A bomb is a bomb is a bomb

A facebook friend clued me in on a punk revival band: Franz Ferdinand  Good music. Nice to know I'm not doomed to punk-oldies-80s radio to hear the music that speaks to me.

I'm a rock fan. Classic rock. Those luscious ballads and hammer guitar from Queen, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd

But I LUV punk. Punk is my emo adolescence. Punk runs through my heart like a hot dagger and takes me someplace else.

The name struck me. Franz Ferdinand. The emperors's son and heir who pulled a JFK and started WW1. At least They let Jackie Kennedy live. Poor Sophie died with her husband, Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Maybe that's progress.

[please excuse my anachronisms]

That shot. A pistol in a crowd. A shadowy organization with ties to the Serbian government. The black hand.

We look at ancient royal dynasties and think how barbarous--killing off all your brothers so you are the only heir to the throne. Wanting it that bad.

I have lightly tweeted about assassinating Trump. I won't do that anymore. I was wrong even to put that thought out into the universe. Murder is bad. There are many wells of black humor to drink from...I don't need to choose death.

Ironically, Rasputin was attacked by an assassin on the same weekend Franz Ferdinand was shot. Rasputin lived. His mesmerizing holy Orthodox ways kept a tsar and tsarina in thrall and allowed anarchy and terrorists to take over Russia. That great bear drunk on terror let loose. Violence...horrible violence...decades of blood and violence.

Rasputin's survival contributed as much to the disasters of WW1 as Franz Ferdinand's death did. Well, that's a theory I pulled from a book about Nicholas and Alexandra

It's nice to put a finger on an event, a time, a place, and say: "there. that is where it all went wrong."

but we've been assassinating leaders and mongering wars and tossing bombs --or rocks--as far back as we can see.

They are doing it now in Syria. They will spread. History repeats and repeats and repeats.

Peace is the only answer. But we are not a peaceful people (We, the People). We stand our ground and cherish our arsenals. The only change is the arsenals get increasingly large and damaging. Innocents die. It sucks. The whole fucking thing sucks.

I'm sorry...I can't say anything coherent about war or terrorism or a war on terrorism (do you see the folly there?)

I can't even.

Peace out.