Answers to the Homework

O.K.  So Michael Jordan should be able to own an NBA team because he said he hated all white people when he was young.  That was the salient apology of the terrified writer of the article I assigned for homework yesterday.  Have I read it correctly?  Michael Jordan had good cause to be a racist.  I am not arguing that.  All white people in North Carolina suck.  But as I said the day it was revealed that old what's his name didn't want his girlfriend tweeting pics of herself with Magic Johnson and TNT's basketball commentator's called for his removal, let's hear a recording of Barkley calling white people crackers.  Sterling is a racist, it is clear, but to some degree, so are you.  Should you have to sell your house and move to another neighborhood?  Well. . . yea.  I think anyone who is an asshole secretly or publicly should be punished.  Why are people so tribal?  Look to the history of Europe.  Look at what is happening in Sudan.  Tribalism and hatred of "the other" allowed some populations to succeed.  It is bloody in tooth and claw, but the sweethearts have never won.  Ask hippies.  I was one.  We got the shit kicked out of us.  We had a motto.  "Run away, run away."  It allowed us to rule the world with peace, love, and understanding.  Only hippies should be allowed to own an NBA team, I think.  There are certain things you should have read and experienced.  There should be a test on it.  Hell, NBA games shouldn't even have scores.  Players should just play.  Why do we have this constant obsession with winning and losing?  What does that teach our kids?  Just run and jump and shoot.  It is fun.  No fighting.  Every ten minutes or so, one or two players should have to change teams.  Hell, there shouldn't even be teams.  What am I thinking.  That is almost tribal.    Players should all have the same uniforms on.  What is it with all this competition?  Make me NBA commissioner.  We will have a gentler world.  Leave all that banana throwing to those dirty Europeans. Sooner or later, they will come around.

All you need is love. . . all you need is love. . . . 

Oh. . . now I'm too tired to talk about the charisma article.  CNN is seemingly obsessed with it, though. But the article doesn't talk about charisma.  The author and editors apparently don't have a clue what it is.  Be interesting.  Don't fidget.  I love that one.  And walk into a room as if everyone loves you.  There you go.  What could be clearer.  Oh, except sometimes the opposite works.  You might want to seem vulnerable sometimes.  You know?

I just got a call from Larry's Gas.  The technician is on his way.  I am finally going to have the gas dryer hooked up--I hope.  I am sure something will go wrong.  He won't be able to do something that needs to be done.  But wish me luck anyway.  Perhaps this weekend will be filled with doing laundry.  God--my life sucks.