Musings at work

A life of seemingly intolerable tedium, tedium vitae in the truest sense. Faced with these prospects, how could there be any marvel that Marlboro should despair of it, his very humanity.

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An endless, morose tomorrow in wait. Eyes drooping quite literally weary of the world. The long-accumulated yet illusory aedifice of delusions as to life's positive meaning per se tracelessly eradicated by brilliant moments of unnatural, superhuman clarity, every vestige of all things prior now meaningless and disregarded of all consequence.

The end

It's amazing how quickly the pleasant superficialities of one's life can come to an abrupt end: quite possibly my life may suffer a complete reversal.

Godhood.

I am like unto a god in my brilliance, my sheer divinity. I am man, homo sapiens, Robert Loudon. I could best Hercules in wrestling, Dionysus in drinking, and Apollo in eloquence itself. I will wrest the very thunderbolt from Zeus. Juppiter Loudon Optimus Maximus Omnipotens Magniloquens Victor Scotius Americanus Liberalis Splendidus sum eritque semper qui amet quiddam magnum plus quam quidquid alius naturae.

What happened?!

Although I didn't black out, I consumed a rather immodest amount of liquor last night. I went to a tobacconist and bought hookah supplies, nakhla and coals, as well as some cheroots. I also went to Costco but didn't spend anything. I started the night with about sixty dollars but now when I look into my wallet I find a meager seventeen dollars.

Human Action

What could almost certainly have been expected, namely that a disparate style would be encountered, I have found as a matter of course. Ludwig von Mises' style in Human Action is substantially different from von Hayek's. Von Mises is very slow to advance, covering all his bases in minute detail, whereas von Hayek delves straight into the heart of the matter, advancing at a comparatively reckless pace and dealing with crticisms afterwards. I find that I prefer von Hayek's style since I can enjoy the meat of his arguments without first having to endure seemingly endless quibblings and qualifications, necessary though they be. As a matter of taste, I wish that von Mises had rather employed von Hayek to enscribe his ideas.

After a fashion

Coming just now of reading Dave Frank's most recent post, I too feel inclined to share the books that occupy a considerable portion of my intellectual inquiry, and in certain cases simply inquiry.
I am currently reading several books: Human Action by von Mises, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson, Teach Yourself Ancient Greek by Gavin Betts and Alan Henry, and The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott.

Sweet release...

After almost 48 hours without drinking, this horrific ordeal has lately, by a few minutes, come to an end, and the sweet nectar of tequila now soothes my anxious, over-weary nerves. In fact, yesterday I didn't smoke a single cigarette either. My god, the humanity. Needless to say, I bought a carton today.

Crazy coincidence, recurrent and auspicious

The last three days I've incessantly come accross the number 420. Just now, I checked my Yahoo mail and found 420 new messages. At work, thirty or more transactions were for $4.20. Some credit cards charged $42.00. The final safe drop I made today was for $420. I'm going crazy.

Fiat power, again; crazy dreams that hound me

After a sudden torrential rain storm, in the course of whose onset I was forced to extinguish my last hookah coal while trapped in the pool house with my dog and laptop computer, a select group of about five houses, my own included, lost power. This is the second time this year that we've lost power, and I'm only perturbed because it happened on my day off.

Anyway, saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith. My first visceral reaction was ecstasy at the slaughter and sex, which ecstasy was enhanced by virtue of a rather immodest quantity of alcohol. More cerebrally, I was somewhat astounded at the grotesque admixture of genres and its seemingly sado-masochistic implications. I enjoyed the film, but my outlook on films treats them more as spectacle than as art.

Granted that I have been drinking a wee bit, in general, not at the moment since I have work in half an hour, a certain dream has been plaguing my sleep for the last week: I wake feeling a few teeth loose in my mouth, and at my touch three or four fall out of their socket onto my tongue; then I gently examine the rest of my teeth and find them to wiggle at the slightest touch; as I examine my mouth in the bathroom mirror, more teeth fall out; by the time I reach work, I have lost nearly all my teeth so that I can scarcely speak intelligibly.

The German war machine gears up again?

The German war on capitalism.

Also, although I am unsure whether the Second World War was necessary in both occurrence and scale, it surely was not a noble crusade.

Further, we have the case of complicit censorship by American companies with the Chinese government in China. This is something of a moral dilemma: would I make a profit no matter the consequences for others' liberty or would I take a stand for liberty though it be to my own detriment. Perhaps there is no dilemma for the mere presence of some freedoms could prove the catalyst for further liberalization, while I simultaneously would profit myself.

Gin on an empty stomach

Much to my brother's chagrin, yes, I do love the taste of gin. To me, it tastes like soda-pop. Anyway, without having eaten for twenty-four hours, I take delight in the excruciating burning now suffusing my stomach. Gin and orange juice. My half-gallon is rather more depleted than I had thought it would prove in the morning. A wee bit more diminution. Life is good.

Love of Money

Is there anyone who really loves money as an end, seriously? It brings status to be sure, but money is still merely the means in that case. I can only say that I appreciate money for the ability it affords me to satisy certain costly appetites of mine (more precisely, the ability it just has). Not Q, but O. I am an O, and O-ness characterizes the focus of my recent thoughts. White cake is the most delicious.

Shocking if true...

Natural cures for depression, in testing which cures I'm consigned to some long nights.

Drugs and Latin

Read about in Latin the origins of drug names (at the bottom; with the "hashish," I have reason to doubt some of the stated effects):

De nominibus substantiarum psychotropicarum.

De substantiis psychotropicis quamquam parum scio, "coca" puto ex vocabulo quodam Indico esse ductum; fortasse ergo sic, uti stat, erit adhibendum (vocabulum dico, non substantiam).

"Hashish" autem vocabulum est Arabicum; planta quae substantiam psychotropicam gignit, ni fallor, a rerum botanicarum peritis vocatur "Cannabis sativa L." (ergo brevius: "cannabis"); "voluptates" quae ex hac substantia oriuntur sunt maxime variae: mentis evagatio, fauces aridae et in glutiendo labores (dysphagia), oculorum aciei confusio, vomitus, musculorum inconstantia, et inde: ambulandi labor, loquendi difficultas (dysarthria).

Scripsit Volfgangus Jenniges.

In Cuius Potestate?

Malleable

Minerva Victrixne?

Just finished Dr. Murphy's Minerva and I have to say that it's well worth the read. The novel has a drastic flow that moves the reader with depth and breadth of topics and with a quite dynamic plot. The only major beef I had, and this is really rather trivial upon reflection, is with the factual error where, in part II, Macao is said to be a city in Portugal, which city in fact is a Portugese city adjacent to China, a relic of a rather more obscure and distant colonial past. It only proved so glaring due to my interest in Chinese history.

Fear etc.

I just saw the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Frankly, I was disgusted and fascinated at the same time. It explains so much clarity on the personalities heretofore baffling to me of certain people whose acquaintance I have had the pleasure of making. I always had the vague, unformulated idea but could never put my finger on exactly what it was, not that I ever gave the matter any more than passing thought. Now, I feel like I have greater insight into the motivations of a great many who occasionally dabble in such things: a common desire to relentlessly increase the breadth of their experiences, largely in disregard of prevailing standards and occasionally in conscious knowledge of detriment to health.

A Terrible Truth

Apud vatem Catullum.
(64.338-52)

nascetur uobis expers terroris Achilles,
hostibus haud tergo, sed forti pectore notus,
qui persaepe uago uictor certamine cursus
flammea praeuertet celeris uestigia ceruae.
currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi.
non illi quisquam bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello,
periuri Pelopis uastabit tertius heres.
currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi.
illius egregias uirtutes claraque facta
saepe fatebuntur gnatorum in funere matres,
cum incultum cano soluent a uertice crinem,
putridaque infirmis uariabunt pectora palmis.
currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi.

For the uninitiated...

Browsing while somewhat distant from my right mind, I've just discovered the novel Minerva by Dr. Murphy, and it so far reads like a contemporary Rand work. I really like it, the content is enthralling.

Do-gooders do bad

In my own beloved Minnesota, insane policy at work, with dissimulation and immorality for all.

Terrifying

The potential (and probable?) disaster from a flu pandemic.

Murphy on Bush's Social Security Plan

The esteemed Dr. Murphy and the rest of the Mises Economic Blog on His plan.

"Remember that you are human"

For those who have suffered the indignity of witnessing the perennial degradation of Constitutional principles in America, here is a vague, partially inaccurate but still properly cautionary comparison of America's metamorphosis to the Roman Revolution, i.e. the transformative process where absolutism came to replace both practical and, in many cases, nominal republican forms of government. The relevant piece is "The Scourge of Militarism: Rome and America" by Chalmers Johnson and is located about two pages down.

C&C, Caramel and ... Cocaine? Nose Candy is Candy?

Somewhat dated, this article entered my awareness only recently. As if cultural deja vu, cocaine will be a consumer product additive, in Cocamel candy for relaxation.

A very interesting perspective on the ancient Greeks

There are two sides to every story, even one as obscure and subjectified as Greek culture. The relevant post is The Ancient Greeks with something from H.L. Mencken, from a review of volume V of The Cambridge Ancient History in the American Mercury (October 1927).

CR's Beware

As an emerging power, India is yet another threat to be eradicated by means of war as soon as possible, delenda est.

Coked-out Bugs?!

As if to illustrate the bankruptcy of the drug war, those rabid apparatchiks busily stoking the furnace of hatred with junk science, wild schemes, and lies have now fully abandoned even the semblance of reason to pursue their own pipe dream, enlisting insects as drug warriors.

From national review's corner, of all places.

Death of Jesus

How did Jesus die? This post offers some elucidation.

Fiat Power...

After exceptionally severe storms and the subsequent power outage, my house finally has power again, from late Tuesday to about 2:30 Thursday.

vosdka

o doit asimer vodka comme les filsx oismeme

Monetyt!!!!

I ove money, itxs mfuckin greta!! U can fuckin buy shit zna dodo shit. Hellty eyweA .Im makin me som e monety rigtchesht now i.

Another victim, another night, but always drugs...

Latest victim of irrational injustice: Ontario Smith, Minnesota Vikings runningback. I was watching the television news, and found that he had failed his third NFl "strike" of the season and was therefore to be suspended for a season without pay. Even worse than the punitive outrages were the self-righteous condemnations from teammates and reporters. You fuckin pricks, go to hell. I'd say worse, but modesty constrains me. For mr. Smith, at least you have a comfortable financial cushion to fall back on. If these buggers want to get rid of you for a harmless lifestyle choice, let the Vikings loose and the whole godrotting NFL get incinerated on Ontario Smith's smoking roach.

Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagonecologyst is frickin sweet. Trevor, happy birthday, turned me on to the man, and his music is a like Deltron's, sophisticated sci-fi rap.

Knowledge Bears Evil

Due to somewhat simpler and since-rejected concepts in the etymologies of certain words, the more despicable among us will willfully exploit incongruities, (also see the exploitation of Adam Smith later on):

It's worth paying attention to the origin of words. Economics hasn't always been about the accumulation of wealth or the management of the stock market. The word economics derives from the Greek word oikodome, meaning household. In the ancient world, economics was about the ways in which a household was shaped and managed, and how it contributed to the good of the community in which it participated. Today, the needy of our global village outnumber those who have their needs met. We may think of this as important or sad, but we forget that it's also economics.

I remember reading in one of Hayek's books, The Fatal Conceit I think, that he suggests a change of terminology from "economics" to "catallactics" in order that modern thought on the subject be better reflected in the etymological meaning of the subject's name.

Inanity

I despise the worthlessness of political correctness, especially when it attacks basic English. In this case, human (humanus, homo) is merely derived form the Latin equivalent to the general sense of man as meaning mankind, like the Greek anthropos.

McCarthyism at Berkely

An account that really makes Hillsdale seem like a great place.

Stench and Progress

Whatever reactionaries, radical environmentalists, or whoever might say to criticize the advancement of modern society, the sphere of hygiene should certainly be exempted. This relatively newfound habit is definitely an advancement and, let's hope, not a fad. Whatever the merits of classical western civilization, The Stench of Ancient Cities must be omitted.

Degenerate Scotland

No wonder since they're comparatively malnourished.

Demotivators

These posters are pretty funny, good snide humor. I especially love elitism.

Smoke

One of my earliest, most frequent, and most consistently pleasing memories is of the beautiful nebulae of cigarette smoke that inundated my mom's presence. I still love just to watch smoke. It has to be the most elegant substance in everyday reach. Not to say that I don't enjoy the nicotine, but that's really secondary when it comes to smoking.

"I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind—and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.” –Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Addicted to Thinking

That's definitely me. I read this post and instantly identified myself as an addict. I find it true, certainly not a novel thought as curiositas was considered sinful once. Compulsive thinking is often repetitive and truly joyless.

Also, interesting posts on George W. and Jesus and those despised motivational posters.

Minnesota Burning

For those unfamiliar with the great state of Minnesota, aka Minnetopia and the People's Republic of Minnesota, it has a rather large scandinavian heritage and (therefore?) a lengthy tradition of socialism. Even now, in the city of Duluth, self-proclaimed socialist candidates are regularly elected (there are quite a bit of Finns up there though, so no surprise). Anyway, the state has recently been undergoing a noticeable change towards fiscal conservativism especially with the governorship of Tim Pawlenty, certainly not perfect but infinitely better than far too many of his predecessors. Even the Pioneer Press/ Pravda, one of the two major Twin Cities' newspapers, has started to reflect the change (The Star Tribune/ Red Star/ Star and Sickle is beyond hope). I almost choked on my coffee when I read the opinion page, of all places, and found an article from Jacob Sullum of Reason, "I have a beef with compulsory food ads." Also, in addition to the run of the mill leftist hack pieces, I found one that had the honesty to admit, albeit in the antepenultimate paragraph, that Medicare may not be perfect in all respects except for deficient funding.

Wagner and the Rings

Last night, I listened to the Solti recording of Das Rheingold and was astonished at the magnificence and sublimity of song and music. The only regret I now have after listening is that I'll never be able to hear such perfection of musc in person as most of the participants are now deceased. Still, I'm hopeful that some perofrmance at which I might have the honor of presenting will surpass.

Smokin' Like a Nazi

How could I ever have smoked in that barbaric American way? What kind of animal can be reduced to such brutality? The superiority of the perpendicular, vertical fingers struck me on a sudden, after having woken up with a mind-rending headache. Pound a cup of coffee, a ton of snuff, and a clove in quick succession, and you've got yourself a nice little morning boost. Also, I realize that the time dating of my posts is on pacific time, which should be central standard instead. Oh well, here's to being in california right now, chillin' in San Diego with my sister.

Playin 'Ball

I love playin B-ball. I love the grounder. I love the homerun from a good crack of the bat. I love the medial mound. I love the smoother cracks of the bat, but to a lesser degree. I love the delectable variety of sports drinks with which to refresh.

Oxyrhynchus What?

On a personal note, this revelation injects new life into my deliberation on potential careers to pursue, greedy capitalist or academic classicist. The prospect of endless and inconclusive toil over minute fragments and scraps of literature always portended a rather less than enjoyable future in classics, but now the promise of new texts to study makes the field a bit more tantalizing. Of course, a great deal of the previous classical corpus was practically virgin forest, but the newfound legibility of these texts is invigorating. Nonetheless, I still have the expectation and desire for vast sums of money for various reasons and purposes.

This Man Is Brilliant!

I just read A modest proposal to lawyers, journalists, and drug dealers from 5/27/05, and I feel qualified to proclaim this man as a hero of the people and absolutely brilliant and ingenious as well.

Coffee Con Carne

Given certain mild properties of nutmeg, as well as the fact that it's delicious, I recently experimented with it in some coffee. A spoonful or so of nutmeg in the grounds, brew, and you have coffee with a nice little sensory twist. The auditroy sense especially gains a certain something. I'd reccomend anyone try it once in your morning coffee.

JP's Favorite Latin Phrase

Sic transit gloria. If not already persuaded, ask yourself about Lord Kitchener, what comes to mind? Do you think about the hero of the Nile, the man who subdued the Dervishes and liberated Sudan, the man who was an international icon for the British empire and a personal hero for contemporary Britons? Or, if you even recognize the name as signifying anything beyond a WWI datum, do you think of the Uncle Sam prototypical recruitment posters? Maybe you are familiar with the institution under his command in South Africa of the first concentration camps? In Memoriam of a great man, in terms of magnitude of influence there can be a consensus, I offer an article on his death in the North of Scotland, which proved a horrendous blow to the British people of the time.

For simple biographical information, see here.

Perfect Beauty

I must proclaim my faith in the belief that Another Night by the Real McCoy is a perfect song. In the depths of a bout of drunken despair, a single note from this masterpiece and instantly I felt revived into the ranks of the blessed and rejoiced in my life. It holds the meaning and consequent subjective beauty of life. The essential dichotomy of good and evil united within one entity forms the compelling basis of the song. I hear the angelic voice of heaven and the seductive song of satan in alternation. Yet, life is wonderful nonetheless. They both form a single chorus, the form of which is our lives. Yet, as when I read Crime and Punishment, my thoughts are that good and evil is simply a biased formulation of primitive of and civilized. The morality of primitive human organization is inherently different from the morality necessary for civilized organization. Likewise, the two moralities are irreconcilable. But, man is naturally predisposed towards the primitive as more suited to his instinct, but the civilized prevails as a competitive advantage. Thus, men practice civilized morality simultaneously despising it and yearning for the bygone primitive morality so emotionally satisfying. Hence, the song Another Night actually portrays the schism tormenting the civilized man.

The End of the Beginning?

jordan just scared the shit out of me with this news. I despise the totalitarianism of the world, but I'm equally as terrified. The virtual world held the promise of renewed liberty, but no longer.

Work and Politics

Much as I shudder at the repulsive and shameful admission, it must be allowed that doing physical labor tends to magnify my neocon instincts. I can reject it rationally, but my emotional intuitions cannot be denied. God forgive me.

Pure Evil

The English language has a vibrant history that renders it rich and expressive. One legacy of its dynamic history, though, is a quirky system of spelling that only bolsters the language's character. As always, however, the forces of evil will not rest, and so we have the Simplified Spelling Society, only one "s" away from SS. It started with the subjunctive... but, tragic as it is, that at least was not coerced. Let us hope that the government doesn't step in. If the bastion of free expression that is the English language should fall, God keep my native and oh so glorious tongue, I resolve never to read, write, or speak it ever again.

Hips and Longevity

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4606011.stm

Sodomy Causing Conflict

From Herodotus, we have an account of how Peisistratus was deposed for disgracing Megacles' daughter by only practicing sodomy with her (1.61).

A summary:

Pisistratus marries Megacles' daughter, but fears to have children because of the curse on the Alcmaeonids (Megacles' ancestors) and so practices birth control by continually sodomizing Megacles' daughter. The angry Megacles forces Pisitratus into exile in Macedonia, where he spends ten years amassing an army with his sons Hippias and Hipparchus (61). -http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/Hdt/Hdt1.html

The problem is discerning the respective influences of nature and culture in shaping human character, a question that has not been resolved.

Milton Friedman In Favor of Legalization?

For practical policy reasons, but that's a start at least. "I've long been in favor of legalizing all drugs," he says, but not because of the standard libertarian arguments for unrestricted personal freedom. "Look at the factual consequences: The harm done and the corruption created by these laws...the costs are one of the lesser evils." The rest

Murderous Regime, Victims, and POW's

No, I'm not talking about Iran, China, Zimbabwe, or any place else than the United States. The prohibition called the drug war has countless victims who have suffered to varying degrees as a result of government ignorance, arrogance, and ruthless brutality. For all those of a sympathetic bent, I too offer my condolences to the victims. For the dead, requiescant in pace, because you sure as hell had no peace in life in the face of government tyranny. For the POW's rotting in unjust incarceration, you will have freedom.

How Chinese is Chinese History

Despite the nationalistic propganda of millennia of Chinese statism, there may well have been significant Western influence on China from an early date. Also, there's an interesting story about Roman heritage in a certain, obscure Chinese village. Here are some other sites dealing with European influence in China: http://www.geocities.com/solarguard/pagan/mummies.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/
Strange mummies found in Urumchi http://mmac.homestead.com/history.html

Were the Samurai Japanese?

It seems that the samurai class of Japan may not have been of the same race as ordinary Japanese. Also, here's a wacky hypothesis on the relationship between the Basque and the Ainu, related to the above and the theory from the previous post.

Language Conspiracy Theory

Given my fascination with language, I continue to find the articles on this site absolutely delightful to read. It essentially asserts that all modern languages are deliberate fabrications by a conspiratorial body to pretty much keep us down. In fact, there was a primordial people speaking a language akin to the Basques', but they dispersed. There are innumerably more interesting tidbits to tantalize the curious mind.

Crack Poetry

A terribly depressing poem about crack. Breaks my heart that hedonism can be so damaging to the very person who enjoys pleasure, resulting often in anhedonia.

Alan Greenspan Scum?

I must confess a practical ignorance of our esteemed Federal Reserve Chairman. This account is somewhat dim, but I as yet do not know the author's credibility.

Ongoing Progress in Neuroscience

Even if it is fairly well known already, I still think this research is exciting. I love epistemology, and sexual differences in the brain are shaping up to be quite clarifying. It's not necessarily a nature vesrus nurture dichotomy. Nature itself is not a monolithic factor, it consists of several distinct influences. While the exact combintion is yet unknown, it seems likely to prove not to be dichotomous at all.

Dave Frank's Overly Curious Mind

Monsieur le Frank presents himself on occasion to be an ethical analyst of my morality, or some such thing. Well, sorry Dave, but I consider myself henceforth to be your psychoanalyst, and your mind is extremely labrynthine. Whatever could have prompted such a tangent, I have no idea.

Family Tree

Here is the family tree for the Tantalids. Not so difficult after all.

Promise of Interest

After recently exploring the Hillsdale Liberals' page, I find my hand repeatedly striking my forehead for it turns out that I skipped most every class of one of the most "mindnumbingly sweetass" professors at Hillsdale, Dr. Robert Murphy. The fact that I was skipping an intro class is some consolation. The Liberals' page has a link to Murphy's personal page. When I read through some of his articles, I realized that this man is brilliant and something of a polymath as he deals with a whole host of issues aside from economics merely, which phrase of course ne veut pas dire that economics is an isolated subject. Though somewhat vague in its description, his book Chaos Theory promises to be a great read.

House of Pelops

Most fail to realize the extent to which the Greek myths are interconnected, albeit incoherently and contradictorily at times. For example, when in the first semester of freshman English while studying the Odyssey I brought up the relation of Tantalus to the Atreids, i.e. Agamemnon and Menelaus, my professor was unaware and therefore squashed my line of inquiry. Well, I think it's necessary to recognize the rich network that unifies Greek mythology and thereby renders it so compelling. Hence, and read the whole page, http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/pelops.html#Atreus
p.s. If I could figure out how to work this dang blog and upload a pdf, I'd show the family tree.

Lord Curzon as Prototype of Neocon Aristocrats Prenatally Groomed For Rulership

I read a snippet of biographical info on this Lord Curzon here http://www.world-war-1.info/figures/lord-curzon.php
Draw your own conclusions.

Chinese and Communist?!

For that select niche of sophistication which cultivates any and everything not its own, I, a not infrequent member of said group for reasons only surmised by myself in moments of true ecstasy, provide a font of Chinese communist music. I must admit a morbid fascination with most things communist, especially regalia and propaganda. Also, the same admission must be made, although without quite the same degree of morbidity, of my insatiable interest in Chinese culture. The language itself is delightfully captivating, its structure and philosophical implications truly mesmerizing. Anyway, one of the reknowned anthems is fourth from the top, in the second bracket down, mei you gong chan dang jiu mei you xin zhong guo 没有共产党就没有新中国, which of course means without the Chinese communist party there would be no new China. http://www.musictea.com/musicsp/pop/jundang/junge.htm

Illegal Crime

Although several months old, this article still terrifies me, a lover of SoCal: http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
The government itself is eagerly crippling its own ability to enforce the most useful and necessary laws against those who are ex officio criminal in the first place. Maybe it neglects all of their crime because they aren't paying enough taxes to enjoy the dubitable privileges of the police state now afflicting the rest, which police state might actually turn itself to at least some benefit in this case. I'm disgusted with this suicidal mentality. Too many Americans seemingly esteem themselves for self-despisal.

Silent Spring Bullshit? What a Shock

I'm rather undismayed and entirely unsurprised to discover that Silent Spring not only was and is junk science but also proved the impetus for a regression in the condition of much of mankind, http://reason.com/rb/rb061202.shtml

Crack and Coke, Avatars of the Goddess

If you've ever wondered about the origins of crack, I hereby offer aedification http://cocaine.org/, http://thelowendtheory.blogspot.com/2005/04/back-like-cooked-crack-crack-cocaine.html,
and http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch06p2.htm
Turns out there might be a time for crack use. The best quote, "To be sure, modesty about the scope of one's criminal activity is common among defendants dealing with the government."

June Weddings

I find it fascinating that the reason so many weddings take place in June is due largely to the ancient Roamn calendar. Since the month of May was dedicated to remembrance and celebration of the dead, weddings were improper and ill-starred. Wherefore, the month of June marks the end of a month-long moratorium on marriage and thus signifies the beginning of a rush on propitious nuptials.

For anyone interested in snuff et al. nose-related, vide infra

I reccomend Samuel Gawith and Wilsons of Sharrow.

Also, for anyone interested in modern snuff paraphernalia, there are some bullets here.

An interesting link explicating the allusions of The Incredibles to Ayn Rand personally

http://solohq.com/Articles/Reed/Objectivist_Morality_Anime.shtml

I have arrived

I have come, and I hope all the rest of my time here will be as enjoyable. I love alcohol, especially tequila and vodka.

Adventus

Adventus sum voloque omne tempus relinquum fore tantum delectum.