and was slugged square in the chest. The video, which is spreading rapidly on YouTube, is the most horrific thing that I have ever seen before... and not because i haven't exposed myself to the cruelty of the world either... It was the circumstances of the event.

I have researched mass genocides before, studied world conflicts and stained myself with gruesome footage of suicide bombers, organized crime and terrorist executions in the pursuit of knowledge, separating myself from the bubble-gum chewing, oblivious fuck-tards that live in the US and ignore anything that doesn't have to do with multi-flavored condoms and nightclubs...

But this video struck me in a way I never felt before.

As i watched, the girl that is being called "Neda", which is Farsi for "the call", lowered to the ground by spectators who were trying so hard to save her, you clearly read the expression of confused panic on her face...As she was only looking to witness history, not detonate IED's.

Within moments her eyes glazed and a dark stream of crimson blood rushed out of her mouth and nose as the bullet had destroyed her heart and lungs... her father helplessly trying to save her with his fellow countrymen...Slowly, the desperate pumping of Neda's chest was replaced with hugging, groping and weeping.

And then i realized, once again, where we live. I realized, once again, the truth about the world... Its simple... Miserable... and Solid all the way through. The impossibility of reason and the fact that no sense makes sense...

Journalists would leave you with a question... and inside the question would be a subtle call to action... "Have we forgotten that we are all brothers and sisters?" "Is there any end in sight?"

Here is your answer...

Yes we have forgotten that we are all the same, flawed, egotistical, malfunctioning pieces of organic machinery... We have forgotten anything that we may all have as common bonds and, no, there is absolutely no end in sight...

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs

We are cavemen with better weapons. Sure, like any other era, we have great-minds, peaceful leaders and fantastic ideals... but the minority?.... the "bad guys"?... Well, they have the balls to pull the trigger. The type of balls that the peaceful masses could never seem to find since the dawn of man.

Here are some more Sunday Morning Headlines for you:

Rockets hit US base in Afghanistan and two troops are dead.
North Korean Ship is suspected of carrying Missiles
Over 30 Militants are killed in Pakistan

Now here is another thing i find myself doing a lot these days...

"Okay, it's okay, it was only militants." Well thank god it was only militants and not real people, ya know?

I will say one thing in conclusion... The Colosseum may be crumbling in Rome, but that is only because it is not needed anymore. We've upgraded... This entire planet is the new Colosseum...

I want my refund.