Tuesday, March 25, 2014

What a wonderful world...



The Russians are coming the Russians are coming the Russians are… oh shizzle, they’re here!  Leave it to an ex-KGB agent to pine for the good ol’ days of the Cold War by rekindling old hatreds and fears.  It seems that we in the West need a reminder of how the world sucked back then and Putin is happy to oblige.  Perestroika this, bitches!  Bin-Laden’s feeding the fishes and his cronies have gone to ground.  Let’s leave the left-handed-ass-wipers to their own goat spoiling devices, we’ve got neo-Bolsheviks to contend with. 

What if we just pull a Saigon Shuffle and Huey the hell out of the Boneyard of the Misbegotten?  Who would miss us, besides the women and children and private contractors?  There’s a paranoid bi-polar poobah in charge of the place and who has, on more than one occasion, not been able to keep appointments with ambassadors and other dignitaries due to an inability to keep his ducks together long enough to harangue his guests over not understanding his needs.

Sorry if I seem insensitive to the plight of paranoid bi-polar poobahs but well, I’m sick of the ancillary effects of job creators in the guise of nation builders dry-stroking the daylights out of us taxpayers.  Like marionettes, our elected officials dance cheek by jowl with the monied interests of the military whilst sending our young men and women to far off lands where we have little business other than having a place to wring the bugs out of our latest war toys.   

To that end, the Greenies some time ago started making little squeaky noises about environmental degradation and unnatural acts in the deserts of the Western U.S., once the home of bombing ranges, nuclear blast testing, Native Americans and that sort of thing.  I mean, dang, it’s just a damn desert!  Better we work out the spread pattern of bomblets dropped via sub launched cruise missiles over the New Jersey Pine Barrens?  I gather not.  But still… we are talking about Jersey.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Honestly, I'm not sure about blogging.  The world is already a precarious place in which to ply one's proclivities.  Knowing this, the internet is like a Pandora's Box blown open for anyone able to stab a button or finger swipe a smart phone.  And I like it!  Everyone has an opinion like they have a nose.  Some are big and beautiful while others, not so much.  These are the days of EVERYONE putting their two cents in whether it makes any sense or not.

If you think about the 140 character limit imposed on Twitter, after following it for ten minutes, you'll probably rejoice in that limitation!  I know I do.  Personally, I don't give two shits about what goes on in the Twitter-verse. My time is too precious.  But then, if it could make me money, I'd hire someone to do it for me.  But the newsies grouse that it hasn't turned a profit yet.  Even though the guys who started it are pretty well-off now.  How is that?  It's all about perception.  Face it, we're all drawn to shiny sparkly things.  We can't help it.  It's part and parcel to how we're coded.  Flight or fight stuff.  We in the West have hailed it as a liberator of thought, and as it turns out, thoughtlessness too.  Humanity in all it's "wired" forms manifests there.  Big beautiful noses, pierced and otherwise.

So my question is this, how can an otherwise educated populace deal substantively with it's own shortcomings?  Twitter?  Facebook?  Yelp?

Why not?