I was listening to Prairie Home Companion. I liked Mr. Garrison Keillor's common sense, wise storytelling about Conservative Christian politics "forcing" a school to change Halloween (a supposed "pagan" concept) to just the "Fall Festival". For the sake of small town peace, the PTA (small town folk with common sense) were fine cutting the Conservative Christians some slack, not making a big deal out of a name. However, the Conservative Christians might even have a problem with the word "Festival" next year. People with common sense just want people to get along in the town. They want peace. Though the old timers with common sense did tell the radical Conservative Christians that they always felt it was far better to see good people play Evil on Halloween, then evil people play Good.

Evil playing Good vs. Good playing Evil. I really like that expression. I remember reading a distilled analysis of Carl Jung. I came away with the concept that... If you keep the Devil down, he'll strike back harder.

I'm stewing on this idea for this 2004 Halloween. I thought about Osama Bin Laden's recent video. Why did it suddenly come out? Who is it really going to benefit in terms of the election? I believe radicals like to have opponents who are radicals. I feel Osama Bin Laden would prefer to have Bush representing the Americans as his enemy. Why? Because radicals make more radicals. It's good for business. If you used the small town common sense "cutting slack" concept or there's room for eveybody concept, it takes the wind out of the sail. Suddenly, there's a lot of different voices out there. It's harder to recruit radicals. This is real democracy. This is what radical fundamentalists really don't want. They'd rather have this battle to keep recruiting. I believe Kerry representing the Americans would make it more difficult for the radicals to recruit and, hence, the timing of Osama Bin Laden's video. I hope I am wrong. Happy Halloween.