Change It's Gonna Do You Good

Okay, you keep hearing about how bad things are going right now; the economy is like a Rob Schneider movie – terrible to behold, gas prices have jumped to an amount that seemed like a ridiculous impossibility not that long ago, and as a result the cost of every good and foodstuff that’s delivered by truck is jumping in cost too. We’re still in a war that seems impossible to get out of, the super wealthy still seem hell bent on screwing anyone within dickshot for a couple more bucks, and hatred and ignorance still seem to run rampant throughout this country.

And this little laundry list doesn’t help anyone feel better. I start to feel glad that I already know how to drink heavily.

But - and here’s the big, bright, shiny but – there’s some good out there folks, for real. Obama got the nomination. I sat watching Hillary’s succession speech awhile back and started crying. I was here to witness this remarkable force of change; my son, who was busy trying to eat the D string on my guitar at the time, would grow up in a world where it would seem ridiculous that a woman or an African American wouldn’t be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. I cried hard and happy.

And today folks, gay marriage is happening in California. Not that there isn’t a battle ahead I’m sure, but it gives you some hope doesn’t it? Don’t you feel like we might turn some things around, start celebrating love and the power of good?

And here’s where I make a sharp turn, poop on this big plate of happy.

George Takei, “Star Trek’s” own Mr. Sulu, got hitched today and his quotable response to this joyous day for him was.

"May equality live long and prosper."

And I guess this isn’t so much a happy poop plate as it is a personal note to Sulu: Dude, not everything you say needs to reference “Star Trek” in some way. Seriously. We know you were on the show, we know this because aside from a time or two doing a voice on “The Simpsons”, you haven’t done anything else. And anyway, that’s Spock’s line. Dude.