Lost Highway Times...Paths in Oblivion

Humility...

Is a good thing.

Especially since lack of it usually conceals deep seated insecurities which left covered are even worse than just revealing your real self, taking the consequences, and then learning and developing...

Learning that...

Damn, I fucked up what I, in my naivete, hoped would be something....what the hell am I anyways? A kid whose read a book or two, what did I expect?...at least an intro, with Alex Cockburn via an e-mail I initiated because I put myself forward as an arrogant and cocky son of a bitch that knew everything and had everything to say to the guy.

Wasn't exactly on the top, but if you can read a little deeper into things, as Mr. Cockburn surely can, you can recognize things like this...

Thought about it because just recieved "Serpent in the Garden"...a new Counterpunch book.

I think the unsaid "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine", system, which even exists, though, I'm hopeful, to a much lesser extent, on the Left, and was going to write a nice thought or two about Serpent in the Garden prefaced by my desire to just say that it's a good and interesting book and that I'm not doing this review (coming from an obscure blogger what the fuck could I have done in terms of pull?) just because I want to ingratiate myself with Counterpunch, think that that manifestation of human nature is sort of negative, etc...when I realized...Oh yeah, I tried to do the same thing myself, didn't I?

Sometimes people are so full of themselves that they don't recognize the bullshit and cons that they throw out. Hopefully, um, well, you get the picture.