a gurg is the leader of the giants

so i think i have my conspiracy theory hippie coworker thinking i am, in fact, a republican--not that there is anything wrong with that.

the other night we got to talking about "the chip." you know the one. the one they put in your hand and it's your driver's license, bank account, medical records, blockbuster rentals, basically your entire identity.

i told him i was all for it.

that riled him up. he went off about how the agents in charge would use it as a control method to take away our freedoms. he said i have no value of freedom and that i'm power hungry. it was an interesting conversation. the whole time that he was ranting about whatever doomsday would emerge from everyone getting the chip, only one image kept popping into my head.

i sit my grandkids on my lap to hear another story about the dark times.
"my friend bobby said that you guys had something called 'money' in the old days."
"oh yes, before lord cheney and supreme chancellor rumsfield took charge and protected us from foriegn and domestic terrorists, we had to go into stores and hand people pieces of paper with pictures and words on it in order to get good and services. it was called currency"
"you actually handed them paper?" little christopher john III would ask.
"oh yes," i would respond with a hearty chuckle.
"you sure did some funny stuff when you were younger, grandpa."
"it wasn't all weird and bad. there were some good things about the old days." i would say, a bit misty-eyed about my younger years. but then i would catch a glimpse of the camera in the corner of my den. the one recording every action and word for the department of patriotism.
"but that was before the democrats were outlawed as a terrorist group supporting osama bin hussien, " i add just to keep my ass out of "reconditioning school"

my coworker did not like it that i was so gungho about the whole chip in my hand thing. i just kept spouting off about the convience of it all. not having to carry a wallet around. never fumbling for my price chopper advantage card again. i told him it would be nice. i said it would be easier to catch criminals, buy stuff, rent library books, etc. he complained that people would use that information to damage you. i said people could get that info now if they wanted to. he responded with "for someone that usually talks like a leftist, you have some weird ideas, chris."

yes, i do, man. yes, i do.