thoughts

I really should have started this blog about two months earlier, because this point I'm pretty much fatigued by social cause blogs. They grate.

Reasons:

1. Located a few extremely incendiary blogs. Read a bit. Quite a bit. They had good points to make -- I wouldn't have kept reading otherwise. But they also irritated the shit out of me.

2. During some recent travels I was the selected target for some beggars, panhandlers, and other scam artists. Somehow the knowledge of these persons' likely economic status (dire) and social pressures (high) has not helped me alleviate the intense anger I feel toward these persons for violating my personal space and (it seemed fairly evident at the time) intending to take advantage of my person further. (Likely this has to do with being attacked earlier this summer by a more aggressive person-intent-on-redistributing-my-possessions.) The reconciliation of knowledge and emotion in my brain is an ugly mess and I am letting it calm for a while.