Welcome to my sandbox.  Pick a Fist.COM is my place to dump all the craziness that gets force-fed into my head on a daily basis.  My reactions to daily events fluctuate between sardonic entertainment and disgusted disbelief.  So many things today are taken at face value.  If you take a moment to consider what lies beneath that latest city council initiative, or evaluate the long-term ramifications of a seemingly innocent proposal, you'll find that there are no free lunches. 

I believe that there are actually very few altruists in the world today.  I also believe that most of us would like to live our lives in harmony with our surroundings and with as little external interference as possible.  From where I'm sitting, the problem with that notion is that external interferences are looming larger on every horizon.  Beyond the confines of science experiments, very few actions occur in a vacuum and a society as a whole is constantly affected by the actions of a very small segment of that society.  Personal liberties and rights are under attack.  As a very prominent politician recently said, "The Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper."  The saddest part of all of this is that the silent majority choose to go about their lives in blissful ignorance of, or adopt attitudes of well-rehearsed oblivion in response to the stark fact of rapidly diminishing yet entirely reasonable expectations of nonmolestation and non-interference.  We have become Meat Puppets in pursuit of shiny happiness who fail to realize that every unchallenged erosion of personal liberty carries with it an implied consent by the masses to further erosions of their remaining liberties.

So this is my twist on the evolution of that delightful saying that so many of us heard from our parents, friends or loved ones at one time or another in anticipation of something pleasant. To friends or coworkers complaining about increasing taxes, more restrictive ordinances, or that they simply have a vague and uneasy feeling of recently having had something large and painful crammed up their asses, my response is, "Pick a fist."  The treats have long since been gone, the gloves have come off and that ain't no banana.