Message 941

Yesterday I watched three NFL games. The Raiders beat Kansas City again, but it did not do any good. The 49ers beat Arizona again, but that did no good either. Finally Seattle beat St. Louis. The 49ers beat Seattle a couple of weeks ago, so why could they not beat St. Louis last week when it would have done them some good? That’s sports for you. In the evening I watched My Boy Jack on Masterpiece Theater on PBS. It was based on the true story of how Rudyard Kipling bullied his son and the government in World War 1 to get him to serve in the military in spite of the fact that his eyes were so bad he could not pass the eye test. Of course he got killed and everybody felt sad, and Kipling finally realized he had killed his own son to serve his own manly fantasies.

I also finished reading The girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest on my Kindle. I then downloaded a nonfiction book called The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and I have now read about 10 percent of it. This book was recommended to me by Chris Coleman, my friend in Australia.