This is simply going to me tossing a few random thoughts out there. Just a few thoughts that have floated through my mind.
Why is it that when conservatives whine about liberals, one of the mantras we all hear is “Get a Job”? I’ve never understood that. Liberals, and moderates tend to work more and harder than conservatives. Not a put down, just the truth. Conservatives tend towards the fat lazy bastard/bitch end of the spectrum.
Is it me, or is all advertising stupid? Can we shoot these useless idiots please? They serve no purpose whatsoever. Here’s an example:
And if you like ads that are entertaining, maybe you need to find something else to do with your time. Like get a job, or a life.
Sometimes I buy books, that for some reason I don’t read. That annoys me, but sometimes I get in over my head and buy something out of my league. Such was the case with The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Propaganda by Jacques Ellul. I’ll get to them, eventually. But not right now.
I could probably list at least 30 books where I’ve done that, but then again there are probably a list of 30 books that I read over, and over, and over again. Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, Candide by Voltaire, Marcus Aurleius’ Meditations, Last Chance To See, By Douglas Adams.
I have been a left wing partisan for a great number of years, and have leaned left even when I didn’t really think much about politics than I had to. If you don’t like it, kiss my ass. I’ve been noticing more and more Right wingers out on the internet lately. And that’s cool, there is a place for everyone. We should all try to occupy the same space, lib and con, rep and dem, moderate and extreme wing nut. Discuss things in a civilized tone.
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. Seems to be on everyone’s lips. And why? Because they’re gonna go up. No one’s happy about it, but it’s not like we didn’t know this day was coming. We’ve known for years. Douglas Holtz Eagin 4 years ago in a CBO report said as much. And you didn’t even need that to know. Taxes had come down for years. Billions in revenue cut, and services had not been cut in kind to meet the loss of income generated by those tax losses. Defense spending went through the roof. Medicare and medicaid spending, up. Health care costs skyrocketing. Did you seriously think prices would stay down forever? Or even a few years more?
If you answered yes, are you high or just stupid and full of bullshit?
Monday is the 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing by the Apollo 11 crew. And the good news is we are going back. If it is possible, I’m going this time. Now I seriously doubt they need copy operators or supervisors on the moon, but I can learn another job to get up there.
Thinking of other lines of work, I am thinking of writing a book. It’s more in the moving from dream to concept stage, but It’s getting there. It could be about going from drunk to runner, and some tales of derring doofus on the road from point A to point B. It could be about politics, or guitar playing, or how to be an evil bastard, or it might come to nothing.
I’ll let you know what, if anything, happens.
Irony spotlight of the day: Amazon becomes big brother, and deletes 1984 and Animal Farm from kindles around the planet, remotely.
Joy.
That’s it for me, except a second viddy. No commentary on it, just watch.
That’s it for me. Later!
Today’s Nuggets, By Charles Dickens, Via Wikiquote: Whether they were right or wrong in this conjecture, certain it is that minds, like bodies, 
will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.
All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
