Rating the wellness of the species

In our annual review of the appearance and disappearance of subcultures, we assess the "health" of them in relation to their effect on the general culture at local/village, city, state, national and international levels.

We take into account the scientific definition of an individual's health, which is in flux at this time.

We also consider recent releases of studies about the life of a person and how youthful attitude leads to habits in adulthood.

Subcultures are groups of people, after all.

Meanwhile, a secret group of farmers is preparing to load front end loaders and other equipment into semi-tractor trailer rigs to block off the entrances to Manhattan island to protest the lack of access to loans they blame on the banking/financing industry that Wall Street represents.  Bridges, tunnels, subway/tube entrances, heliports and river traffic access will be cut off for as many number of days as the farmers feel will give Manhattans the same sense of pain that the average farmer has long suffered at the hands of predatory financiers.

Back in the lab, we have successfully demonstrated a large-scale accelerated light beam projector that will need to be reproduced in sufficient quantities to turn Earth into a giant disco ball by the early part of 2050.  That way, we can join the supercivilisation that communicates across universes in light relay races in this part of the universe and in other universes by who can spread one's entity the farthest apart and still be recognised.

You see the similarity, of course.

Some people tell me it's time to clean up our act, that the melding of government and business is not the same as corruption in the act of one's public duties.  If so, then who's in charge of ensuring transparency and neutrally measuring due diligence?  Is having, because of job title, a special place to park one's vehicle or diplomatic immunity a sign of corruption or corruptible activities elsewhere in life?

If I stop listening to people teaching how us to write/narrate well, will my writing/storytelling skills decline?

Thanks to the folks at Wild Birds Unlimited, Chocolate Crocodile, Katherine at P.F. Chang's, Fuel City, Target, and the Apple store.

Say what you will about the wonders of technology (spellchecker is my friend), but I still like holding a large hardback dictionary and flipping pages to random entries.

Just like it doesn't bother me to subsidise AOL with my pittance of a monthly subscription of $11.99 - it's a way of being in charge of personally redistributing my wealth that makes me feel happy.