I don’t care what anybody says.

Patricia Michaels said her cousin was an idiot for dumping me and that’s the only thing in the world that matters.

Who are some (dare we say Public) Americans that you like? They can’t all be dead, right?

I like everyone, almost. Having snacks and talking culture, TexMexicana, and anecdotes with George W would be a blast^†, for example. A really likeable, friendly man. Just because I think his presidency was disastrous and I wouldn’t endorse him for anything more powerful than dog catcher doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like him. That is obviously not quite what you mean though. I had this conversation a few days ago and was pressed: Well, then, who on Earth shares your politics?

You don’t have to be Tom Paine / To be my girl. You just have to be honest and willing to indulge in self-reflection and the possibility of self-improvement from said examination turning up bad data. 90% of Americans would agree with me on nearly every single point of politics, if they could accept that some of the things they think are true actually bring about the opposite of what they want. Nearly no one wants suffering or poverty or disease or violence for their neighbors. Only about 10% are willing to understand and accept that a little bit is just the cost of the doing business, it doesn’t mean one doesn’t care, it means it cannot ever be erased completely and that trying to bring that little bit down to zero is, in light of all evidence going on hundreds of years, exactly what ensures it becomes well fed, breeds, expands, and starts to claim 10 times its natural habitat.

Needed to update to say that the 80% or so who agree with me about the desired ends but not the means have an incredibly simple fact to learn that for some reason is nearly impossible for some to absorb: You cannot force the world to be good, or even better. Introducing force toward that end is guaranteed to achieve the opposite.

Politics draws exactly the wrong kind of personality and the nature of the game means even the “good” folks who make it in—this definitely includes cops among those with power over others—tend to end up acting lousy; see SPE. Only a dozen or so that I know in my lifetime I think belong there. The country has millions of engineers, cooks, pilots, janitors, scientists, students, nurses, clerks, etc^‡ who I think are damn swell persons without anything more in particular to learn about the game and would make wonderful friends or acquaintances. There is a long term problem with the fact of power’s self-organizing trait and this other attitude of be good in your sphere and live and let live. We’re just seeing it become completely unashamed as well.

Too big to fail has a corollary: Too small to succeed.

• □ Eh, not really… It’s powerful, fun, and I like it.
• □ Of course it sucks, it’s not Python, you know!
• □ No maybes about it, Perl totally sucks.

Because it would have been nice if someone had told me that Jim Beam has the aftertaste of soap.

Fuck you, Google. Fuck you, America. You all let me down; always; all of you.

H-1B visas don’t seem so silly all of the sudden.

The site was never actually down. I just pulled the top page. Have it back. What good it’ll do ya’.

I admit it. My buttons are circled in neon lime and are bigger than Natalie Portman’s nipples.

Still.

Today some emo twat on FB called Ernest Miller dead *and* crap for dialog. ¿That shit?

And to back up his point he presented, as an alternative, a modern author whose critically acclaimed best-seller has a title which apes The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.

Y’all know I’d enjoy prison, yeah? Get some fucking writing done.

• Isn’t it time you settled?
• You can’t hit snooze on your biological clock forever.
• You don’t have to answer every question in your profile truthfully … he didn’t!
• You’re not getting any younger, you know.

You ever see that Wire show? It’s not bullshit like CSI. It’s like real life. It’s like how shit goes down.

White guy in suit taking a break between sales’ calls

Sorry for the live tests but better than dead tests.

What?

I don’t like pot as I think I’ve gone to great lengths to establish. I’m not trying to protect myself or present a false front and it’s not that I don’t like things. Lord no. I will use canned air on the empty bottle of hydrocodone to get the last dust. I will lick the underside of that cowpie smooth before I let a microgram of psilocybin bearing fungus escape back to the Earth. And they don’t call me the fifth for my love of bourbon but some enterprising biographer will make it funny someday.

I just don’t like marijuana. Not my cup of green tea.

Which is strange because I wrote a love song to Mary Jane recently. I like the lyrics pretty well but I know I’ll never record it and probably never perform it since the music for it is too close to another song I am going to keep and play.

So, it’s yours. Attribution only Creative Commons license.

Just got a lot less comfortable being a tax protestor I suppose.

Most of you would rather read about a woman getting raped than see a woman open-carry a firearm.

GOOGLE HAS IT.

To paraphrase one of the masters: Promise something. Kill me right away if I start to browse on April first.

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:15 AM, ___________________ wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Currently the dev team does not have an easy access to a Sybase ASE
> server (properly installing and configuring one is a massive bitch).

Gendered language, man. I know you didn't mean it as an insult to anyone, but it costs us literally nothing to use better words[*] and avoid splash damage.

Apologies for the derail!

[*] namely, that installing Sybase is a fucking pain in the ass

FOOTNOTE. LIKE A BOSS.

All it would take to fix the other issue is a national 30mph speed limit cap. I think it’s a great idea. I don’t know why you insist another million Americans die for no reason. Oh, yeah, it’s called the motherfucking cost of doing business. High speed limits save more than they cost. Most all freedom does.

Kind of a surprise to see Britney Spears on the cover of Rolling Stone these days. Good for her. I wonder why she got breast reduction surgery though.

Thanks a lot for making my 5 year-old cry—and me the bad guy—when I declined to dig up our recently deceased cat to reverse-electrocute last night. A+ messaging there, asshole.

Hey Sedition,

In your honest opinion, do you think America is headed for fiery bloody doom or do we have a fighting chance to make it through this century?

You neglect option C: with a whimper.

…and I had unfettered and unaudited access to the full customer database, all email, refunds, gift-certificates, catalog records, celebrities’ addresses and shopping lists, and chargebacks. I think I can be trusted with some dead guy’s X-ray.

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 08:53:15 -0700
Subject: on your left-leaning, liberal, education-centric politics

If power corrupts wouldn’t you have to agree that an inept, borderline retarded, governance would be superior to a cagey, well-organized, skilled one?

You know who plays Strats?

Wife beaters, that’s who.

Via.

Clear a form with the reset button.

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($){
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     $(this).closest("form")
            .find("input")
            .not(":button, :submit, :reset, :hidden")
            .val("")
            .removeAttr("checked")
            .removeAttr("selected");
     return false;
  });
});
</script>

Needs citation… I cannot remember where I picked most/all of this up. HURR.

Modernized… maybe. Haven’t tested yet.

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($){
  $("input[type=reset]").click(function(){
     $(this).closest("form")
            .find("input")
            .not(":button, :submit, :reset, :hidden")
            .val("")
            .prop("checked",false)
            .prop("selected",false)
            .prop("defaultValue","");
     return false;
  });
});
</script>

Needs citation… I cannot remember where I picked most/all of this up. HURR.