... to bring you an update on a matter of great significance:
It's officially October, and the Royals are still playing ball!!!!!!!!!
Please pardon the nostalgia from a middle-aged, long-suffering Royals
fan. My old man and my big brother Chris took me to Game 5 of the 1985 ALCS. I was 12, and
it's one of the best memories of my childhood. Royals were down 3-1 in
the series, had to win to stay in. Danny Jackson pitched a gem, and KC
manufactured two small ball runs and held on.
That team was a bunch of fighters, and while I know better than to make
any predictions, this 2014 squad is satisfying to watch for the same
reason.
much peace,
tjb
Friday, October 3, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Ebola Is Here
http://news.yahoo.com/dallas-er-sent-ebola-infected-patient-home-050718374.html
About 80 people (they think) have had direct contact with this guy.What's the CDC going to do when they find the next infection outside that web? Why in all the cold hells do we not have a travel ban from the affected countries? I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, but one way or the other, we've been betrayed. Either those in power want the disease to spread here, or they are simply horribly incompetent and have not taken the necessary stringent measures to prevent it from doing so. Whichever, it's going to spread.
William has anxiously asked me multiple times lately if Ebola "could happen here." I have reassured him each time that no, it cannot. Apparently I'm a dirty liar, because it's absolutely happening here.
much peace,
tjb
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
The Holy Bearded Unicorn Says to Protect Pedophiles
The Catholic church does it again.
http://cnsnews.com/commentary/fr-frank-pavone/state-demands-la-priest-violate-confessional-or-go-jail
What the Holy Sacred Jesus Christ Almighty Uber-Priest writing this article deliberately leaves out is that the crime the church wants to keep hidden is the continuing sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl by a parishoner.
Here's the thing: I don't give the smallest fuck about your double secret supernatural lucky charms confessional that magically confers legal immunity to its participants. I really don't. I also could not possibly care less about the state of the retarded and imaginary "immortal souls" that you consider so much more important than the actual really real world violation and agony of a really real world 12-year-old child. That's the church, though, and religion in general. Their made-up superfriends club abstractions, and their loyalty to those brands, will ultimately and ALWAYS trump competing interests in the real world.
I hope both the piece of shit abuser and the characteristically enabling piece of shit priest (I know, redundant) both get their balls stuck in a bicycle chain before falling into fire ant mounds.
much peace (but not for wacky cult leaders)
tjb
http://cnsnews.com/commentary/fr-frank-pavone/state-demands-la-priest-violate-confessional-or-go-jail
What the Holy Sacred Jesus Christ Almighty Uber-Priest writing this article deliberately leaves out is that the crime the church wants to keep hidden is the continuing sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl by a parishoner.
Here's the thing: I don't give the smallest fuck about your double secret supernatural lucky charms confessional that magically confers legal immunity to its participants. I really don't. I also could not possibly care less about the state of the retarded and imaginary "immortal souls" that you consider so much more important than the actual really real world violation and agony of a really real world 12-year-old child. That's the church, though, and religion in general. Their made-up superfriends club abstractions, and their loyalty to those brands, will ultimately and ALWAYS trump competing interests in the real world.
I hope both the piece of shit abuser and the characteristically enabling piece of shit priest (I know, redundant) both get their balls stuck in a bicycle chain before falling into fire ant mounds.
much peace (but not for wacky cult leaders)
tjb
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
OMG! UR Such a Silly Bitch!!!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/01/woman-texting-impaled-buttocks/14918723/
We are a society comprised almost entirely of narcissistic teenage girls. We cannot for one moment be separated from the constant communication and affirmation we so desperately need.
When I see someone on their goddamn phone in traffic, I automatically (and accurately) think, "Oh look, a socially retarded teenage drama queen who can't go ten minutes without someone paying attention to her."
Seriously. It doesn't matter what age or gender you believe you are. If you're texting on the road, you are a narcissistic teenage girl.
much peace,
tjb
We are a society comprised almost entirely of narcissistic teenage girls. We cannot for one moment be separated from the constant communication and affirmation we so desperately need.
When I see someone on their goddamn phone in traffic, I automatically (and accurately) think, "Oh look, a socially retarded teenage drama queen who can't go ten minutes without someone paying attention to her."
Seriously. It doesn't matter what age or gender you believe you are. If you're texting on the road, you are a narcissistic teenage girl.
much peace,
tjb
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
No Shit, Dick Tracy
Anyone who thought that the invasion of Iraq was going to turn out any differently than it is was a complete fucking moron, as I stated multiple times during the lead-up to and execution of this foreign policy abortion.
Invade, break the infrastructure, demolish the security and lose billions. Check.
For the folks who say we should stay until we "win." You're fucking retarded. Unless we were to A) Turn it into a parking lot or B) Stay there and rule it for 7 or 8 generations, there was never going to be any "winning." This was a big yowling ball of feral cats from the beginning.
As I stated 5 years ago:
Are we safer with 600,000 - 1 million Iraqis dead? I doubt it. After 9/11, this country reserved the right to remember and hate without stint or discretion. What about the Iraqi shopkeeper who saw his son blown in half by good old American know-how, or the 8-year-old who saw his parents murdered in an elective war? Don't the friends and relatives of the dead and maimed in Iraq and Gaza have the same perpetual right to rage and hatred that I would if my toddlers were murdered by another country's bombs, or is the horrible choking, desperate grief of middle-eastern non-christians and non-Jews somehow less real, their bereavement less keen, because American exceptionalism has designated their sacrifice acceptable?
Let's for a moment pretend that these actions have made us safer, rather than simply hardening another generation of anti-American sentiment. I still can't look another father in the eye and say, "your child shall be killed, blown apart, so that mine can maintain the lifestyle to which he is accustomed," or to another son, "Your father will be burned to death with white phosphorous so that my old man can retire without stress." The price is too great.
Self-congratulatory, preening fucks like W.F. Buckley will prate about the existential threat; neocons think it's our divine right to conquer the world. The world bank, the military-industrial complex, and all their economic hit men think only of profit. I just can't get that orphaned father out of my head. I know how I would feel if my boys were taken from me. There is no amount of bloodshed that would sate me, no salve would tame the violence. Our American attitude, though, doesn't recognize our murders as real people or real deaths, just acceptable statistics in pursuit of our "interests." I don't know, maybe we've killed enough people to make us more secure for a little while. I don't think attrition is a long-term fix, though, unless we're willing to implement a Final Solution and simply kill everybody whose interests run contrary to ours. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before those we've brutalized gather enough strength and numbers to attack us again.
As Thomas McGrath said:
much peace, for us anyway
tjb
Invade, break the infrastructure, demolish the security and lose billions. Check.
For the folks who say we should stay until we "win." You're fucking retarded. Unless we were to A) Turn it into a parking lot or B) Stay there and rule it for 7 or 8 generations, there was never going to be any "winning." This was a big yowling ball of feral cats from the beginning.
As I stated 5 years ago:
Are we safer with 600,000 - 1 million Iraqis dead? I doubt it. After 9/11, this country reserved the right to remember and hate without stint or discretion. What about the Iraqi shopkeeper who saw his son blown in half by good old American know-how, or the 8-year-old who saw his parents murdered in an elective war? Don't the friends and relatives of the dead and maimed in Iraq and Gaza have the same perpetual right to rage and hatred that I would if my toddlers were murdered by another country's bombs, or is the horrible choking, desperate grief of middle-eastern non-christians and non-Jews somehow less real, their bereavement less keen, because American exceptionalism has designated their sacrifice acceptable?
Let's for a moment pretend that these actions have made us safer, rather than simply hardening another generation of anti-American sentiment. I still can't look another father in the eye and say, "your child shall be killed, blown apart, so that mine can maintain the lifestyle to which he is accustomed," or to another son, "Your father will be burned to death with white phosphorous so that my old man can retire without stress." The price is too great.
Self-congratulatory, preening fucks like W.F. Buckley will prate about the existential threat; neocons think it's our divine right to conquer the world. The world bank, the military-industrial complex, and all their economic hit men think only of profit. I just can't get that orphaned father out of my head. I know how I would feel if my boys were taken from me. There is no amount of bloodshed that would sate me, no salve would tame the violence. Our American attitude, though, doesn't recognize our murders as real people or real deaths, just acceptable statistics in pursuit of our "interests." I don't know, maybe we've killed enough people to make us more secure for a little while. I don't think attrition is a long-term fix, though, unless we're willing to implement a Final Solution and simply kill everybody whose interests run contrary to ours. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before those we've brutalized gather enough strength and numbers to attack us again.
As Thomas McGrath said:
And now, you celebrated American jackasses:
You still want war?
Go let a hole in the head shed light on your darkling brain-
Remember Vietnam?
You still want war?
Go let a hole in the head shed light on your darkling brain-
Remember Vietnam?
Go and be damned!
But don’t count on me for nothing you righteous
stupid sons of bitches !
But don’t count on me for nothing you righteous
stupid sons of bitches !
much peace, for us anyway
tjb
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Lazy Day
The boys and I went out and drowned a few worms today. We found a couple of shady spots, and it stayed breezy and cool all afternoon. Fishing was slow, but the boys caught several small bluegill. They also found a duck and her ducklings, all four of whom appeared unafraid and content to be observed at close range.
much peace,
tjb
much peace,
tjb
Friday, June 13, 2014
Interlude
I left work on my bicycle on Wednesday, and decided to add just a couple miles to the ride home. I cut through Calvary Cemetery and out to 78th and Center, then turned into Pipal Park. There were picnic tables in the shade on the west side of the park, and I took a half an hour to sit in the shifting sun and shade, to drink in the breeze and too-sweet coffee, and to revel for a while in the winsome airs of Faulkner's honeysuckle.
much peace,
tjb
much peace,
tjb
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