I think everyone deserves equal and free access to food, education and health care.  University students are not all having their way paid for by their parents, and homeless people aren’t all poor.

I think our perceptions of people and their situations are skewed by our own personal experiences and that any step towards supplying aid to someone, regardless of their social status is a step in the right direction.  It’s a juxtaposition of social normality, like Hugo Chavez supplying affordable oil to New York city from his “Third World Country.”

Yes, university students need food, everyone does.  It’s called equal distribution of social wealth.  Am I to feel bad for visiting a food bank because someone less fortunate than me does not?  Wouldn’t that be some twisted form of self fladulation?  Punishing myself for having more than others by refusing what is offered to me?

Life is a conundrum then isn’t it.  If I care about the poor and the starving, how poor should I live and how much should I starve myself to make what I feel more REAL to me.  Should I devote my life to the lives of others?  Should I be happy with my lot and ignore them completely…out of sight out of mind right?  Is there a happy medium…can I please everyone?

My last question for you is should someone feel bad, ie. a university student, for visiting a food bank when they’re shelling out 10 grand a year on tuition and another 2000 on books working two jobs and having to decide if they should quit school and become another unemployment statistic or press on to better themselves?  That sounds exaggerated but it comes to that for some people…why should university be for the rich and for those who can get loans?  I myself can’t get a student loan and have to work two jobs through the semester and all summer to pay for school.  If it wasn’t for free food and help from friends and family I wouldn’t be here…I don’t have rich parents…I don’t come from high society stock…and I’m certainly not above taking something for free, even though someone who needs it more didn’t show up to get it first.

I couldn’t help but notice that some jackass is spamming my blog 10 times a day and that my server isn’t catching it.  So…instead of moderating the comments mad-underground…I’m making said jehbroni work for it (and all of you incidentally) by adding a spam word entry form to my blog.

Sweet part is…you can request a word.  Be it BOOYAH! or JEHBRONI.  Let me know…keep it under 7–8 letters and I’ll hook you up with a piece of spam word history.

Oh…and Dale Willis is in town on the 19th…come and see his show…he’s incredible.

BOOYAH!!!!