Ya Gotta Support the Division

I hate to upstage my Chris D/Chuck D entry but "Ya Gotta Support the Division". If one is a Jets fan who is looking around after Sunday's game, and has some New England connections, you may as well think about Ye Pats. I would sure be on The Fan at this point if the Jets had won, after giving myself a day or two to readjust. The Division is everything. Greater New York is certainly right there with Philadelphia and Maryland in the "Resemble New England Category". With Andy Reid, Bill Belichick or Eric Mangini coaching, it's like Sean Payton: if the team loses it's more like a puzzle than a letdown.

So let's assume one likes NWE for some reason. If you're like me you may have difficulty getting around SDO's (officially it's SDG) sterile military culture. It's not an easy 'transition' or 'crossover', compared to SFO, SEA or a nonexistent Los Angeles team. And those electrical insignia; is one supposed to contemplate the sunny, direct, pleasing military disposition of San Diego as some sort of ultramild electroshock for depression, depression based on not living in a Mediterreanean climate? I, Mr Accountable, have a Mediterreanean heritage dating back to the 1600s in the south of France; I can certainly say that it's no joyride defending beach property from Vikings down through the millenia.

So I turn to rap with overt military themes and content to occupy the space in my musings that has to do with SDO. One could just turn to rock like Stone Temple Pilots, Chris Cornell, etc, but that's like rooting against the division. There is a lot of punk like MDC around, but that's not always good for naptime.

Master P and Mr Benjamin, among my rap collection of about 50 units, have overt military content delivered in a relatively non-oblique, rap-sponsible historographic manner. I found Mr Benjamin's "Mr Benjamin 2008" by searching through Sir Mix-a-Lot on eMusic; Sir's consistent descriptions of Fort Hood in Washington State are definitely interesting. Master P's "Only God Can Judge Me", in particular, can really make one think about how the draft developed in the south of America between the 1600s and the present. Just amazing, with a lot of non-work-safe material blended with the most unbelievably understanding presence of the military life for the man on the job. It's not very issue oriented, but after listening to the non-offensive version of Hail Mary on Only God Can Judge Me, one can open the doors of perception. It runs deep, to quote Econochrist.

Nuff said. Don't need to get 'fried' on David's Cookies and frappuccinos. There's a lot more to what SDO represents than what one can find there.

If one wants to get technical about it, software and computers and telecommunications equipment, written and built in SEA, NWE and SFO/OAK (and financed in NYG/NYJ), form the basis of our military security.

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Support the division: Next season it is perfectly reasonable to assume:

NWE 12-4
NYJ 12-4
BUF 8-8
MIA 8-8,

w/o the AFC North Indy - AFC East Baltimore - AFC South Miami geographic shuffle.