Writing is cathartic. I express my thoughts and emotions with my fingers using the keyboard, not using my fists to rearrange someone else's face, even though the thought does prove tempting at times. It's okay to be unhappy when things don't always go your way. There's nothing wrong with getting angry when you feel an injustice has gone unpunished. It's even okay to peacefully protest an grotesque injustice and try to inspire others to motivate necessary change. Remember the TEA Party? However, it's not okay to scream like a jackass at the top of your lungs six inches from the face of someone you don't like. Nor is it okay to hit that person when his or her back is turned, like a coward is often tempted to do. And it's not okay to destroy private property belonging to someone who disagrees with you...in fact, that's criminal behavior called assault, vandalism, theft, and whatever the legal term is for felony destruction of private property. Oh...I guess the technical term would be arson. This is how liberals "disagree" with other people. It's also not okay to stand in the middle of the street forcing traffic to stop and redirect in order to avoid you, while you scream profanity at the people in the car. These people have completely lost their minds. Like a virus, this irrational, out-of-control anger coming from liberals, progressives, radicals, and anarchists has been threatening to spread out of control because the response from rational and reasonable people has been rather calm and understated, which only emboldens these crazy people. In November … [Read more...]
Evolution destroyed by a six-minute video
(Hat tip to Sean and Will for their conversation on Facebook that inspired this article.) The evangelists for evolution make a lot of strange and contradictory statements. I am routinely ridiculed and characterized as some sort of anti-Darwinian nutcase who doesn't understand the basic concepts of evolution theory because I tend to paraphrase what the "experts" have written and said with dripping sarcasm. One of my more vocal critics was asked his opinion about this six-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyTcINLKq4c Prosanta Chakrabarty Sean replied, That's the kind of explanation I would have given. I only have a couple of provisos:(1) I would disagree that there are lots of <<theories>> of evolution. I would say there was one overarching theory with lots of associated hypotheses.(2) I'd disagree that birds are reptiles. I think reptiles are a paraphyletic group, which excludes aves. Other than that, I think it was a good overall summary. Hmmm. Was that video really a good summary? Professor Chakrabarty began his speech with a joke formed as a loaded question frequently attributed to creationists: "If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" And the punchline? "Well, because we're not monkeys. We're fish." The really funny thing was Chakrabarty wasn't joking. According to the theory of evolution, humans are directly related to fish primarily by descent with modification via sexual reproduction, by isolation of a breeding population, over long periods of time. It seemed to me that Professor Chakrabarty was making a number of … [Read more...]
A bargain at any price
Okay, so the people who have followed my blog are probably asking themselves, exactly what will we be getting that we haven't been getting already, that we weren't getting for free? The short answer is: a lot. The slightly longer answer is: now that I'm treating my blog like a business instead of a hobby, I'm going to be posting frequently. Probably not multiple posts every day like I've been doing the past week or so, but almost certainly I'll be writing between four and five posts per week minimum, unless I'm offline from the internet for some reason. I haven't taken a vacation in about ten years (I don't count taking the grandkids to Disney World as "rest and recreation" but it was fun) and have no plans for one in the immediate future. I'm not going to commit to a specific number above one or two blogs per week because I've learned the "art of the deal" from Donald Trump. The secret to a happy customer is to under-commit and over-deliver. Promise less and give them more. Photo by J.E. FitzGerald. Reproduced by permission of J.E. FitzGerald, ©2001. One of the benefits of my new attitude and approach to the blog is that when I learn about something cool, you'll be the first to know. Until about five minutes ago, I'd never heard of a marble statue called "The Veiled Virgin", sculpted by an artist named Giovanni Strazza. My wonderful and talented musical friend from Down Under, Brad Luke, shared a photo of this exquisite masterpiece with me on Facebook. The photo took my breath away. It is one of the most beautiful sculptures I've ever seen...and I became … [Read more...]
Grumpy Bear mode
When I get fired up about something, my passion is often mistaken for anger. Oh, I do get angry sometimes, and that's when I transform from a relatively mild-mannered Southern gentleman into what liberals perceive to be a raving lunatic, or from my own perspective, this mythical creature known The Credible Hulk. The image below is actually the background on my Facebook page. It's true: liberals don't like it when I'm angry, because I am always ready, willing, and able to support my arguments with a barrage of common sense, logic, facts, and solid documentation. I'm the opposite of lazy when it comes to being able to source a justification for anything I might say or write; I'm a little neurotic (maybe O.C.D.) about being able to provide a reason for the things I say and write. You can safely assume that if I make a strong, declarative statement about some current controversy, I'll have an extra tab open in my browser window with my supporting evidence waiting to be offered to the first critic. That's how I lose friends (and sometimes even family) on Facebook, because I'm not willing to compromise with evil. It's not in my DNA. Evil must be defeated. It cannot be mollified, and concessions only give it strength. You've got to go full Conan on evil: you must crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30tyaXv6EI And as far as losing virtual friends on Facebook is concerned, at least there is a bright side. Once upon a time I was a Boy Scout, and I've never forgotten the … [Read more...]
Reprehensible Bob Menendez
In the toxic climate of misandry fomented by the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the only evidence you need to see to illustrate the disgusting hypocrisy of the Democratic Party is Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey. Facebook just popped up a video on screen of that human-pig hybrid creature without warning, and I didn't have a barf bag handy. As that human piece of excrement droned on about Kavanaugh's confirmation coming "by any means necessary" and some nonsense about "get out of jail free cards", I got up and quickly walked away from my laptop, lest I succumb to the temptation to smash that expensive piece of equipment into a million pieces. Despicable Bob Menendez Did I just hear my headphones right? Did those unbelievably hypocritical words really come out of the mouth of that jackass? How can anyone sit in that room and know what I know about Bob Menendez, and not tell him to sit down and shut up before his sexual perversions and corruption became a topic on social media? If you look up the word irony in the dictionary, it will refer you to the word "scumbag" and show you a picture of Bob Menendez. It's bad enough if I think of you as beneath contempt, and difficult to fathom anyone beneath Bob Menendez in terms of sleaze. Let me tell you a little bit about "Bob" that the voters of New Jersey don't seem to mind. Sure, he was given a trial and found not guilty by the jury of corruption charges for taking bribes from Dr. Salomon Melgen, but he was not found innocent of traveling to the Dominican Republic specifically for the purposes of … [Read more...]
