ET ADOLPHUS AUGUST 2012 REPORT

ET Adolphus with an update on my metamorphosis. A few years back I was startled to see me staring back from my vanity mirror. The hot weather was here, like now, and I was naked. Gravity and time had pulled everything that used to be firm and supple so that it was beginning to sag and drape. Well, sagging and draping continues – the bags under my eyes will eventually rest on my cheeks, the flabby skin beneath my chin continues to wave like a flag unfurled in a high wind, my perky pectorals have gone flat and the nipples have grown beards. Now somebody tell me how the hell I'm ever gonna get a titillating tongue when my nipples are growing weeds? I'm really afraid to look and see what my ass is doing. Think I'll go visit another galaxy. See y'all when I get back. ET A

NATURAL RESOURCES - WHO GETS NET BENEFIT

LIKE SOME OF YOU I THINK TOMORROW So you know where I'm talking from – I'm retired, living on a modest income, I now write and act full time; my acting supplement my income but all of that and more goes to my writing. And then there's the usual emergency that everyone gets. Maybe knowing a little about my position will explain what I say next. With the squabbling between the Republicans and Democrats – the Right saying LESS GOVERNMENT SPENDING and the Left saying MORE TAX FOR THE RICH – there is no foreseeable solution to the shortage of jobs, no foreseeable solution to the rising cost of education, no foreseeable solution to the increasing income disparity between groups, no foreseeable solution to the destructive concentration of wealth. If you're waiting for me to offer a foreseeable solution you can go back to milking your duck. If you're still here let me throw out something to think about. I say from the start that I'm a capitalist, I like creating ways to make money, I like the notion of private property, I like to live well and always seeking ways to live well'er. A great deal of America's wealth – all humans – comes from natural resources: land, water, oil, gas, wood, coal, chemicals, precious metal, pharmaceuticals, you can add more. We really need to look at the way benefit is derive from these natural resources. FIRST: our government usually sells or rents the right to exploit a resource. Our government usually participates in the cost of exploitation. SECOND: a private company either buys of rents or both that resource. THIRD: the net benefit from the exploitation of the natural resource is taken by the private company. If you look real close at this picture something ain't right. FIRST: our government uses TAX DOLLARS to help a PRIVATE COMPANY exploit a resource. SECOND: Americans, THROUGH TAXES, help a PRIVATE COMPANY exploit a resource. THIRD: a PRIVATE COMPAY walks away with a LION SHARE of THE NET BENEFIT. If this picture still looks okay to you – go back to milking your duck. An alternative to your duck is to start thinking of ways for AMERICANS TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN THE NET BENEFIT OF ALL NATURAL (PUBLIC) RESOURCES. Adolphus Ward Ebooks:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591

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DIVERSITY IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE

REACHING FOR DIVERSITY in the American Theatre After reading comments sent to me by Nancy of Towne Street Theatre: NO MORE BLACK PRODUCTIONS OF TENNESEE WILLIAMS UNTIL THERE ARE WHITE PRODUCTIONS OF AUGUST WILSON. Thanks to Harriet and you N, for sharing an old discussion with new but worn ideas. What is often missed or not clearly stated is that an actor with a broad range of cultural experiences can play a character in many cultures (stories) -- but a play (story) born out of a specific cultural identity cannot play many actors: not and maintain the integrity of the culture. To achieve diversity in the American Theatre all cultures must have a presence. Adolphus A Ward Print & Ebooks:www.adolphusward.net. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591 http://twittercomadolphusward.blogspot.com

ET ADOLPHUS on humans going where

ET ADOLPHUS on where humans go The past few months I've been cruising through the universe at a mere 52,000 mph in the best vehicle ever built for humans – the Earth is an engineering wonder: a work of both esthetic design and function. If the earth were a woman it would translate into having both beauty and boo** – for those of you old or artist enough to complete the thought. Having seen dead solar systems with dead planets the question of where we humans go from here occupies a part of my thoughts. That part doesn't presently dominate my thinking because the Earth is still a work of beauty with a pleasing boo**; but the question does visit me from time to time. It is common knowledge that given Earth's growing population, speeding through 7 billion, the planet's resources will eventually be depleted: some of us will have to go somewhere else or all of us will be in peril. Earth and its inhabitants desperately need scientist and engineers – humans and other living creatures must have food and fresh water to live; humans must learn to conserve natural resources; humans must explore other earth-like planets to inhabit; humans don't have a choice but to do these things and more. Scientist and engineers are not born they are made – and that making starts with the desire to be a scientist or engineer. If someone is telling you, your son, your daughter, your grandchild, your niece, your nephew, or your anyone that you can't be a scientist or engineer – you have my permission to tell them to go straight to hell! Adolphus A. Ward Print & Ebooks: www.adolphusward.net. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/9759 http://twittercomadolphusward.blogspot.com

ADOLPHUS ON POLITICS 2012

ADOLPHUS ON POLITICS 2012 I've long discovered that politics has little to do with good or bad, right or wrong, truth or untruth, ethical or unethical behavior: politics is about peddling a particular ideology and leaving no choice but to go along with it. Since I'm an independent thinker I don't tend to follow crowds. As a matter of fact crowds headed in a particular ideology scare the shit out of me. My instinctive reflex is to head in the opposite direction. Too many Yeas agreeing with any ideology tells me there is little, if any, independent thinking going on. That aside; I'm becoming more and more aggravated by the gobs of ideology hurled at me by politicians and their supporters. Whether Elephant-Doo-Doo or Donkey-Dung – shit stinks – It's damned insulting to be told it doesn't. Some prognosticators, in prayerful voice, have the audacity to tell me to close my eyes and open my mouth while they dump gobs of doo-doo and dung – all the time acknowledging the bad taste but assuring me that the shit will be candy to my tummy. Shit whether from elephants or donkeys is still shit. Adolphus A. Ward Books & Ebooks: www.adolphusward.net. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591

HUMANS NOT GALAXY

ET ADOLHUS saying
EARTH HUMANS AND OUR GALAXY
I said in my last exploration that I'd look at some similarities and differences between human and galaxy behavior. I'm not sure why I do it but I've always wondered why things are as they are – why disease, why war, why hatred, why poverty, why is there motion in our solar system, why is there motion and chaos in our galaxy, why do we humans do what we do, why do solar and galaxy systems behave as they do? WHY?!!!
I've never accepted the notion that everything is unfolding according to some master plan – all of it designed, controlled, and set into motions by some all-powerful and unknown being. This tells me that everything has a purpose – and that purpose will eventually be revealed. This seems to be saying that all things are following a carefully composed script – only able to follow the role it has been assigned: human beings must do what they do as solar and galaxy systems must do what they do. Here comes my question again – WHY?!!!
If humans simply adopt the behavior of planets in a solar system – that of following specific orbits around a sun, whatever that sun is in human terms – that behavior will inevitably lead to the annihilation of all human beings and life as we know it. When humans follow the chaotic, barbaric behavior of our galaxy – that of the more powerful consuming the less powerful – that behavior too will lead to the death of humans and all that is or could be.
My position is that we humans are not compelled to follow any script, any prophecy, any solar nor any galaxy system in determining what our behavior should be. Unlike solar and galaxy systems which are slave to a physical process, we humans are not chained to the physical part of our nature – we can think, we can change, we don't have to destroy, we can create, we can live, and we can also love.
Adolphus A. Ward
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