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           On my trip south yesterday (to south Jersey, not Alabama. I still haven’t been to Alabama since ‘Easy Rider’. Funny thing about media and stereotypes; it’s a powerful glue; keeps me stuck in Monmouth County, New Jersey) passing by milepost 44.4,   I always look (long story) for the little green sign both going and coming. A haggard, old looking Subaru passed on the left with the license plate, 4444.  Spirituality and coincidence gripped me down to Exit 3 and a last dying breed of a sales call. Later, heading back to a northerly persuasion, thoughts of spirit, parallel worlds and quantum minutia absorbed me, passing mileposts until a visual of Jerry Seinfeld and the episode  about ‘Bizarro World.'(a place where things/people are almost the duplicitous same) In my novel, random jolts of irrelevance occupied a main character; maybe it’s a contagion.  As two lanes of the Turnpike (not one pot hole, whatsoever) became three, I thought about that episode and parallel worlds.

            What if I “trip” to a parallel world?  Earth is basically the same. All the characters come on stage again but here’s the bizarro twist; slight changes in attitude, platitude and maybe longitude. Barack Obama is a Republican and gets elected as a Republican Senator and President. No matter what party, he’s still committed to the ideal of getting 34 million Americans health care coverage. So the Republican Health Care Reform Bill gets passed (because Bizarro world, the wording is exactly the same as what passed a few weeks ago on this Earth, 2010) Intent stays the same. Bottom line the same. The notion in a Bizarro world is that it’s all politics. In the Bizarro world, the Democrats, to a person didn’t cast one vote (for the identical Bill wording). Ambience and reality of this Bizarro world is intellectually challenging. What else?

            Bizarro world in the 1960’s. Medicine, politics, industry and humanity all combine and sit together in the pews of decency and intelligent design. The madness and insanity of tobacco is banned at the beginning of the 1970’s and by the 1980’s all traces of humanity’s addiction is gone (of course a few rebels in Bizarro world still manage to grow tobacco in clandestine fields and backyards, some literally right next to Marijuana) Whatever economic and political fallout from the eradication of the malignancy of tobacco (pun intended) is all made up in Bizarro world, pretty much the same way as today’s Earth, in bail-outs galore. Bizarro world does intrigue if you’re a franchise kind of business person. I see all these drive-thru (big Red Letter M) marijuana dispensaries. I was smart enough to invest and own two drive-thru marijuana dispensaries that I passed along to my son in Allentown, Pennsylvania which is a future beach front town)

            Bizarro world fascinates. Imagine all the possibilities especially since it’s been mathematically proven parallel worlds exist. Jersey’s weather has been bizarro. Three days ago, I was down the real Jersey Shore in 95 degree temperature. This morning it was 35 degrees. And I’ll be thinking for the rest of this lazy Saturday all the things I’d do different when (positive thinking) I get back to the future.

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