With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
August 07, 2003 - 12:49 p.m.
I was going to write a nice update this morning but I spent all my time trying to get my McAfee account in order. They have the world’s worst customer service. I tried handling it by email but they made it very difficult. There is no email address given but if you keep clicking on the contact options you finally get to a form to fill out. They ignored it the first three times I wrote and today it just got bounced. I broke down and made the long distance call to them. The woman I spoke to was incompetent and didn’t know how to deal with people. I couldn’t make her understand my problem and when I did she didn’t solve it correctly. She was supposed to change my password, she said she did, but she didn’t. I am so frustrated.
On a brighter note last night I saw a free show at Lincoln Center, it was called Take Me Out to the Ballgame and featured Christine Lavin, Chuck Brodsky, Dave Frishberg, and the Persuasions. I thought the show started at seven but it was actually 8. That did lead to my getting a good seat and getting to talk to Christine before the show.
Bad Carey and Barbara met me there but they didn’t stay long, only for Christine’s two songs and one by Chuck. I didn’t stay for the Persuasions. I am not a big fan of a cappella that doesn’t suck (i.e. not DVN )
I always love Christine but I had never seen Chuck before though I’ve heard him on the radio. I loved his stuff. His first song was about Fred Merkle. That name might not mean anything to you but to a baseball buff like myself it speaks volumes. Merkle also knows as Bonehead Merkle made the most famous blunder in baseball history. Yes this happened in a game in 1908 but it is still remembered. That’s what I love about baseball, someone could write a song about a play in a game played 95 years ago and expect people to remember it. Chuck also had a song about Moe Berg. A catcher whose other job was being a spy in the OSS. During WWII he had a mission to find out how far the Germans were on their atom bomb and if they were making headway to assassinate Werner Heisenberg, the head of the project. A colorful character to say the least.
I only knew one song by Dave Frishberg but I love it. The entire song is the names of old-time players with the refrain being the most euphonic player ever, Van Lingo Mungo. You can’t make this stuff up.
Tonight it’s GrooveLily and Eric Schwartz with Melissa. Sounds like fun.
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