Lika a Rolling Stone...

Flew into Boise, Idaho today, drove to Twin Falls, crossed into the desert and now am held up in a Holiday Inn Express. As I drove to this dry land, the radio blared Bob Dylan. He mocked an Andy Warhol’s model/movie star, and I pushed further into the American wilderness.

Here this land easily went for Bush, but now it is confused. The war drags down the whole country, even here people are asking ‘what is happening/is America going to loose yet another war?’. And Bob Dylan wails on.

Sacrifice is well-known here whether while working the cattle or going into battle. They are the doomed that Hunter S. Thompson asked Richard Nixon. They are the men and women who build the country only to watch their hard work either be misused in an Iraqi oilfield or be bought up by a dot-com millionaire from California.

Let us hope we do not as Nixon advised, “fuck the doom,” but learn from and take on some of their better qualities.