Skunk Dreams

Last night I dreamt that I met NBA star Steve Nash. This is weird and random. I know. I was reading about him in a book called "IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas" by Chuck Klosterman. That new film, 'Inception', came out today. I guess the movie is all about dreams. Maybe. I haven't seen it. "Skunk Dreams" is about dreams in a way. Louise Erdrich is a very descriptive writer. I was amazed on how well she could describe things. I'm not going to give an example, because the whole essay is very descriptive. She tells about a few dreams that she had. "I may be a woman who has dreamed herself a skunk, or a skunk still dreaming that she is a woman." Kinda weird to think about. When she is in Valley City, North Dakota, she dreams of the woods. She didn't think about the dream until she moved to New Hampshire. She talks about how she thought that the woods there seemed "bogus" at first. She later beings to find the beauty in the woods. She finds solace in the trees. She even wrote it: "I found solace in trees." I also find comfort in the woods. Ticks suck though. I slept under the trees the other day actually. I know this is probably weird for some people, but I think it's great. Waking up to the sound of birds singing is great. ANYWAYS, the author said, "My dream, was about obstacles still in place. The obstacles that we overcome define us." Everyone has different dreams. I'm not sure if there are obstacles in my dreams. I once dreamt that I was riding a huge white horse through a rain forest. I think we should just leave it at that. There is no need to think deeply about this dream. Maybe I'll ride a huge white horse someday. Maybe fight in the Civil War. Maybe I'll meet Gram Parsons. These things could never happen in my life because A)Horses cannot be the size of whales. B) The Civil War was in the past. and C) Gram Parsons is still feeling blue in his grave. Dreams are dreams. I don't think anyone will fully understand them. The author makes it seem like dreams show what the future will be like. Similar things might happen, but it's a little overwhelming to think that dreams show the future in a way. In the essay the author talks about skunks too. She says skunks come and go. Dreams come and go too. It's easy to dream, just like it's easy to get near a skunk. People have no reason to kill skunks, but if they are killed, people will forget about them. This is kinda like dreams. Dreams are forgotten all the time. She says that she would be a skunk if she could be an animal. I'd be a cat. This essay was very interesting to read. I'm not sure if I understand it completely. Maybe this essay is supposed to be like a dream: Difficult to comprehend.

Wake Up

"The Talk of the Town" is a powerful essay. Adam Gopnik proves a lot of good points about gun control. "Reducing the number of guns available to crazy people will neither relieve them of their insanity nor stop them from killing." Gopnik basically wrote my thoughts in her essay. The Virginia Tech shooting was horrible, and I hope it doesn't happen again. Let's be realistic though. These "crazy people" will find ways to get a hold of guns. Gun control is an obvious issue in the United States. It's too bad the U.S can't fix the problem. The country could stop selling weapons in well-known places for starters. They can start at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart also sells Machetes for a pretty low price. I wonder how many working families want/need machetes. ANYWAYS, guns are useless for a lot of families. Guns are tools used for killing things, and for some reason people love using these tools. When I think about it, most of the people who use guns are tools.......ANYWAYS, The U.S should look at other countries that don't really have the whole gun problem. "Who doubts that America is strong? But that's not all America has to be." The country should build off of other countries' policies. We, as a country, don't have to be so selfish.

9/11. I could go on for a while with this. I know that a lot of people might say this, but I'll say it anyways.....Bush wasn't that smart. I don't even know where to start. I'll start with his nuclear weapon suspicion in Iraq. According to Bush, God told him that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. I guess God couldn't tell him exactly where they were. I guess God couldn't tell him the truth.......ANYWAYS, there is a lot of suspicion that Bush had knowledge of an attack on the towers before September 11th. I can believe this, but I can't believe that Bush actually planned the attack. That administration showed that they can't do a lot of things right. How could they stage this attack? "Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid." Susan Sontag wrote this, and it's right. Bush couldn't even do that right though. When the country had the chance to capture the Al-Qaeda leader, Bush decided to bomb Iraq. A right-winged nut might say in response that Clinton didn't get Osama Bin Laden either, so stop blaming bush. Clinton tried though. Bush didn't. He did get Saddam Hussein though. One cruel dictator down, many many many more to go. It's weird how everything worked out for Bush. He got a lot of people thinking that Iraq was the place to be. Why are we there though? Blood for Oil? Spreading democracy? Sometimes I think that Bush was thankful for the 9/11 attack. It was like a free ticket into the Middle East for him. It was probably helpful for him to have Donald Rumsfeld by his side as Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein in the '80s to make a deal. Rumsfeld made it possible for the United States to give WMDs to Saddam. Everything is so messed up with that administration. Everything is so messed up with 9/11. Was 9/11 an act of terror or was 9/11 a political trick?

I recommend the documentary called 'Zeitgeist,' if anyone is interested in the 9/11 attacks. I'll warn you though. It's pretty heavy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_E4N5YIycI&feature=PlayList&p=03883D92DD00DEBF&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1