[ life:revisited 2010 + 1 ]

Yep, lots of lemons right now. Time to catch up on some fucking.

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Sorry for the tasteless title but the story that backed this disturbing image made me want to throw up in my mouth.  Just for some reality perspective...there are 22.4 million people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, 12.65% percent of the United States is at or below the poverty line, Greece is 300 billion euros in debt, prostitution is only legal in one state and Santa ain't real....but somehow this fucking cat has a neurosurgeon, bio medical engineer and a full staff of veterinarians so it can compete with Col. Steve Austin.  For the love of Christ at what point in the history of man are we clearly going to get our heads out of our asses and act like we aren't going to be extinct in the next century....quite honestly we'd probably be doing the planet a favor!  P.S. this story made headlines on MSNBC and was the direct result of this animals inability to get out of the way of a Combine Harvester. 


P.S.S...the next time anyone is interested in blowing over 5K on some pussy, I wished they'd give a call and we can head out to the Ranch!

That's right bitch, read one. I need to. I feel if I watch too much tv, play too much WoW, or hang out on the interwebz too much, I feel like my insides are slowly pickling with collective stupidity that seems to plague commercial society. I need to really get the drive or discipline to start reading more again. The last good book I read, I was so enthralled by it, I am still trying to walk over to my desk, pick up the following book, and open it. That is how unmotivated I am. 


Most times, you get home from work, and you don't even want to look at another damn computer or piece of technology again for another 10 hours, but what do we do? We hop on Digg, WoW, HuffingtonPost, RedTube, etc.. and continue to bathe in the cool azure light of our LCD screens. I am not above this, in fact I am worst at it, since I will just stare at forums and emails all day, thinking they will morph into something magical, like some type of Bill Gates Unicorn or something. 


I would like to say that after I wrote this drivel, and sent an email saying I have posted on this blog (because I am a closet attention whore), that after I hit Enter, I got up, made an Earl Grey tea, and began reading some tome of knowledge while smoking a pipe.


Give you one guess what I did.

Its the weekend, got some buddies coming over to drink and WoW, and MacGyver is killing mother fuckers with his mind.

Shit's about to get REAL.

Its comical really, the more you think about a thing, the more you can draw similarities from inanimate or external objects that are metaphors for your own life. Take this picture of the earth. Crust, mantle and core. Sometimes I feel like my skin is the crust and my muscles and organs the mantle, keeping the core from ripping to the surface in a volcanic apocalypse.

I used to have a horrible temper. I wouldn't jump right into violence, but it usually wasn't far behind, especially if alcohol or some other diversion was around. But, as you get older, maybe not wiser;just more tired, these outbursts are more easily contained. I have been thinking about this as of late, of how I can take things (idiots harassing me, people being generally barbaric and completely ignorant everywhere I look) and not go supernova, it has to be apathy.

The realization of current events. Just knowing that things aren't going to change, people are just completely off kilter. Those harsh realizations are part of true adulthood. But I think its also as you get older, you stop trying to change that which cannot be changed. You start to ignore the things that bother you. The nagging and retarded co-workers and clients, the spousal insanity that all marriages harbor in spades, watching the news, reading news on the web, seeing how far the human race has fallen into decadence and ignorance. These things, just a few years ago, would place me on a bar stool with a small group around me, listening to me rant about how we have brought about our own demise, and possibly all of our legacy as a species will vanish like mist burning off the morning sea.

Now, for reasons I can't explain, there is a flip. I will begin down that road, and something will distract me. My wife, my dog, some retarded text from a friend, a funny cat picture, etc.. When that happens, the feeling doesn't go away, it just feels....less important. Like it just moves to the background, and vanishes back into the depths of my thoughts. I guess I should be thankful...

But I'm not sure I am.

Just a brief release on the Arizona Immigration Law trifling du jour.  The Mexican gov't has issued the following statement: the law “violates inalienable human rights protected by international legal provisions and the U.S. Constitution” — sent officials to meet with U.S. groups challenging the law to coordinate “protection and consular assistance” and to provide legal representation for Mexicans in the state, the Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed. It said Mexico would defend the rights of any Mexican nationals in Arizona, “regardless of their immigration status.”   So let me get this straight, for years now Mexico has been flooding the south west, well lets be honest the entire damn country to levels that require spanish as a second national language without even a hint at repayments, negotiations for healthcare support but now that a law in one state is put in place to require a "citizen" (and I use that term loosely) to present identification at an officers request they are chiming in with support for their nationals???  I wonder if I could get away with shit like that here in Canada.  Time NAFTA is given a second look and the Minutemen get federal funding.