Pollywogs!

That is what I told myself, and if I can’t keep my own promises to myself…

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Children of Men, not only a good movie, but coming to a small town near you!

Related: Speaking of illegal immigrants…

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I liked the one with the paint brush…

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Held for 13 hours…christ, cops don’t like it when they look like dumbasses…note to self, never make a cop feel like a dumbass…assholes with guns and power-crazed egos aren’t the type to piss off…

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Vermont is bad-ass…a whole town, and only one cock-starved prude and a shamed pedophile Reverend speak out against public nudity…

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Fuck(ed by) the man. Or, is SAP coming as quickly as they promise?

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Oh, you take a region filled with people who hate each other and have no loyalties to any greater concept, and (illegally) remove the brutal dictator who was putting on a good show of stability…and something bad happens? Not to mention the pile of mistakes that were (purposefully?) made which contributed to the inevitable collapse (hello, disbanding the army and firing anyone with a dissenting opinion)…

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Oh yea, that book I figured would be cool by Al Gore? Turns out it is cool:

“Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: “This chamber is, for the most part, silent—ominously, dreadfully silent. There is no debate, no discussion, no attempt to lay out for the nation the pros and cons of this particular war. There is nothing. We stand passively mute in the United States Senate.”

Why was the Senate silent?

In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?” The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.”

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Location, location, location. Or, a house doesn’t HAVE to face the road. It could take advantage of the local microclimate to enormous effect…

Speaking of taking cars off the road…no, that will have to wait for another time…

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Tellin it like it is:

“I don’t trust our government, and I don’t like the war in Iraq, and guess what? I still support the troops, I’m still smart, and I’m still a patriot, whether you like it or not.”

I hate to say to someone who doesn’t know me that I am a ‘liberal’ because I do not fit inside a small tidy labeled box. It takes more than fifteen seconds to explain my political viewpoint:

“Saying something like, “I support the troops, but not the war” takes too long to explain in a climate where you only ever have fifteen seconds to speak, and where a thousand pundits are poised to scream “traitor!” the moment you deviate from their way of thinking. Or to scream “socialist!” the moment you suggest that perhaps a capitalist country could have a national health care plan and a free market at the same time.”

The entire article is well worth the time to read. FWIT, I wrote this about four months ago on Reddit:

“The damnedest thing with labels is people expect concepts to rest neatly inside that tidy box…

I like to think of myself first as independent Libertarian, followed by a casual Buddhist, then next as slightly Liberal, then probably as a member of the Green Party (have you ever read their platform? talk about common sense!), followed by Conservative, and finally as an agnostic who in a practical sense is an atheist….how can I be all of those things at the same time? Because NONE OF THOSE LABELS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH REALITY. You can’t simply paint gigantic swaths of existence with a simple little label like ‘Conservative’ and then expect everything to remain neatly classified…

By claiming that ALL Libertarians are shitheads because there are a couple nutjobs who get exposure is like saying all Republicans/Conservatives are nutjobs because of Rush and Ann, or all Liberals are nutjobs because of Wesley Clark (not that I think he is or is not a nutjob, Google presented him as the first result for liberal nutjob).

Fucking Libertarians are/are not inclusive because of the people who consider themselves to be so. If close minded assholes take over a given label, the label is associated with close minded assholes. I’m hoping more and more people come out and say ‘You know, some of the things I think are right are part of the Libertarian party platform, I’m glad that other people feel the same way I do…’.”