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July 26, 2004:
A Grand Day:
I had a grand day today. On the tube, I saw Ken Lay in handcuffs.
One at a time. One at a time. Maybe we'll eventually get them
all. We have always have cheats, thieves, crooks, and thugs of
one form or another. We cannot change that in this generation.
What we can do is mitigate their effect by vigorously punishing
them when we apprehend them. I still believe the punishment for
a crime should be proportional to the cost of recover from it.
If that were the case, Martha would get a very light punishment
and Ken would never get out of prison. Ken claims innocence on
the grounds of ignorance. I will argue ignorance in the position
he held constitutes misfeasance. If that is not, it should be
a serious crime. He had a position of trust and he betrayed that
trust. That's all!
Kerry:
I don't like your advertising. Tell me about your plans. Tel
me about your goals. Don't tell me what you did. I don't give
a damn what you did or that you were a war hero. That's old news.
I want to know what you are going to do. Don't tell me you have
a plan. Tell me what it is. Don't tell me you have goals. Tell
me what they are.
The Sky is Falling Again:
We have unspecific credible intelligence that there is a big
crack in the sky. We don't know exactly where it is or what it
looks like, but it is definitely, possibly there. It may fall
somewhere on some political convention sometime, so we got watch
out. Everyone should go about their business as usual, but keep
your eye out for falling pieces of sky and report anything suspicious.
In the meantime George wants to suspend elections for an unspecified
time. I did not know when it would manifest or what the rational
would be, but I predicted this move over a year ago. Hitler got
away with it. I don't think George will manage it even with a
republican Congress and Supreme Court.
The Madden Syndrome:
When Madden was one of the better, more knowledgeable, football
commentators someone gave him a clicker and he went nuts with
it. He would jerk a scene back and forth shouting see, see, look,
look, there, there, boom, boom! Now I have noticed that all TV
weather reporters have caught a similar disease. They show the
motion of the weather overlaid on a map greatly accelerated in
time. Then they jerk it back and forth ad infinitum . I wonder
what the point is, because it is not clear to me what it is they
are showing me. Perhaps the weatherman gets some kind of stimulation
from doing that to the weather.
Information:
I have tried, but I just cannot stomach it. Why oh why do the
government jokesters insist on calling information intelligence?
Doesn't anyone know the difference? Intelligence used to be a
function not a datum. It was the function or faculty of thought
and reason, the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. Why did
those dull minded idiots have to destroy the meaning of another
perfectly excellent word?
Allies and Friends:
I have seen our government misunderstand these concepts ever
since I could read. America has very few friends in the family
of nations. We occasionally have allies. This only means we have
some shared short term goals for a short time. That is all it
means. We make a horrible mistake when we mistake a short term
ally for a friend and arm them. It is almost a truism that those
arms will be used against us. Doesn't anyone remember when we
armed Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran? Don't you get it?
I think we can safely help to arm England, Canada, Australia,
and possibly German. We should never arm anyone else.
Reckless Driving:
In its insane drive for market share, General Motors is now showing
TV ads with young fools playing Frisbee from moving cars on public
streets. Don't they know that some stupid kids will immediately
try that? Don't they care? That has to be the most irresponsible
ad I have ever seen. It is criminal irresponsibility! It will
cause accidents and deaths.
One in Ten:
They tell us that one in ten people in South Africa has AIDS.
If that doesn't terrify you it should. Take a look at the next
ten people you see. If you were in South Africa, one of them
would be dying. Do you think it can't happen here? So far we
have no effective weapons against it. In a few more years, terrorism
could become trivial by comparison if we don't give it our attention.
We need to bring our best minds to bear on that before it rolls
over us.
Same Sex Marriage:
The Republicans are making a massive effort to deflect the attention
of the American voters away from Iraq, leadership, and the economy
into the trivial issue of same sex marriage. The frightening
thing is, the rabble being what they are, the effort is likely
to succeed. The Democrats must face the reality that the average
American voter is too easy to con. They only know what they are
seeing in front of them right now. Their minds, through disuse,
have shrunk to where they cannot entertain more than one notion
at a time. When they are conned into arguing about same sex marriage,
they will forget everything else. They have already forgotten
what happened last week. They will forget the kids who died for
George's vendetta. They will even forget that their friends and
family members are out of work. This is the reality of the American
voter. They are trivial minded and easily conned into perceiving
trivial things as important.
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