I respectfully disagree, God gives us free will because he wants us to love him with “reciprocal love.” So although He may have great plans for many people, it may be “said people” who choose not to give a hoot. Just something to think about. Maybe it’s not God’s fault that we have so many problems in society, maybe it’s the people who decide to sit back and do nothing. God can do wonderous things with people who live only 70 years, or less. Maybe if our world stopped condeming God as “old-fashioned”, “useless”, or even “dead,” and started listening to him, our world would be a better place.

California is like a bowl of cereal, man. Once you get rid of the fruits and the nuts, all you’ve got are flakes.

This has been common wisdom since, like, before the war.

I think Ben Franklin was the original sayer of it.

The kids are all right.

I adore your blend of hippy and yuppy values, I adore your fashion sense, I adore your total lack of prejudice, and I adore your sense of humor. I adore how you don’t take sex too seriously, not to mention drugs or rock & roll. I just adore you.

That’s not to say there aren’t some serious pricks amongst you, especially “superstar” chicks who feel entitled to act like Angelina Jolie in an office environment — but even they tend to be really great once you get them off their sense of entitlement syndrome.

And btw, we are handing off the entire planet to you people in a few decades. That’s the amazing thing to me, that one person at a time, the whole planet is bequeathed to succeeding generations and there is nothing we can do about it.

It makes you think there must be no god, because if there was, God would select a few real gems to live forever and help out into perpetuity.

So to sum up, I heart you, and the future is yours.