If you grew up with Kermit the Frog and the Muppets (and you probably did) and your soul hasnt been twisted by carefully studied "coolness", then they've probably left some sort of rainbow and daffodil presence in your heart of hearts. Go on, admit it.
Well, this will either feed that a shot of cheap gin, or kill it outright.
Dont say you werent warned.
There's more Sad Kermit here.
Props to Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
musings
Why do people believe that Republicans are going to do anything about illegal immigration? If anything is true about the Republican Party, it is that it is first and foremost the party of Capitalism, and that means money. It doesnt take much vision to see that whatever walk they may walk, their "social" legislation never gets in the way of those with money making more money, and illegal immigration makes money. In fact, to the pure Capitalist, anything that does not make a maximum profit is considered unethical, which is why corporate buyouts often occur even when said buyout is bad for everybody but the stockholders.
Okay, I've got a question: In a polygamist society, it seems like you'd have a lot of disaffected unmarried men, since in all of them that I've heard of, it's only good for the gander, not the goose. This means that if the practice were widespread, you'd either have a lot of lonely, angry, single men or a lot of cheating. Seems to me that polygamy only works if the practicing group is small and has an adjacent society to siphon women-folk off from.
Or maybe it works just like money, wherein the guys with all the money get all the girls, (in addition to everything else). When you come right down to it, Republicans ought to be in favor of polygamy, since it's really just sexual capitalism. To insist on "One Man/One Woman" smacks a bit of socialism, doesnt it?
Can you see a time in the future when governments such as Burmas are charged with crimes against humanity, and world powers step in to eliminate the problem? No? Me neither. Seems like a good idea, though. I mean, if there was a city in your state being run by a criminal gang, you'd expect the state cops, if not the FBI, to bust up the gang and return the city to the people's control (Hey! Stop that snickering! Dont think I dont hear you). Call it humanitarian colonialism, where instead of invading a country to steal its resources, we do so to eliminate human suffering.
If Barack Obama loses the nomination and/or the election, it will be because he's played the gentleman card, and in America, the concept of gentlemanly behavior is dead. We've decided that gentlemen are "elitists" and would rather have oafs and bullies make our decisions. Take that England!
Okay, I've got a question: In a polygamist society, it seems like you'd have a lot of disaffected unmarried men, since in all of them that I've heard of, it's only good for the gander, not the goose. This means that if the practice were widespread, you'd either have a lot of lonely, angry, single men or a lot of cheating. Seems to me that polygamy only works if the practicing group is small and has an adjacent society to siphon women-folk off from.
Or maybe it works just like money, wherein the guys with all the money get all the girls, (in addition to everything else). When you come right down to it, Republicans ought to be in favor of polygamy, since it's really just sexual capitalism. To insist on "One Man/One Woman" smacks a bit of socialism, doesnt it?
Can you see a time in the future when governments such as Burmas are charged with crimes against humanity, and world powers step in to eliminate the problem? No? Me neither. Seems like a good idea, though. I mean, if there was a city in your state being run by a criminal gang, you'd expect the state cops, if not the FBI, to bust up the gang and return the city to the people's control (Hey! Stop that snickering! Dont think I dont hear you). Call it humanitarian colonialism, where instead of invading a country to steal its resources, we do so to eliminate human suffering.
If Barack Obama loses the nomination and/or the election, it will be because he's played the gentleman card, and in America, the concept of gentlemanly behavior is dead. We've decided that gentlemen are "elitists" and would rather have oafs and bullies make our decisions. Take that England!
You Are Punk Music |
 You've thought long and hard about what mainstream society has to offer... And you've pretty much decided that most normal things aren't for you. You're creative, expressive, and likely to do things yourself. You are a rebel and a fighter. You'll defend your point of view to anyone. |
props to Lydia
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
quick note
Sunday, May 04, 2008
sunday night at the movies
glumbert - He's Dead Jim
You know, I surely loves me some Star Trek (as you may recall).
props to Pooby
Saturday, May 03, 2008
change
Is it just me, or is nobody reading this thing anymore? Sitemeter is discouraging, seems that if it werent for my I-pod post of a while back, and that one about popsicle stick trebuches, I'd hardly get any hits at all.
Maybe it's the time of year... Nope, just checked, and last year was chock full'o comments.
sigh. Listen to me, feelin' all sorry for myself.
Maybe if I wrote something remotely interesting from time to time.
Anyway, a new header for the current reality.
Maybe it's the time of year... Nope, just checked, and last year was chock full'o comments.
sigh. Listen to me, feelin' all sorry for myself.
Maybe if I wrote something remotely interesting from time to time.
Anyway, a new header for the current reality.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
musings
Lately I've been too busy (or too tired) to post, but here are some random thoughts that might make the cut to formal post stage someday:
1) Isnt it funny that Republicans seem to hate Muslims so much? Because, in all the world, is there anyplace more conservative than the Muslim part of it? They seems like natural allies.
2) Christianity basically says that God sent his only child to earth to be tortured to death for the purpose of providing a portal for humans to enter Heaven through. This they believe to be true, and yet so many of them resist the idea that millions of years worth of buried CO2, pulled from the earth and burned into the atmosphere, is causing the planet to warm up. Which is the crazier story?
3) Maybe it should be no surprise that religion is involved in national politics. After all, isnt pretty much everything that we know about the national scene second-hand information, at best. We personally witness very little, and so have to take the word of others on what's happening. How does that differ from religion?
4) All anyone has are a few facts gathered in the now. Everything else has been colored by memory or has been recieved second-hand (at best). Truly, even things you witness right now are filtered through your own prejudices and beliefs, and so will be seen differently by someone else. The point here is that we all have merely a shadowy idea of what's going on that's only half-informed. Everything else is filled in by our imagination. It is myth-making. We tell ourselves stories, and believe them to be truth.
Feel free to agree or to tear into me.
1) Isnt it funny that Republicans seem to hate Muslims so much? Because, in all the world, is there anyplace more conservative than the Muslim part of it? They seems like natural allies.
2) Christianity basically says that God sent his only child to earth to be tortured to death for the purpose of providing a portal for humans to enter Heaven through. This they believe to be true, and yet so many of them resist the idea that millions of years worth of buried CO2, pulled from the earth and burned into the atmosphere, is causing the planet to warm up. Which is the crazier story?
3) Maybe it should be no surprise that religion is involved in national politics. After all, isnt pretty much everything that we know about the national scene second-hand information, at best. We personally witness very little, and so have to take the word of others on what's happening. How does that differ from religion?
4) All anyone has are a few facts gathered in the now. Everything else has been colored by memory or has been recieved second-hand (at best). Truly, even things you witness right now are filtered through your own prejudices and beliefs, and so will be seen differently by someone else. The point here is that we all have merely a shadowy idea of what's going on that's only half-informed. Everything else is filled in by our imagination. It is myth-making. We tell ourselves stories, and believe them to be truth.
Feel free to agree or to tear into me.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
no worries
All work and no play makes Dave a dull blogger, but I wanted to throw out this tidbit:
However bad the economy might be right now, it's neither too bad, nor bad enough for Americans to rise up and demand that our "leaders" really do something about it. How do I know this? Because the Hannah Montana Corporation is expected to be a billion dollar business by next year. So if we've all got that much money to throw away on a child pop star, and this is everyone, not just the richest one-percenters paying her, then we've obviously not yet hit the point of pain. Or, at least as far as our Masters are concerned, not anyone important.
See you at the pump!
addendum:
I dont actually care much about the whole Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair flap, but if you want to read more about it, this would be what I might have said, had I been a bit smarter and more interested.
props to the princess
Okay, and I'll throw in this article about the flap by Jamie Lee Curtis, mostly just because I really like Jamie Lee Curtis.
Seriously, though, this wasnt supposed to be about the Vanity Fair shoot.
However bad the economy might be right now, it's neither too bad, nor bad enough for Americans to rise up and demand that our "leaders" really do something about it. How do I know this? Because the Hannah Montana Corporation is expected to be a billion dollar business by next year. So if we've all got that much money to throw away on a child pop star, and this is everyone, not just the richest one-percenters paying her, then we've obviously not yet hit the point of pain. Or, at least as far as our Masters are concerned, not anyone important.See you at the pump!
addendum:
I dont actually care much about the whole Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair flap, but if you want to read more about it, this would be what I might have said, had I been a bit smarter and more interested.
props to the princess
Okay, and I'll throw in this article about the flap by Jamie Lee Curtis, mostly just because I really like Jamie Lee Curtis.
Seriously, though, this wasnt supposed to be about the Vanity Fair shoot.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
drawing animals
Okay, let's just say that the elephant has no idea what it's doing, but has simply been trained to paint this image over and over again. It's still pretty impressive. And if the images come from the elephant's own imagination? What does that say about us?
Props to The Daly Blog
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Dave's Blogroll, ver. 3.0
Okay, I think this thing is ready...
Welcome to Dave's Blogroll, ver.3.0. It's been over two years since the last blogroll, so I'm way past due. This time, I'm cloaking my blogroll in the cloth of the Blogroll Amnesty idea presented by Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and John Swift. The idea was to create links to the little guys, a kind of grassroots blogging interconnectivity movement.
And damn straight I'm all in favor of that. One of the beauties of blogging is that everyone can do it, but if the only blogs you read are the Big Boys, it makes all that creative (and communicative) effort pointless. Plus, if there's a problem with anything and everything in America, I suspect a lot of it can be linked strongly with the consolidation of media outlets by an ever-shrinking number of holders. The MSM is Authoritarian, while blogs are Democratic!
There's a lot of links here, and it's all pretty good stuff, too, though I dont think any of them are what one would call Big Boys (or Girls). Dont read anything into the order things are listed in, at least within their catagories. I'm too old (and too lazy) to be playing the Favorites Game, okay. And, please, if you're not listed on the sidebar, dont take that personal either. Well, maybe a little personal, since those are the ones that I read regularly, but who the hell am I, anyway?
previous blogrolls: blogroll no. 2, blogroll no. 1
blogtrolls: no. 5, no. 4, no. 3, no. 2, or maybe it's no. 1, as I cant actually find 2 more in the archives.
Welcome to Dave's Blogroll, ver.3.0. It's been over two years since the last blogroll, so I'm way past due. This time, I'm cloaking my blogroll in the cloth of the Blogroll Amnesty idea presented by Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and John Swift. The idea was to create links to the little guys, a kind of grassroots blogging interconnectivity movement.
And damn straight I'm all in favor of that. One of the beauties of blogging is that everyone can do it, but if the only blogs you read are the Big Boys, it makes all that creative (and communicative) effort pointless. Plus, if there's a problem with anything and everything in America, I suspect a lot of it can be linked strongly with the consolidation of media outlets by an ever-shrinking number of holders. The MSM is Authoritarian, while blogs are Democratic!
There's a lot of links here, and it's all pretty good stuff, too, though I dont think any of them are what one would call Big Boys (or Girls). Dont read anything into the order things are listed in, at least within their catagories. I'm too old (and too lazy) to be playing the Favorites Game, okay. And, please, if you're not listed on the sidebar, dont take that personal either. Well, maybe a little personal, since those are the ones that I read regularly, but who the hell am I, anyway?
These are my mutual blogs, that is, we link to each other.
100 Farmers
Library Bitch
Reverend Billy Bob Gisher @ Mental Masturbation
The Osterly Times
The Existentialist Cowboy
The Omnipotent Poobah
United We Lay
der Hundepo
Saurly Yours
Lydia Valentine
Spoonfighter
spiiderweb™
Monkey Eggs
Rational Rant
The Sapient Sutler
J. R. Kinnard
It's My Right To Be Left Of Center
These are the blogs that I read a lot:
Contrary Brin
Rude Pundit
Blog Around The Clock
What's Alan Watching?
Ran Prieur
Raed In The Middle
A Softer World
xkcd
The Liberal Doomsayer
Newsmericks
Spread The Good Word
These are blogs that I dont read a lot, but really should:
123 I Love You
Princess Sparkle Pony's Photo Blog
Haphazard Musings
(Not Only) Hotel Room Nudes
Bearskin Rug
Beam Me Up
Corrente
Have Coffee, Will Write
Consider This
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Welcome To The Now
The Neural Gourmet
Iraq Today
Watergate Summer
Gus Van Horn
Little Man, What Now?
Tales of the Cupcake Mafia
Flan: not quite jelly, not quite cake
Zen Filter
Fish or Cut Bait
The Daly Blog
The Daily Nooz
SPOtastic
Ghetto Uprising
"Bigger" blogs that I read from time to time: (definition: anyone who regularly gets a lot of comments)
Clusterfuck Nation
Bitch, phd.
Pandagon
Boing Boing
Blog For America
Suburban Turmoil
Demonbaby
Crooks and Liars
Robert Reich
Yeah, I consider myself a Liberal, but some of that's due to gentrification:
The Smallest Minority
The Underground Logician
The Reform Club
Other cool Internet stuff:
Internet Public Library
TPM cafe
Worldchanging
Uncyclopedia: not Wikipedia
Biblical Legos
The Six Lessons of School
The Costs of War
Futuro House
previous blogrolls: blogroll no. 2, blogroll no. 1
blogtrolls: no. 5, no. 4, no. 3, no. 2, or maybe it's no. 1, as I cant actually find 2 more in the archives.
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