No buildings in this one, but ice.…
Scott Adams, of Dilbert Fame, had for quite some time now been endorsing Hillary for President.> As most of you know, I had been endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, for my personal safety, because I live in California. It isn’t safe to be a Trump supporter where I live. And it’s bad for business too. But that haschanged [http://blog.dilbert.com/post/150919416661/why-i-switched-my-endorsement-from-clinton-to] . Lets look into the reasons. First, he flat out admits he doesn’t know enough ab…
During the relatively short – lived show “Rocket City Rednecks” – Travis Taylor explained why their philosophy was “safety third”. To wit, if safety is your first concern, they you won’t do anything fun, and second, that the expression “safety first” is so overused that people simply filter it out. In those lines, it’s worth also watching Mike Rowe at one of the few TED talks worth a damn – especially where he relates being on an Alaskan crab boat in a storm. But what brings me here today is s…
OK – so due to the interview between Scott Adams and Stefan Molyneux, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, about habits, patterns of thought, free will, and tools to reprogram ourselves. So now – government. The constitution, the original document as written, is a system. A tool. Like all tools, it is morally neutral, and it is actually the Bill of Rights that provides moral boundaries, or guiding principles to it, while the earlier Declaration in a way provides aspirational inspiration. Even in…
This song is a darkly funny ghost story, and has, to me, one of the most grim and funny lines in music – which is high praise given the hilarious satire that Weird Al Yankovic can bring forth. The song tells the story of a Mercenary named Roland, hired to fight in the Congo war. Eventually, he’s toogood, and the CIA decides they want him dead, having one of his teammates knock him off. Roland’s ghost searches throughout the continent of Africa, looking for his murderer, and finds him: > Rolan…