...and keep your damn cats inside. I understand you're socially retarded and need a substitute for actual human relationships, but you're an inconsiderate asshole for letting your cats run around and crap in your neighbors' yards, sandboxes, etc. I hope you and your cats get hit by cars, struck by lightning, afflicted with chronic wasting disease, eaten by fire ants, etc., etc., ad nauseum. I hate you.
much peace,
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
On a Lighter? Note...
Any "man" who fake tans should just buy a cat and get the operation. You're not fooling anyone.
much peace,
much peace,
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Penn State is Superior to the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, from little country parishes all the way up to the Vatican denied, blamed victims, blamed the media and fired almost no one. They did that for over a century, at least. They transferred pedophiles around and provided them fresh kids to abuse. They paid blood money to have the cases hushed up, and the real power brokers like John Paul II, Pope Ratzinger, etc. etc. ad nauseum, had zero sanctions or penalties against them.
Penn State took a long time (13 years), but at least they've now fired the powerful men who averted their eyes and let the little children suffer. They were wrong, and they failed kids, but at least they're doing the right thing now, and through their actions admitting that the institution failed.They haven't blamed the victims, or demonized the media like Ratzinger and his cronies did. The Catholic Church has issued a few grudging apologies, but their actions show no willingness in the upper hierarchy to take responsibility, and they never will. They just blame it on the gays and let the cold heartless bastards who fed and enabled the pedophiles keep their cushy jobs.
Two failures: hugely different in scale, but both heartbreaking. The notable difference is in response, though, and the willingness of one institution to take action against those who knew and did nothing. The other, larger institution has not and will not do that, which is why they still have all of my scorn, contempt and wishes for fire.
much peace
Penn State took a long time (13 years), but at least they've now fired the powerful men who averted their eyes and let the little children suffer. They were wrong, and they failed kids, but at least they're doing the right thing now, and through their actions admitting that the institution failed.They haven't blamed the victims, or demonized the media like Ratzinger and his cronies did. The Catholic Church has issued a few grudging apologies, but their actions show no willingness in the upper hierarchy to take responsibility, and they never will. They just blame it on the gays and let the cold heartless bastards who fed and enabled the pedophiles keep their cushy jobs.
Two failures: hugely different in scale, but both heartbreaking. The notable difference is in response, though, and the willingness of one institution to take action against those who knew and did nothing. The other, larger institution has not and will not do that, which is why they still have all of my scorn, contempt and wishes for fire.
much peace
Friday, October 7, 2011
Steve Jobs: The Perfect Deity for a Culture of Desperately Insecure and Superficial Consumers
Steve Jobs revolutionized the repackaging and delivery of more and crappier media to people with hundreds of dollars to spend on the emperor's new information skins. What a pioneer! He helped so many desperately middle class folks watch yet another James Cameron abortion on four-inch screens. He saved so many technologically indigent hipsters from the tragic indignity of not having wireless devices that doubled as pretend beer mugs or cigarette lighters. Most importantly, he gave millions the opportunity to feel smug about their choice of meaningless tech. Steve Jobs understood the soul of America, and he exploited it as well as (if not better than) any soda company, fast food joint, auto company or clothing manufacturer.
The soul of America is as follows: The false expression of self and superiority through the mass purchase of whatever is best marketed as new, better and different.
That's it, peeps. That's all. That's what we're about in this culture. Jobs knew it just like Pepsi, Nike and BMW know it. We're all bleating little sheep whose sense of self worth is overwhelmingly determined by how much and what kind of crap we own. This is nowhere more apparent than in the tech industry, where companies fiercely compete for your attention(DD), while there are very few actual qualitative differences between products, the religious arguments of their respective cults notwithstanding. Lost in this fight for your superficial souls is the ugly fact that what skin you put on superficial inane crap doesn't change the fact that it's superficial inane crap. You're still an idiot for watching Avatar or Fast and Furious, regardless of the device on which you watch it, and you're still a rude asshole talking on the phone while your cashier serves you, regardless of whether you're talking on an iPhone or a Droid. You're still a smelly nerd for playing World of Warcraft, no matter what souped-up 21st century version of a muscle car you use to propel your nerd-dom.
Again, that's just who we are: chimps impressed and possessed by shiny new toys. Jobs was a smart chimp who did an effective job packaging new toys to play the same old stupid games. I'm sorry for anyone who dies of cancer, or of any other painful and incapacitating condition, but I'm not going to pretend Jobs was anything but the latest snake oil salesman with his finger on the pulse of our collective and vapid greed. Our desperation has become unquiet, but it's not much different that what Thoreau recognized. Good thing we have piles of morebetterdifferent crap to distract us.
much peace
The soul of America is as follows: The false expression of self and superiority through the mass purchase of whatever is best marketed as new, better and different.
That's it, peeps. That's all. That's what we're about in this culture. Jobs knew it just like Pepsi, Nike and BMW know it. We're all bleating little sheep whose sense of self worth is overwhelmingly determined by how much and what kind of crap we own. This is nowhere more apparent than in the tech industry, where companies fiercely compete for your attention(DD), while there are very few actual qualitative differences between products, the religious arguments of their respective cults notwithstanding. Lost in this fight for your superficial souls is the ugly fact that what skin you put on superficial inane crap doesn't change the fact that it's superficial inane crap. You're still an idiot for watching Avatar or Fast and Furious, regardless of the device on which you watch it, and you're still a rude asshole talking on the phone while your cashier serves you, regardless of whether you're talking on an iPhone or a Droid. You're still a smelly nerd for playing World of Warcraft, no matter what souped-up 21st century version of a muscle car you use to propel your nerd-dom.
Again, that's just who we are: chimps impressed and possessed by shiny new toys. Jobs was a smart chimp who did an effective job packaging new toys to play the same old stupid games. I'm sorry for anyone who dies of cancer, or of any other painful and incapacitating condition, but I'm not going to pretend Jobs was anything but the latest snake oil salesman with his finger on the pulse of our collective and vapid greed. Our desperation has become unquiet, but it's not much different that what Thoreau recognized. Good thing we have piles of morebetterdifferent crap to distract us.
much peace
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Hey Old Bean
Just a quick shout to my pops. From a jaded kid who's never really believed in anything: I've always and without any doubt believed in you. Thanks for always being a rock, old man.
much peace,
much peace,
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Let Me Be the Millstone
"Under the same May 2010 revision of the Vatican's sex abuse norms, acquiring, possessing and distributing pornography of children under age 14 years is considered to be an equally serious canonical crime that is dealt with by the Congregation."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110412/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_church_abuse?mwp_success=NONJS_POST_SUCCESS#mwpphu-container
Kiddie porn of children OVER 14, however, is not nearly as serious. Really, the Catholic Cosa Nostra does not consider any child abuse a serious issue unless it is publicized. This collection of diddlers and their enablers could not care less about the damage done to their victims. They only care about damage control for the Corporation if they get caught. You'll notice they say nothing about de-frocking the pedophile in this article. They also say Pope Ratzinger, the Patron Saint of Pedophiles, will have the final say on his sentence. These are bad, bad people who stay in power because millions of rank and file Catholic cult members care more about their brand loyalty than the safety of kids. If you identify as Catholic and give support and funding to these criminals, you're part of the problem. They get away with it because 800 million of you refuse to stop them.
I don't believe in any of this weak-minded imaginary unicorn bullshit, but the imaginary Christ I read about in the mythology would NOT be down with the current batch of wealthy overfed child abusers who diddle kids and skate in his name.
"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble." (Luke 17:2)
I would be the millstone and the sea.
much peace
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110412/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_church_abuse?mwp_success=NONJS_POST_SUCCESS#mwpphu-container
Kiddie porn of children OVER 14, however, is not nearly as serious. Really, the Catholic Cosa Nostra does not consider any child abuse a serious issue unless it is publicized. This collection of diddlers and their enablers could not care less about the damage done to their victims. They only care about damage control for the Corporation if they get caught. You'll notice they say nothing about de-frocking the pedophile in this article. They also say Pope Ratzinger, the Patron Saint of Pedophiles, will have the final say on his sentence. These are bad, bad people who stay in power because millions of rank and file Catholic cult members care more about their brand loyalty than the safety of kids. If you identify as Catholic and give support and funding to these criminals, you're part of the problem. They get away with it because 800 million of you refuse to stop them.
I don't believe in any of this weak-minded imaginary unicorn bullshit, but the imaginary Christ I read about in the mythology would NOT be down with the current batch of wealthy overfed child abusers who diddle kids and skate in his name.
"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble." (Luke 17:2)
I would be the millstone and the sea.
much peace
Monday, April 11, 2011
Eyes Without a Face
So France arrested a few women earlier today who protested the new veil ban by wearing full face coverings in public. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_france_veil_ban).
The root of the problem is the desperate need of weak-minded people to believe that some bearded sky fairy cares what they wear, or eat, or with whom they copulate. I'm not really comfortable with these women being arrested or fined, but I do think anti-intellectual religious devotion (I know, redundant) is much more dangerous. When I see anyone decked out in religious gear, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, etc., I automatically think: "intellectual inferior."
much peace,
The root of the problem is the desperate need of weak-minded people to believe that some bearded sky fairy cares what they wear, or eat, or with whom they copulate. I'm not really comfortable with these women being arrested or fined, but I do think anti-intellectual religious devotion (I know, redundant) is much more dangerous. When I see anyone decked out in religious gear, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, etc., I automatically think: "intellectual inferior."
much peace,
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