You can get anything on the web....

It's amazing how times are changing. Before you had to go to your local library to access information, but now in the new technological age you can find anything on the internet. You never have to leave your house.

On the internet you can find a job, hook up in a relationship, have sex, meet friends, play games, shop. I mean, you never have to leave your home. I think that you may even be able to get your exercise in with virtual machines. Your fingers will never become fat.

You can even get married on the internet in a virtual chapel. Now, there might be something to say for an internet relationship. I've never had one. I've seen showmance and homance on television, but personally, I think that an internet relationship would be more of a nomance. I like the touchy feely, kissy face stuff that I can actually share with another person really in my bed. However, there might be something to say for a virtual pregnancy and child. I think a virtual child might be easier to raise.

Today I even found a site that gives relationship and marriage advice via email. The guys guarantees that he can help you "tap into your relationships greatest potential." This is great! I mean with daily tips from some unknown source you can learn to relate to the person that is supposed to be the closest to you. (Unless that person is thousands of miles away and your entire relationship is based on email correspondance, web cams, and cyper sex of course. Then you have an entirely new set of criteria.)

Personally, I think that if we spent a little less time on the computer and gave a bit of time to our relationship in the bedroom, at the dinner table, etc. etc. that it might may a world of difference. It may be the technology age, but until the human brain and heart are replaced with microchips and RAM a little real human contact is a rather nice thing. I speak from experience here.

However, if I'm wrong. I hear that you can now file for divorce over the internet for the low cost of only $69.

Are we truly a democracy?

Can we truly claim that we are a democracy when our voting is limited to a bipartisan standard of voting? In reality there are over two dozen political party systems, many of which no one has ever heard of. It is also true that the occasional Independent candidate manages to squeeze his way into a political role, but mostly it is the democrats and republicans that dominate our political system. It becomes quite evident during election years when we watch states go either blue or red.

The truth is that these bi-party systems have funding that the little guys don't have. Without the funds no one in the states will even realize that you are alive. So, our voting criteria seems to have become focused on who has the most money and who can sling the most mud. And we are supposed to be a nation of intelligent people?

I was quite disturbed one day when a woman approached me to sign for her candidate to run for office. I think that everyone should have that opportunity if they have the initiative to run. I didn't concern myself with what party affliation that he had. I would like to approach the entire voting principal by looking at what the man or woman actually intends to do when voted into office. She informed me that he was a democrat and that she would never vote for a republican candidate. "All republicans are evil and should be shot and killed." Yes, those words actually came out of her mouth. I was shocked. So much for individuality.

While I don't really care which party the candidate is affiliated with, one thing that will quickly turn me off from voting for someone is when they spend their entire thirty second commercial indicating that the most important platform they have is to rip on the other guy running, the president of the US, or anyone else that may have crossed their path. We would assume that you would think that you could do better than the politicians that are currently in office, or why would you run? I mean, come on. You don't put your name in the hat and spend oodles of money because you think the other guy is better but just want your name in the paper. Give us some meat and potatoes man! This is the US of A. We want to hear what you are standing for, what you plan to change, and how you plan to accomplish these goals.

So, my idea is that perhaps the two party system doesn't allow true democracy. We aren't honestly given choices for who we truly want to represent us. Somehow over the last 150 years we have grown in technology, educational standards, and other areas of life except for the regression of allowing others to dictate to us how to vote. Let's forget the elephant and the jackass for a bit and just look at what this country truly needs in the way of leadership. Show spunk and intelligence and demand information on everyone that is running, even the guy that is running in the Personal Choice Party. Why? Because that is what a true democracy should be. Not chattel that votes according to the better televsion commercial or party rhetoric, but well informed, well educated adults that can think for themselves.

Yes, vote. But vote smart.