A pox on your intertubes!

Spent a long time today putting together a long post with pictures and comments plus a slide show, but for some reason I borked all of the pictures while uploading them. So instead here is a link to a buddy of mine from Australia`s blog. He and his better half had an epic four and a half month journey around Europe.

The post card C and I sent her dad from the Vatican finally arrived here today. God does move in mysterious ways, and when it comes to mail, apparently he takes his sweet time.

Still haven’t received word about my sister fleeing from the San Diego area due to the fires, and canceled classes. But while I have been searching for information on the fire, I have come to one conclusion- The Gen Xers had it right. Don’t believe in any thing, it only causes trouble.

On the one hand you have religious nutters claiming that the fires are the wrath of God in response to some recent legislation. Right. The fundamentalist Christian God (or the Islamic one, neither one them seem to be the sunshine and puppy dogs sort of Deity) comes down from on high to start a fire in a very wealthy, conservative neighborhood while leaving the very flamboyant West Hollywood untouched. Apparently God has terrible aim. (perhaps he has bad eyesight, that would explain the postcard from the Vatican.)

On the other hand you have the environmentalist nutters claiming that the fire is a result of global warming. Obviously the Santa Ana winds only started with global warming, California has never had a drought, and there has never been a major fire before global warming. (The fire of London was probably another cover-up initiated by George W. Bush.)

Here is my theory- the San Diego fire was due to the fact I had a record low number of page views on that day. Had more people been reading my blog, there would be 2,000 families that would not be homeless right now.

Hey, it makes as much sense as the previous two theories.

Then of course are the real jerks who just say “serves em right for living there, they should have moved a long time ago.” My question is where? Tornado alley? The Hurricane Coast? The blizzard covered north east? How about up by earthquake country near San Fran? The Mississippi flood plain? The volcanoes of the north west? Is there anyplace in the U.S. that is not prone to at least one kind of natural disaster?

How about people learn that crappy stuff happens from time to time, and you can either A: Have a heart and do something about it or B: be like me and write sarcastic comments about it on your blog.