Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Unstable Jet Streams

They're just the worst. 



I support worker's rights, and I suppose I could post something from Woody Guthrie here in honor of May Day; except I am American enough to find the very idea of political holidays somewhat chilly and I quite strongly prefer to whole phallic-pagan
 May Day thing instead.  Here then is some Coven for you :-)


Sunday, April 27, 2014

FC Top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Atletico Madrid
3. Paris St. Germain
4. Chelsea
5. Real Madrid
6. Cruziero
7. Juventus
8. Manchester City
9. Dortmund
10. Barcelona

Friday, April 25, 2014

Clive Bundy Or: Seriously Though; Motherfuck John Wayne









blog recycling is the new Pepsi :-) 


Even if you consider yourself a property rights absolutist; a pure, real true libertarian capitalist or whatever, it is nowhere written in Smith, Friedman, Hayek etc. that a piece of land belongs to a guy because he says so in an Eastwoody tone of voice. It's clear that Bundy is endowed with an aristocratic, cartoonishly self-superior image of himself.
I'd agree with more measured observers that it's wrong to dismiss right-wing beliefs, even patently absurd ones, as simply a product of stupidity. People as smart as you or I can easily have such beliefs; so long as they endow believers with some sense of personal grandeur or existential security that they value more than reason.
But the rise of this Bundy fanclub does, I think, betray a sort of thoughtless reflexivity. I think it betrays that much of the Right's unyielding demand for absolute capitalism isn't based so much on how Hayek compares to Marx or Keynes or what have you; but rather a superstition that a 'truly free market' would return us to the natural order of things; one where strong, individual Manly man take what they see as fit without challenge and the 'mongrelized' rabble that can't live without them is grateful for it.
Bundy is a White man in a cowboy hat, after all, what more evidence that he must be such a Superman do you need? And further more it's his word against the federal government; (the Feds! you understand) and all good people know that our modern, urban, cosmo/egalitarian society is an unnatural thing that could have only been wrought by an evil Big Government/Bilderberg/N.W.O etc. conspiracy. Given these truths it is a waste of time to concern ourselves with facts.

And as for Bundy's recent self-outing as a big fat racist?  Well of course it was coming.  The man had already revealed himself as a Tory traitor in the course of this dispute; a man who either doesn't believe that there's any such thing as society; or at least as seeing himself above society and us Untermenschen that live in it.   A man who 'loves America' only in as much as he sees America as an extension of himself and as existing in order to aggrandize himself.  Now it isn't strictly necessary for a white man to take such a royal view of himself because he's a white man, but that certainly is the only place that Occam's razor cuts to. 

Monday, April 21, 2014

All I Can Think to Commemorate the Death of G.G. Marquez

Is this thing from other White guys on the US Plains. 

I you'd agree that it's understandable if you understand. 


Sunday, April 20, 2014

Fuck Ham

I've nothing against pork generally.  The only conversion I've ever made was to nothing in my teens and I maintain a convert's passion for that.  But baked ham in particular is just about the least interesting thing that can be done with any food product short of boiled rice.  Ham fucking sucks and should never be the basis for any important ritual meal in any culture.  Happy Easter. 

FC Top 10

Same as last week, but since it's getting late in the year let us list things anyhow. 

1.  Bayern Munich
2. Atletico Madrid
3. Liverpool
4. Paris St. Germain
5. Real Madrid
6. Cruziero
7. Juventus
8. Chelsea
9. Dortmund
10. Barcelona

Thursday, April 17, 2014

One Cut for Radical Freedom

Andre Johnson, an L.A.-based, Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated rapper, jumped off a second-story balcony Wednesday morning in an apparent suicide attempt after cutting off his own penis, TMZ is reporting. 


Those who proclaim a personal god, moral absolutes or at least some form of universal human nature often present their stance as one of stern realism, when it is in fact the highest form of naivete; one that presumes a universe centered upon humans or at least one that cares about people enough to proscribe the true rules for living upon us.  The truth is that we are only more stuff that's here in the universe's eyes and it is up to only us in all our imperfections to make our own rules.  This is not mind you an inherently good thing in a "Just do your own thing Man "  but simply a matter of there being no higher and wiser authority to pass the job onto.  "Condemned to freedom' like the old continental weirdo said.

What this absence of proscribed truth might mean, among other things, is that it isn't so that every man is enthralled by his own penis.  Quick jokes about how much it would suck to get your dick injured are it is true a common way for some men to bond with other men, a means of affecting a breezy openness and familiarity among the unimaginative and dull.  I personally found such ritual joking tedious and stupid when I was only in my teens and what it says about the minds of the then 40something men who spoke this way is something that politeness leads us to ignore.  In truth it is neither fear of a damaged penis nor anything else that bonds men to each other.  Every man must face his own arbitrary fears and desires alone; and there is no abiding reason why a man should not hate his own penis to the point of actively seeking out its death. I would be so bold as to say that he shouldn't. It would fall on someone, after all, to staple the stump closed, which would probably be a negatively affecting experience on an innocent stranger. Still whether a man likes it or not he shall always have the liberty.

I like my own penis well enough myself. I can't say definitively whether I like it more than my eyes hair or feet.  In fact if I were forced to choose I would probably value it less than my collection of hats.  Unfeeling and inorganic as they are or even because of that.  I could not tell you that I feel any deep protective passion for any of the above anyhow because I don't, when push comes to shove.  Still I'll probably be masturbating after dinner and coffee and I do appreciate the ability to do so.  But that's just me. 

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Happy Easterish!!!





Best prog-rock album not made by Pink Floyd.  Haters gonna hate but it's true.  :-)

Monday, April 14, 2014

I've Just Discovered

that novels based on intergenerational family drama, common form though it is, are completely intolerable to me; even torturous.  Human relationships in themselves simply do not have anything of interest or value to me.  Take that for what you will. 

Sunday, April 13, 2014

FC Top 10

1.  Bayern Munich
2. Atletico Madrid
3. Liverpool
4. Paris St. Germain
5. Real Madrid
6. Cruziero
7. Juventus
8. Chelsea
9. Dortmund
10 Barcelona

Friday, April 11, 2014

Babble

I remember when I went to Chimney Rock about this time two years ago.  Or actually about two weeks earlier yet warmer.  It was the year of a hundred days above a hundred.  The March grass was already yellow as it sprouted and on the first day of solar spring a tornado touched down within yards of North Platte's west city limits; or about two miles west of my parents house.  I was there.  Overnighting on my way to Chimney Rock.  The wind caught the screen door on my way out to rubberneck and my father was angry at the damage to the new screen door.  A locomotive was flipped on its side at the train yard west of town and IIRC a horse or something was killed on a farm just above the valley's southern fold and west. 

As I said the storm hit within yards of built up urbanish area. Even in the more outskirty parts of town beyond the west side's main street, Buffalo Bill Ave, there are I'd guess at least 3,4 maybe five thousand people.  We could have been tragedy porn famous.  CNN, BBC, NPR.  A close-knit town on the American heartland comes together' stays North Platte Strong and refuses to accept victimhood. Candlelight vigils, Gaga and Beyoncé covering Sam Cooke together on the NBC telethon.  The Weather Channel with its entire crew including its climate change denying CEO, who orders a story on Pepper the three-legged dachshund mutt too tough to die and now NBC shows the same ads for stairlifts ,walkers medbracelets and such that used to be confined to The Weather Channel. 

Some windows did explode on the west end though no one was hurt.  The Casey's at US 30 and Buffalo Bill had a front window explode but stayed open to sell water cigarettes etc.  I bought a six pack of Keystone Ice and followed the fire trucks southwest to the damaged farms while I drank. 

At Chimney Rock lies a dead Scottish woman born before our independence and already old before White people began to follow the Plattes towards a low spot in the divide.  The woman's grave is kept clean and the stone occasionally updated because she was white and dying here or there is how humans piss on trees. 

Theodore Roosevelt once said that real men are willing to die for the dead. 

Or rather 'the land of their ancestors' or something to that effect.  I've spent too much time trying to look it up.  Theodore Roosevelt once compared running for political office to fighting another man naked.  The strenuous life.  Intimacy.  Anyhow. 

I've been a pallbearer at the funerals of ancestors so I'm home now.  Just like you Lakota President..  I was going to go see you talk last night but I ran across the boys having a liquor drug and chess party instead.  Life right? 

My mother still smokes a pack a day at 56.  My stepfather who I would frankly miss a bit less is 68 and doing well.  Never mind.   The story of how the bluff that the townof Scottsbluff is named for got its name is that a man named Scott was fatally beaten by Natives and crawled all the way up that stone in an attempt to see White help coming from far away; only to die once he made it there.  I've never really believed that story.  

Tommy Chong ran guns for the anti-Medici resistance through a storage shed in Oceanside.  Tommy Chong once described his daughter Rae Dawn Chong as 'a breakfast egg that I can never eat.'  After Tommy Chong was forcibly committed to an asylum and murdered by his DEA informant cellmate the government attempted to have him cremated against his will and scattered in a secret Wyoming oil field until his family fought back in court with the help of an idealistic young lawyer named Zac Efron.  At Chimney Rock it already smelled of baking earth, humidity, grass, valley. 

Court & Jailhouse rocks  lie south of there along a state highway that wasn't paved until the seventies and is never going to be paved all that well; though it can be a Cheyenne-to-Alliance shortcut for the bold.  These are the lesser known trail rocks, more intimate to the young locals from Bridgeport or Bayard.  Here I came with a Bridgeport soda to find used cigarette packs, condoms,  the shell of a Busch 18 pack, shattered 40's of King Cobra, Bud Light, my but I do believe that's a Hurricane there.  I lingered there for half an hour smoking weed, unbothered by local bucks or police, though I was surprised to see something like traffic on the highway.  I was stoned this entire time on indica that my cousin sent me from what in law is Evans Colorado but in spirit is very much Evans, Western Nebraska.  I was high on a perfect day travelling up and down a beautiful corridor and it was wonderful. 

At Kingsley dam there is a lake wind combined with the standard prairie wind and the total wind makes it a generally depressive place unless it's very hot.  Which it wasn't quite on this day, plus it was near sunset and getting cooler; though the view is nice.  I looked down upon the excess water known as Lake Ogallala, where my parents once visited camping friends and my stepfather cautioned against letting our dog Whiskers wonder near a group that may or may not have been Vietnamese for fear they would eat him.  I looked down now to see a few camping there already and beyond to the hamlet of Keystone, home of the generic Christian church where foosball pews are flipped towards the Catholic or Protestant end.  I looked out into the North Platte valley as it curved towards its merger with the South Platte valley some twenty miles west of where the rivers meet. 

Should this dam ever rupture everyone in Keystone is dead within seconds; that's it. The most dire problem would be evacuating North Platte's 25,000 to the Sandhills north or south in the twelve hours they'd have (or was that eighteen or was it eight?) before the town gets firehosed by runaway reservoir.  The aorta of the state, its primary highway and railroad, such heavy industry outside the cities that there is, the greater bulk of its electric grid, radio towers, cellphone towers and television stations, the major towns that serve as 'town' for folk as far as a hundred miles up the hills; North Platte, Lexington, Kearney, Columbus; all of it a jagged stinking ruin.  Every bridge between Lincoln and Omaha ,even those built for ancient autotrails that meandered at right angles at twice the current distance,  viciously torn away.  Only the banks of Missouri herself could absorb the violence and even she would be swollen by it. 

The collapse of this dam would be no more or less than the Nebraskolypse.  I smoke on it.  The sunset as overmaturely intense as the midday warmth of before. 

On the other side of Mcconaughy, where the Platte is just beginning to swell from the obstruction, sits Ash Hollow State Park.  To understand  its history you need only stand here and see the constant topography all around you.  You are still in Nebraska and none of the heights are anything close to extreme.  Still the earth is only either anywhere going up or down.  It is at this latitude that the pioneers decided to switch between the valleys Platte, with Windlass Hill being the last obstacle they faced before being safe in the flatter land of the north valley.  It is dangerously steep for heavily loaded wagons.  Some emigrants made it down by jerry-rigging a sort of pulley system. Others broke wheel tongs, gears, brakes, all the shit that newbies on the Apple II game ignore until they get stuck and starve.  There were a few  cases of wagons losing control and going splush along with pack animals along the valley floor, some broken human limbs too' and even the first local industry of sorts;  predators selling emergency wagon parts at usurious fees; just like the tow truck companies along interstate exits to nowhere you find today. 

Today a walking trail leads from US 26 to the top of Windlass Hill.  There's a recreated soddy ringed by barbed wire to keep today's domestic cattle from eating it. My eighth grade class took a field trip here, on one of those March days that winter was winning the yo-yo war of the transitional season.  We bounded up Windlass Hill in an impromptu race and it was awesome.   On this later day I was two weeks shy of thirty and reveled with the ease that I could still hike it.  Just a little burn in the legs, no worse than courthouse stairs.  At bottom my van sits with no required park sticker  and weed pipe clearly visible through the driver's window.  For this there was no consequence.  It is a day of triumph.  I feel some vague concern over rattlesnakes awoken by the warmth.  It would take ten minutes to get down hill on a polluted leg and then another twenty at least to the Ogallala ER. I have always felt assured; in eighth grade at thirty and today, that I would be bitten by a venomous snake at some defining point of my life. This is not superstition.  If I believe it is not just rational but rationality itself. By the Virgin's tears I despise all superstition. 

I need to reread the local history maybe; or sit again through the state-mandated fourth grade course on Nebraska history and see; perhaps, if anything about it has changed, or more to the point if there was any reason beyond dumbassery for why the pioneers went over the steep hills here instead of remaining on flat ground the whole way; as they could have  Remember now that rivers and valleys are both one not so far east of here.  The point where the valleys divide is called O'Fallons bluff, between the villages of Hershey and Sutherland.  It is here that the Union Pacific built a branch line to off the original transcon; over the easy land.  Stay straight for Cheyenne, Salt Lake and Oakland; switch northwest for Scottsbluff, Casper, Boise and Seattle. A bridge carries US 30 over the branch line today.  In the past there was a grade crossing that I pissed on in front of five cars behind me as a long train veered towards the Powder Basin coal fields. 

Being from within thirty miles of the place I do confess that; though I am an educated man and; or so I would hope, the furthest thing on earth from a provincial man, the thought of someone needing to have Ole's Bar described to them remains alien to me.  Ole is an RIP American who bought a bar drank like a Belle Epoque terrorist and travelled the world shooting things.  There's a stuffed elephant head in Ole's bar, along with a full bodied jaguar, cheetah, various goats antelope and other such ruminants, a bald eagle that's caused some consternation here and there but nothing too serious and most famously a bonafide Russian Polar bear posed eternally fierce in its special display case just as you walk in the front door.  That's what I have for you anyhow, let this section from the bar's own website describe it for you better. 

"Ole worked hard. With help from his mother, Hattie, he ran a good bar. Most of his customers were men, real men. Some of the current waitresses say they were not allowed to go anywhere near the place in the early days. The bar really came alive during hunting season. Ducks, geese, pheasants and quail were plentiful. Fishing was catching on at Lake McConaughy. After a day afield, in the river, or lake, many of the men returned to Ole’s for a night of card playing, bartending and storytelling.
Paxton provided other diversions. Carl Weihe, the Norfolk man who hunted there as a child, recalls that a group of women gathered in the basement of a house in town to clean game birds for hunters. At night, they separated the rooms in the house with sheets hung on clotheslines and performed more personal services. 'My dad said it was a co-op. It was a cheap place to stay. We were sleeping in one of the rooms and I asked dad what all the giggling was about on the other side of the sheets and he told me to shut up and go to sleep. It was some years later before I figured out what was going on.'”

I've heard that the steakhouse across Paxton's main street from Ole's is better, the one that the locals go to. Maybe or maybe not.  Paxton is far too close to North Platte for 'local' wisdom to have any mystique about it.  My mom has a bowling mate from Paxton, good drinking broad.  I prefer Ole's now and always because it caters to tourists; because it has actual beers plural on tap instead of Bud Light and it because it doesn't have a 'salad' bar that is straight up croutons Dorthy Lynch and a bowl of lettuce.  And if it is so that the steak is better at the other place fuck steak anyhow.  I remember receiving a birthday meal at my first job where my superiors flat out refused to accept that I preferred a good cheeseburger to steak.  They thought I was being modest/immature.  It was chiseled in law by God's own lightning that steak and potato was the only ultimate meal for all men amen.  I learned much about how to smell a bigoted dogmatic shithead among those who believed in one true way to eat, to mow and keep one's yard, to plaster one's truck in regaliac pipes lights innuendo and chrome.

Fuck steak.  On this day I dine out alone with all the liberty from bourgeois convention that entails.  I care nothing for the daily special or any other such proper entrée.  Instead I spend ten dollars entirely on onion rings.  Two large orders of onion rings bathed in half a bottle of Heinz 57 and entire bottle of Tabasco and a pint of Empyrean something to drink.  This is the only meal I have on this day and in my radical freedom it is what I would have chosen if it were the last thing I would ever eat.  There are locals at Ole's too, after all  Or at least families with Carhartt hoodied and Stetson hatted father/husbands.  I check my cell phone internet while I eat, avoiding neighboring eyes piercing for a pretext to conversation. 

It's full dark by the time I step back out onto the street.  My van low on gas though nothing that can't wait for North Platte and it's big town competition among dealers.  I consider drinking the 40 I bought at Ogallala's Kwik Stop right here and now but think better of it.  The last light to reach the east as I drive towards it makes the sky a purple silver.  I turn on my heat as it darkens and chills though  the March world already smelled faintly of burned autumn even before.  It will be hot this year. 

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Another Linky Loo Here

In the odd chance that someone reading this hasn't seen this report   on the ongoing, unfailingly foul and absurd Nikko Jenkins affair... 


"Needless to say, our prisons are occupied by many desperate, volatile, and sometimes very dangerous people, many of whom have significant mental health issues, and some of whom suffer from a serious mental illnesses. Mental health practitioners could, and did, differ over the question of whether Nikko Jenkins was mentally ill in the strict, clinical sense, but it seems to have been clear to nearly all mental health specialists who came into contact with Mr. Jenkins that he, at the very least, had some serious behavioral issues, with the potential for dangerous behavior. Throughout his career as an inmate in our correctional system Mr. Jenkins exhibited violent behaviors that repeatedly got him into trouble, and that resulted in his being placed in a segregation cell for a high percentage of his time in the system. During these periods of segregation Mr. Jenkins was locked up alone in a cell for 23 hours per day, and was, by definition, separated from most normal human contact with others for many months at a time. He was also isolated from all but the most rudimentary programming that might otherwise have been made available to him. Programming (for example the Department's violence reduction program) is generally available to inmates in the Nebraska correctional system, but those inmates in segregation are not allowed to have access to this programming, even though they often are some of the most troubled and dangerous inmates in the entire system. All of this might have mattered only to Mr. Jenkins and his family, if Mr. Jenkins had been destined to serve a long sentence in the Nebraska correctional system, but the cold, hard reality was that Mr. Jenkins was an inmate - an often antisocial, deeply troubled, and potentially psychotic inmate - who was likely to be released from State custody in mid-2013."



"Inmate Jenkins has expressed having ongoing homicidal ideations and has made threats to hurt others once he is released from incarceration. He went into detail as to how he would kill others, similar to the recent Von Maur shootings. Inmate Jenkins appears sadistical and potentially harmful, due to homicidal ideations and ongoing verbal intentions to hurt others upon release."


taking over...Patient stated that he is trying to get help but the system is not listening. He
said that Opophus is telling him that the day is coming soon that “they will see.” “When
Opophus takes over that's it.” Patient spoke of how he is fighting the voice in his mind
(Opophus) to destroy Catholics and Christians...continued with homicidal rant about
Opophus taking him over and him killing others once released from prison if he doesn't
get some help."




On and on like this it goes.  Jenkins repeatedly telling prison authorities that he was going to do exactly what he has done if not provided with legal help before being released back into the world, and being ignored. 

Jenkins, as has been widely reported, was released on "good time".  An official term for the early release that every prisoner gets since Nebraska prisons are overfull and our elected officials are both too righteously conservative to reduce or eliminate penalties for nonviolent crimes and too righteously conservative to spend tax dollars on a prison structure adequate to what their "strong" legal mandates actually require.  'Good time' then is quite clearly not the show of mercy or forgiving regard for convicts that the phrase might imply but simply a means for prison officials to do what circumstances leave them no choice but to do. 

Still the phrase 'good time' does allow the Governor, among others, to cling to the belief that crime and public security failures result from a failure of courage to punish evil sufficiently; that 'strength' is the self-evident solution to and the lack of it the self-evident cause of every problem.  The Governor than has responded to this brutish stupidity and the deaths that resulted by calling for the elimination of good time; more citizens of a self-declared free state confined against their wills for longer.  And of course not a dime to house them properly or treat their underlying issues. 


There are still some who might consider treating these underlying issues as being 'soft on crime'.  Come off it.  The dichotomy between only either 'strongly' blaming an individual for his own crimes or 'weakly' blaming society has never existed and you know it.  (Nikko Jenkins is indeed responsible for the murders he committed.  Just as various state officials are responsible for ignoring Jenkins incessantly stated intent to commit those murders .)    If it makes you feel righteous to hold nothing but reflexive contempt for major criminals, if it makes you feel brave to suppose that those who theatrically demand the most brutal penalties for major criminals are the only ones who Really Truly object to murder rape or arson at all, so that you therefore are exceptional merely by being anti-murder, than fine.  Simply know; as it is objectively known, that this position is worse than useless in making your nation, state, community or individual beloveds the slightest bit safer or otherwise better off.  You are free to be as mastabatorily against the most obvious cartoon evil that you like.  But unless you are so Manly and brave as to call for the immediate execution of everyone convicted of every criminal offense than you must accept that the state has no choice but to be so soft as to help them with their underlying problems.  The alternative to this is to improve public safety in no way at all; to perform no public good at all; and of course simply not punishing criminals for their crimes at all would achieve just as much practical good with billions of tax dollars saved. 

You don't want that surely.  And I don't want anything quite so far as that either lefty though I am.  So if you accept that punishment of those evil bad scumbag other people must be qualified and temporary, that a functioning society demands requires that scumbag to be just another someone on the street someday, then you must, if only at the pragmatic level, accept that there must be some softness in how we punish the scumbags.  Imprisonment should be used sparingly, and the condition of jails and prisons must be such that they do not leave the offender in a worse state of soul than when they went in.  Feed them properly and well.  Speak to them in a natural manner as fellow humans.  Treat their addictions, crimes though they may be, as human problems to be helped.  Treat their delusions, violent as may be, as icy blades to be relieved with true human warmth.

Governor Heineman has said Jenkins should receive the death penalty.  Whatever.  Holding Jenkins responsible for his actions is again necessary but not the real problem here.  The problem is that the murders he'd be executed for would have never happened if Jenkins had been given a helpful face to talk too.  These crimes happened because of a failure to be soft enough towards a violent lunatic.  That's just the facts.     



Monday, April 7, 2014

Found This Interesting

Key Quote



"At the same time, consider the words we now consider truly taboo, that we enshroud with a near-religious air of sinfulness. They are, overwhelmingly, epithets aimed at groups.
Gone are the days when our main lexical taboos concerned religion — with “egad” as a way to evade saying “Ye Gods!” — or sex and the body, as when Americans started saying white and dark meat to avoid mentioning breasts and limbs.
Instead, today the abusive use of the N-word, the word beginning with F that refers to homosexual men and a four-letter word for a body part that can be used to refer to women are considered beyond the pale even in casual discourse, to an extent that would baffle a time traveler from as recently as 50 years ago."
 
 
Common courtesy has historically been a system of ritual deference to one's social 'superiors'; such as one's father and/or God.  What we're seeing in both the USA and the wider world is the rise of  more egalitarian, more liberal if you will, ideals of courtesy. For younger generations showing contempt for a random person or group of people has become more risible than irreverence towards one's 'Lords'.  The change in our language and what words are or are not seen as taboo reflects that. 
 
This; of course, is exactly the problem for those who love the good old days.  Some are offended by the very fact that concepts of polite speech have changed or can change; this denies them the assumed power to enforce the True Eternal Rules over the rising generations of young ingrates.  And I'd say that much of the gripes against 'political correctness' comes from a sense that rhetorical politeness towards a group of people is necessarily an act of submission towards them, (as courtesy again has historically been) the ancient fear that there's no such thing as anyone wanting equality but only for Those People to flip the tables of dominance. 
 
Finally there's a sort of 'Donner Party conservative' mindset  that views harsh and condemnatory language as inherently more honest than mild speech; a tendency to presume that truth is not just occasionally harsh but that a thing must be true because it is harsh.  It's an attitude that proclaims itself to be 'realist' but will in fact resort to needful leaps of logic and even magical thinking when its presumptions are put in doubt.  The actual appeal of this attitude isn't its realism but in the way it bases wisdom upon strength and toughness, (manliness if you will) instead of the capacity for complex thought. 
 
But I guess it's of no nevmind really.  Their way is fading out slowly but surely and in the meantime they're free to imagine that society is falling into the hands of naïve philistines.  I wish for nothing but a pleasant day for all old grumps of whatever age and for you as well dear reader. 

Sunday, April 6, 2014

FC top 10

1. Bayern Munich
2. Paris St. Germain
3. Atletico Madrid
4. Manchester City
5. Barcelona
6. Cruziero
7. Juventus
8. Real Madrid
9. Dortmund
10. Liverpool

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Average Cougar

Is in plain fact considerably stronger than an individual man.  So are lots of other things, and that's without even getting into non-organic things that are bound to "live" much longer than we do.  Still the fact that a cougar is stronger than you or me doesn't make them competitors to us for mastery of the Earth, and it's frankly something that one should just get the hell over.  Gotten over without tipping against strawman hippieism as the only possible basis for opposing Cougar hunting in Nebraska.  Ernie Chambers, myself and everybody else know full well that cougars are not cartoon plush toys who just need to be loved.  I am perfectly aware that a cougar would fucking well eat me if it got the chance and I oppose the hunting law not in spite of but wholly independently of that.

Deer hunters have been claiming an 'overpopulation' for their favorite meat as cause to give them freer reign to hunt more.  It is true that driving on our river valley backroads in spring and fall has gotten a bit hazardous, and while human hunters might provide some solution to that the fact is that they will never be as good or efficient at it as True predators (And you ain't never gonna be one of those Jack, sorry) who truly need to hunt.   A native cougar population could take care of all kinds of human health hazards in addition to excess Bambis; plague carrying vermin, meat rotting in the sun, etc, etc.   They would treat themselves to some ranchers cattle from time to time but I'm not going to pretend to shed any tears for the cowboys.  They are just another group of people who live here and we city boys are under no moral bond to differ to them see them as innately noble or tailor our laws in ways that make them happy. They shall still make profit enough and there is no socialist conspiracy to explain why the land doesn't recognize itself as 'theirs'.  At any rate what good does it do a Real Nebraskan to see himself as Grizzly Adams, infinitely stronger and more manly than those boys back East, without actual Grizzlies or something vaguely akin to them to share our home with? Use your head now.....


......and motherfuck this jackass.  It takes precisely as much effort & courage to kill a large cat as it does a chipmunk and don't pretend that you don't know this you fuck.