At 45 when you have the pleasure of getting your first prostate exam you can kind of feel the crooked bony finger of the old Grim Reaper caressing your behind. Death and food - we're nervous, let's eat. We've developed weird cultural formalae for dealing with the inevitable. You'll be driving along with your friend and pass San Giannini's Restaurant and he goes "we ate there." "Oh, what was the occasion?" "My sister got hit by a Budweiser truck." Dunno man, I'm in mourning right now and don't need to go to some fancy Italian restaurant but that's just me. Went to a wake once with my Mom and we're sitting there and she whispers to me "this is macabre" and it is. Worked in a library many years back, the interlibrary loan department and one of the more popular books was, I kid you not, Mortuary Science. I've been meaning to do a blog for some time now on Weird Careers like you're some guy who works at the local animal shelter and part of your job is euthanizing perfectly healthy dogs and cats. Now I can't judge but how do you go home at night and like yourself? You work in a slaughterhouse and day in and day out the cows are hung upside down and you slit their throats. Later on you have sex with your girl but it's existential sex, some bleak black and white passionless thing and there's some angst eating away at your soul and she can sense it. You're a fuckin' monster but there are lesser careers you could have chosen like cleaning up in the porno booths after a long hard day of a bunch of lonely men jacking off to bad porno loops. Ya got your bleach, your spackle bucket and you drop the quarters in and stir everything up with that big pole they give you. At least you didn't kill anybody though.
Judge in California just killed Prop 8, you know the ban on gay marriage there. I don't lobby for it, I don't lobby against it. It's not my thing but I do think we reserve the right as a society to be tolerant but mildly anti-gay. A week ago my NYC government station, Ch. 25 here ran a whole evening's worth of gay programming and you can take this stuff in small doses but my overall reaction was why don't they just put on some cooking show instead? Ever since I can remember my bowels down through the years have been, shall we say irregular? (Dannon - Activia). God bless 'em but I don't know how they do this stuff day in and day out. The occasion when I'm even ready for a butt plug roughly coincides with the whole lunar eclipse cycle. Friend and I hiked up Mt. Spitzenberg in Peekskill last winter and somebody told him "that's a notorious gay hangout" like you go up there and expect to see a bunch of Mad Max biker dudes with spiked collars and nipple hooks brutalizing each other. Probably more and more states are gonna go with the gay marriage with friendly activist judges enabling the whole process and I don't see that we can do a whole lot about it. Things are just too gay lately but hey they're citizens right? ain't sneaking over The Fence like some others but it's like when you're out with your buddies at the Palisades Mall, you all don't have girlfriends and you begin to feel like a roving fag pack so why don't you just go to the rest area on 684 and get it over with?
The colonoscopy is old Mr. Death getting gay with you, he's sexually harassing you now and it's a topic I look forward to blogging about in a few years or so. There are other things to be concerned about like I'm just worried about the next workplace psycho getting ready to rock. There really is no game plan in place, no self-defense scenarios to work with (when was the last time you even had a meeting about this stuff?), it's just Ortiz comes to work a little upset today and Katie Couric is talking about you at 6:30 in the evening.
Sex, Food, Death -- whatever you want to talk about today.
Wanna good read about the food issue? Stroll over to my blog and read the most recent post.
ReplyDelete"There are other things to be concerned about like I'm just worried about the next workplace psycho getting ready to rock."
The company I work for, as I presume is the case with most companies, does not permit guns in the workplace. Now, I work at a lawfirm wherein one of our practice areas is family law (divorces, custody disputes, etc.). Some of the parties in these matters are most definitely a few slices short of a loaf. You're spot on Z that there is no safeguard in place preventing one of these kooks to have a beef with an attorney here and head on up to the 48th floor with their nutty intentions.
This much I do know, if something like that ever were to happen, I'd make a huge stink about the fact that I, as a legal permit holder, am barred from bringing a handgun into the workplace to defend myself when the firm itself wasn't capable of doing so.
You know I have alot of thoughts from time to time that I choose not to publish. You can call them rough-hewn feelings about things unmolded by other things like political correctness and one of those thoughts is this - we've turned into a pansy nation incapable of defending ourselves. Happened down at VA Tech with Cho, one pyscho against a group of people who humbly go to their deaths. When I was a kid growing up I was big on self-defense books, still have some of them and since bosses are so unpopular these days maybe we can help them out ya know?
ReplyDeleteI'm sayin'....now go read that response from Senator Klobuchar over at my blog.
ReplyDeleteAs far as guns at a workplace; EVEN THE POLICE are required to lock their weapons in their cars when they come on the campus for a non-emergency situation. The rules are probably different because I work for a state agency.
ReplyDeleteAnd as for gay marriage: so far, I have not found that gay people getting married has threatened, dismantled, or otherwise harmed my marriage or the marriage of any other straight couple I know. I haven't found society eroding at the edges or anarchy breaking out because of it, and I haven't seen any sacrifices of small children and helpless animals taking place in public places because of it.
My feelings on it all is that all that hype is just nonsense designed to scare people into some sort of moralistic self-righteousness. Gay folks wanting to be in committed relationships aren't a threat to America. Bigoted religious fanatics are.
Last time I addressed this issue I said the opposition to gay marriage isn't necessarily predicated on logic but codifying our cultural preferences into law. I'm a federalist here and while I may disagree if a state wants to legalize gay marriage so be it. The problem comes in as usual when judges have the final say and legislate their own social and moral preferences which in effect vetoes the will of the people. Want gay folks to marry then persuade your state legislature.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of the CT shooter Omar Thornton he belonged to a local gun club. Too many conservatives act like the 2nd Amendment means gimme my gun. Having said that and I don't know yet if it would have applied in this case given the logistics of the situation but I think if you're going to die anyway if possible as a group you have to go down fighting instead of being statistics on the evening news. This needs to be studied.
ReplyDelete'The will of the people' does not necessarily make something right.
ReplyDeleteOverturning segregation laws and putting civil rights in place were, and in some places still are mighty unpopular. That doesn't mean that segregation, slavery, et al were right. It means that the people wanted something that was wrong.
There are times when this happens, and it's up to people with more rational minds to act rationally, and make sure that everyone is protected equally under the law, even if some people don't want everyone protected that way.
The Conservative Belief = While America has some flaws, still we are proud of her, since we believe that the American system and American values are the best systems of governance yet created.
ReplyDeleteProgressive Belief = America is an imperialist bully that seeks to destroy non-white people, whether within or outside of America. The believe that her power must be controlled at all costs. there are many wakening up can tell you all there are as many if not twice as many people still asleep. I try to spread the word to those informed but when i mention certain names in the progressive movement people are still in the dark. A year ago we were saying hardcore dems/libs now we realize in reality these people are progressives.
This is a vicious movement many associate themselves with not realizing where it is rooted and its true dark side. As we see today, these people are dangerous, truly dangerous. I do not trust anyone of them. If you vote for anyone with a (D) next to their name you are voting for a destructive socialist takeover of America.
PERIOD.
Saty: "There are times when this happens and it's up to people with more rational minds to act rationally."
ReplyDeleteBINGO Saty which is EXACTLY how the Elites see themselves.
Someone has to step up and be rational. Otherwise, we'd never have got past Jim Crow. This is the time when people who can compartmentalize come into their own; otherwise, everyone's thinking emotionally and based on their own whatever, and not on cold hard facts.
ReplyDeleteDespite American rhetoric, the masses are not ALWAYS right. And sometimes the popular decision isn't the right one.
& that's where your judges come in. Thank you for explaining liberalism.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, you said "activist judge". Funny how the applying the constitution to everyone is somehow being an activist...Those crazy activist judges who decided the constitution applied to slaves and then women...We need judges who only use the Bible for their rulings and forget about all that crazy liberal ranting you find in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution...They didn't know what they were doing when they wrote that stuff.
ReplyDeleteThomas Jefferson and the Founders believed in God but they were Masons. Masons believe that no matter what your personal God it's all good hence we got religious liberty. The way I was taught at high school was we have 3 co-equal branches of the government. The judiciary is not the most powerful just a co-equal branch of government so I think we have to get back to that.
ReplyDeleteJim Crow was a Democrat, wasn't he?
ReplyDelete& we all remember the late Robert Byrd's history.
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