The Road Of Good Intentions -- John Gorka

The Road Of Good Intentions


I wish to point out that the "Religious Right" (which I thought used to include me, but doesn't now, even though I am a Christian - i.e.: Follower of Jesus) has been thoroughly, almost universally duped. I say this as I watch my brother (one of the finest Christian men I know) watch Bill Blowhard O'Reilly.

It's amazing what a few promises will do. Just because a guy says he's against killing babies doesn't make he or his cadre of "neocons" fit to guard the borders, run the economy, and stave off the inevitable (he's hastening it, but he don't know it -- obviously going to the wrong Bible classes) in the ME.

Viewing things purely from the practical side, I would like to point out that our preemptive strike has so far cost us approx. four times the money it would take to seal US north and south borders and pay N.Guard to patrol them for the next ten years. Or five years, if we want to spend the savings on a LOT more smart bombs (I recommend it - but smart bombs cost more than soldiers, evidently).

‘Course maybe in the end it’ll be worth it. Maybe they'll stick some factories in Iraq that will sell things to Wal-Mort at “always low prices.... Always." That'll be worth it.

Our problem, as Americans, is when we stopped acting as a "country" and started acting as an "empire". And we all know what eventually happens to empires, don't we....

Personally, I don't think we have much time. Gonna be a tough little go before the even tougher 7 years.


The Road Of Good Intentions -- by John Gorka

there's addition and subtraction
but division over all
hope once in fluid motion
is slowed behind a crawl

oh, the images are strong
and the words are pretty good
but there's more fiction out of washington
than out of hollywood

on the road of good intentions
all gets justified to hell
the price revealed in stories
too short, too sad, to tell

is this permanent improvement
through abbreviated lives
or another tragic venture
shocking when the bill arrives

by the rubble where the house was
there are markers in the dirt
children with no need of freedom
they can no longer be hurt

on the road of good intentions
all gets justified to hell
the price revealed in stories
too short, too sad, to tell

and the soldiers and their families
with life and limb they pay
while the ones who sent them marching
get to dance the night away

i always come back to the soldiers
with their courage and ideals
i've seen them smoking in the airports
there's no telling how it feels

on the road of good intentions
all gets justified to hell
the price revealed in stories
too short, too sad, to tell

New Band Name List....

New Band Names


Prompted by Andy Whitman's Blog "Razing the Bar", here are a few possibilities:


"Bump and The Skin Tags"

"The Preemptive Balls"

"Over the Little Hocking" (Obscure covers of already obscure "Over The Rhine" songs)

"70% Off"

"Red-Neck Pickup Truck Drivers On Meth"

"The NASCAR Sticker Bunch" (Logo: obviously a t-shirt with large #3 and the statement "Dale died for your party!")

"The Meth Lab" (Logo: pic from rear of 1975 Plymouth Fury with trunk open)

"Call Me Idiot" (Logo: hillbilly riding pig, complete with straw hat and sporting a pitchfork)

"The Additives"

“Walt Mort and The Greeters”

"The Wife-Beaters"

"Cult of Mediocrity"

"Cult Kool-Aid"

"The Phish Sticks" (condensed versions of jam-band songs)

"The Bris Doctors" (Hasidic speed metal versions of klezmer classics)

"Mile High Collagen Blow-Out" (any number of visuals here)

"The Old Lady's Workin' Agin" (actual quote from guy at bar)