Bullshit and messes, and all the rest

Perhaps the professor might consider, that, except when there is real danger involved or when it involves someone else, most people, when they're really honest, would tell ya no. And that they wish they had a million dollars.

Do laws even matter today?

Notice how the same folks who celebrate this law also wanted Lewis Libby freed and Ronald Reagan exempt from prosecution on Iran-Contra? Permanent tax cuts and as much oil as will fill their bellies?

Or how the same folks who want more regulation for BP, Goldman Sachs, and right-wing radio also want to smoke the doobies and let the illegals stay?

Why?

Because most people want the law applied when someone else's ass is in a snag. Or when it's something they already believe in.

Maybe, just maybe, the first reason - real danger - is the only time the law makes sense to get involved. Maybe the rest is what has made the world a goddamned mess.

Especially in societies that take their bullshit more seriously than the likes of us. North Korea comes to mind. Iran makes an appearance.

And maybe where we're headed is no Sodom and Gomorrah, at all, as it turns out. Maybe a world where people don't take the law so goddamn seriously is no serious tragedy, remarkably. Which is where we're headed, by the way, if you're keeping close count.

Maybe where we're headed is a world of less bullshit.

And maybe that's a good thing, ladies and gents.

Because just maybe the bullshit's what's made us such a mess all along.

From someone for whom bullshit is a mother tongue. And English is just something I speak in my free time.

And the law is something I only follow when it's the right thing to do. And, sometimes, not even then.

If the crosswalk is too far down and it's too far to walk. Sometimes, I'll make that walk. Because my consience says so.

Though, sometimes, my conscience can doesn't give a rat's ass.

When I'm speaking English, that is. And decide to give the bullshit a rest.