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Official Comic of WorldCon
In case you didn't know it, Brewster Rockit is having a contest, and is sort of the official SF comic for worldcon...and I like today's strip.
More later, breakfast is calling my name.
Before breakfast:
Things that ought to be over now:
Extreme. Extreme this and that are menaces to society. Super-sizing is bad enough, but Extreme is .... actively hazardous...Extreme Latte, Extreme Hot Potato Chips, Extreme Chicken Wings, Extreme SUVs, Extreme Religion, Extreme Politics, Extreme Consumption, Extreme Sex ... really, if sex with one person is good is there evidence that sex with 17 at the same time is better?
Reality This That and the Other. Really. Reality is lying in wait for all of us, do we need more *now*...
Girl singers with enhanced... computer enhanced even .... really, really big show-off, super in your face, obviously unnatural...
voices who wail. They aren't doing good opera, they aren't doing good yodel, and I do complain about it when attacked by it in stores, just as I complain about political radio stations (Rush!) being played in retail locations, or Howard Stern. Tired of it. See extreme above. Let's listen to guitar music.
Multi-acre lawn-mowing. For crying out loud. We *do* have global warming and we *do* have three dollar plus a sucking gallon gas prices and why are people needing to have a golf-course look around their mini-mansions, and pour chem-grass all over the world?
Plant butterfly gardens, and hummingbird trees (following my own advice here, our lawn is about 1/3 the size it was 14 years ago, having been replaced by flowers and trees.
Republican push-poll phone calls. Talk about extreme. "Do you support the President's Automatically Patriotic War against Terror and everything else he does or do you favor the Democrat's weak-kneed call for an early pull-out of brave American troops from places that need our intervention in order to look more middle class?" Well duh. Talk about extreme...
(Actually, push polls in general annoy me. It seems the only ones I've been getting lately have been of the "are you a TAP (True American Patriot) or are you against us" kind...).
Really. Why is the coffee gone?
More later, breakfast is calling my name.
Before breakfast:
Things that ought to be over now:
Extreme. Extreme this and that are menaces to society. Super-sizing is bad enough, but Extreme is .... actively hazardous...Extreme Latte, Extreme Hot Potato Chips, Extreme Chicken Wings, Extreme SUVs, Extreme Religion, Extreme Politics, Extreme Consumption, Extreme Sex ... really, if sex with one person is good is there evidence that sex with 17 at the same time is better?
Reality This That and the Other. Really. Reality is lying in wait for all of us, do we need more *now*...
Girl singers with enhanced... computer enhanced even .... really, really big show-off, super in your face, obviously unnatural...
voices who wail. They aren't doing good opera, they aren't doing good yodel, and I do complain about it when attacked by it in stores, just as I complain about political radio stations (Rush!) being played in retail locations, or Howard Stern. Tired of it. See extreme above. Let's listen to guitar music.
Multi-acre lawn-mowing. For crying out loud. We *do* have global warming and we *do* have three dollar plus a sucking gallon gas prices and why are people needing to have a golf-course look around their mini-mansions, and pour chem-grass all over the world?
Plant butterfly gardens, and hummingbird trees (following my own advice here, our lawn is about 1/3 the size it was 14 years ago, having been replaced by flowers and trees.
Republican push-poll phone calls. Talk about extreme. "Do you support the President's Automatically Patriotic War against Terror and everything else he does or do you favor the Democrat's weak-kneed call for an early pull-out of brave American troops from places that need our intervention in order to look more middle class?" Well duh. Talk about extreme...
(Actually, push polls in general annoy me. It seems the only ones I've been getting lately have been of the "are you a TAP (True American Patriot) or are you against us" kind...).
Really. Why is the coffee gone?
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Tell me this, what good is a lawn that you can't sit down on because it's always been sprayed? That you can't run on because that would make bare spots? That require constant watering in drought?
I don't know either. The grass in our yard grows greener next to our neighbours lawn - recently resodded - replacing all of the lovely blue flowers that grew there in the spring entirely by the way. I suspect they keep siccing lawn companies on us (to send pamphlets or 'graded reports' on the condition of our yard) in the hope we will be shamed into conforming. Not going to work. I know what I like - and my sons like that I'm not Nazi on mowing either.
Personally, I consider myself to be a True American Patriot - I don't approve of taxation w/o representation, I don't approve of wars of aggression or impressment or enforced quartering of military troops - whether it's done to us or by us. I very much disapprove of the erosion of constitutional freedoms or the creation of a dictator state by the manipulation of manufactured fears and creation of a sense of danger.
I consider Bush's government to be anti-American and anti-Christian in act and philosophy. But ... ymmv.
Beannachd leibh, ---Caitrin a Masaitiusadh
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I also consider myself to be a True American Patriot who has a strong ethical belief in the importance of Constitutional freedoms and who understands that the greatest risk to democracy in this country is the current administration.