To My Friends:

Star Gazing.

I know that participation can be distasteful and lame and engenders apathy among those who consider themselves "cool." It's an affront to the facade of detachment - a necessary invention for those with a robust spirit and a creative mind trying to live in a land of corporate values that is hostile to the individual.

But an Iron Curtain is about descend and this time we will be on the wrong side of it. If Bush wins, in the next generation of Rocky movies it'll be the American boxer who loses because his society is fundamentally flawed, and incapable of producing the heart of a champion.