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for Virgo this week: Jeff Greenwald (www.ethicaltraveler.com) has traveled extensively all over the planet for the last quarter of a century. "Do the citizens of the world revile us Americans more each year?" I asked him. He said that while millions upon millions have come to despise the U.S. government, most don't actually hate us, the American people. That's because they know firsthand the corruption and tyranny of their own countries' politicians, and so they don't hold our awful government against us. Let this distinction serve as a guide for you, Virgo. The time is right for you to fight inept institutions and rotten traditions and bad ideas, but without hating anyone.

(When is the time not right to fight against bullshit while trying not to hate anyone, I wonder? Maybe next week I get to wallow in ineptitude and hate everybody's guts.)

red hot chili peppers - higher ground (stevie wonder cover)

As today is Oct. 1 and thus the beginning of the official housing switcharoo, where packing and booking movers etc. should start getting done, I'm of course doing pretty much zip. I found the "Moving Doctors" business card from the last time, and I can't wait really to get ol' Mike on the phone to explain that the stuff he moved from floor to floor in one house last year, and then moved across town half a year later, is now going back to the original house and the original floor it was on to start with. Maybe I'll ask him for a bulk-nutty discount.

On a brighter yet completely pointless note, as I was scrounging around downloading the above tune, I learned that Anthony Kiedis is about to turn 44 years old (and a Scorpio no less, be still my heart).



there's playful in his face, I like