He who leads must follow

I am 75 and when I was a young man I and my friends smoked a lot of dope, cooked peyote, took mescaline and LSD, and on occasion, did some coke, speed and nitrous oxide. We went to festivals and demonstrations with 2,3,4 hundred thousand people (No, I didn’t go to Woodstock. I was in northern Jersey, only 35 miles away but heard there was a lot of walking, so I rolled a fatty, put Hendrix on the box and zaahed out). At those events we all shared what we had of food, water dope and, of course, love. We were there with one common goal: to love one another.

We formed a big circle, holding hands and chanting Om at midnight on New Year’s Eve and the sound was marvelous and spoke to world peace. You see, our goal was to love one another and in doing so somehow destroy reality as it had been presented to us: war and greed lapping each other.

And we failed. I have to beg your forgiveness for not leaving the world a better place than we found it. My biggest sin as a child was stomping honey bees when we went under the sprinkler. Did you know that last year the United States added 200 more billionaires?

Jerry Garcia and the Dead sang a song called “Ripple,” in it is a verse that says “he who leads must follow.” I don’t think anyone is listening.

Matt Cardillo

Sharon

Carbon is good for you

When Joseph Priestley in did his bell jar experiments in the 1770s, he found that a mouse and plant would survive, when placed together in the same bell jar. Both would die when placed in separate jars.

So as you can see CO2 is not a pollutant. It is fixed in the soil, ask a forester. Carbon as a pollutant is a lie. We would all be dead without it. Yet the small brained main stream media continues to push the poison argument. Global warming due to carbon, really? When are volcanic eruptions going to be “modeled” and put into the equation?

Jim Argentati

Lyme