9.22.2006
Autumn Equinox
Summer is folding into fall and after a few sketchy souths, the first good northwest hit Wednesday. Sure, the souths are satisfying as the waves at Tiburones walls into the cove, but the northwest at La Bol Segunda is another wave, with its' own luster. More open walls, fast sections, and sometimes a makable barrel. I had a fun time on Wednesday, and tasted all La Bol had to offer. I kept it short, and when I got out, I was entertained by a real time surf video staring Noe and some of the other rippers. Flytrap and I saw some insane surfing. The following day the swell had dropped, but it was fun. Today, it seemed the swell was bigger and still from the northwest - steep. By the afternoon, a close wind swell had joined the ground swell to produce doubleup slop. I surfed anyway, got a few, and bailed. I heard El Nino conditions are forming in the Pacific, so maybe we will have some good surf - but be ready for a lot of rain. Rick just got back from El Salvador and from the look of some pictures he left - he scored. I included one of the pics above, and, as time allows, will post an album. Must be nice. Couple things have caught my eye as I've wandered the beltway. In Alaska, the bears and wolves have been living too well. In feeding themselves, they haven't thought to share with hunters who come to the state to spend money and land that trophy moose or caribou. So, the state decided to promote killing wolves and black bears to cut the number of predators and make trophy hunting easier. Capitalism at work. As if you needed help with this one, a scientist analyzed the statistics surrounding suicide terrorism and found that it's not really about religion or hating our freedoms. His primary finding: suicide terrorism is more about foreign occupation than Islamic fundamentalism (author - Robert Pape). Yes, this means the more we occupy, and the more we help others to occupy (Palestine), the more pissed off the folks whose land is occupied get - makes sense. QED: it follows that our war on terror is making us less safe. Finally, our Congress continues to stroke the Stupident. They debate levels of torture, its definition, and its legal standing. Not much said about the fact that information obtained using torture is just about useless. They want to use such obtained information as evidence against the tortured. And the Stupident will be left to define what torture is by having the power to interpret the Convention. They've got to be sniffing glue. Single debate point. Do you want some despot interpreting the Convention when it comes to US soldiers? - your son? Of course, none of the elite that are making this war happen and profiting from it have children in harms way, but what about the normal distribution? The US, and our reputation, continues to reach new lows. Every time I think we've reached the bottom of the barrel, the CORPGOV bails out some more sludge and reaches a deeper level of slime. Don't wait for help from the Dumbocrats, they're not putting up too much of a fight. SPB wake up, they're giving you nothing but shit.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. Archibald MacLeish, poet and librarian (1892-1982)