we met another playground bully yesterday. i feel the pain and death we cause around the world, but what really impacts me most is playground bullies, because it goes back to my earliest experiences, and they never cease, playground bullies. we were playing ball in a corner of the park when a fat surly mama came up and staked her claim to play baseball with her kid. then she said, my kids afraid, can you take your dogs somewhere else? it might have been a reasonable request if she hadn't taken over the spot we were already playing, and if she was nice and not surly. but i can't abide bullies so i kept playing and said we were here first, and have just as much right to play here as you. she said, Your Dogs Have No Rights. then i really hated her.Your Freedom Is Outrageous, she said. My Kid Is Afraid, she said. meanwhile the kid's running laughing with Comet. It's Illegal, she said. last refuge of scoundrels. So she's bringing all her fat guns, the law, her bulk, her surly entitlement, the invented fear of her poor kid, she's teaching the poor kid to lie lie and bully and cite the law all in one gasping breath, now the kid knows how to lie and manipulate and control others and is prepared for a career in law business or politics, or simply a life of bullying. good going mom, you've created another pure product of america, the classic american bully. i was really out of control and cursed her soundly, and fear repercussions, but she i think was satisfied and often bullies want to fight and be confronted, and sometimes as in the case of Hope, they begin to erode their own absurd rage for control and abusiveness, anyway, i dont feel too bad about cursing a lying bully.and ifeel for the children of lying bullies everywhere. later i thought there is distinctly absurd quality to these hurtful encounters, which may save the day.

i don't know what i believe.

do you believe in aliens? do you believe in magic? do you believe in mass thought control? but you do believe he is risen, don't you?

even if they fuck with me and cite legal precedent i know i'm doing good, and they are evil.

"your dogs don't have rights", she said.