I’m not going to pretend that I actually understand M-theory, or even that I understand what understanding it would entail, but being that M-theory is an elaboration on Superstring theory, which is an elaboration on String theory, which was an effort to reconcile Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, there is little surprise that it’s comprehension escapes the remaining part of my brain that the zombies didn’t already eat. Incidentally, zombies violate the rules of thermodynamics, so either they don’t exist or they remain in a state of quantum superposition after the collapse of the probability wave; either way, they sadly linger as only creatures of our imagination.
According to Wikipedia, the source of all my wisdom, the M used to sort of stand for Membrane when M-theory first arose, but latter evolved to just M when it became clear that the concept of a membrane was only partially apt for the theoretical structure that the comprehensive theory proposed to use as an analog for reality. Nonetheless, M-theory is simply summed up, and I quote, as “asserting that strings are really 1-dimensional slices of a 2-dimensional membrane vibrating in 11-dimensional space.” Everything we know or can know results from this fundamental and underlying truth.
I was going to go on to P-branes and “lose ends” and such, but you can read Wikipedia just as well as I can. The thing that I find remarkable about these theoretical constructs in physics is that, however bizarre they are, they only survive the fatally selective marketplace of ideas by being mathematically consistent with what is observed. It has long been argued amongst quantum mechanics toiling in the chalk-infused filth of their subterranean lairs as to whether there really is such a physical thing as a “probability wave” or whether it is just an analog to an unobservable physical reality. There was a major insurrection in Quantum society over this very notion resulting in the emergence of “schools” of quantum thought. Are there really 2-dimensional membranes vibrating in 11-dimensional space? Hell if I know, but we are so far from really understanding even the most fundamental of realities, how can we claim knowledge of good and evil, being and nothingness, Starsky and Hutch? Like, you know, the Universe; it’s here; it’s queer; get used to it.
I have to stay away from politics as much as possible because my cerebral artery walls are weakening. Anybody who reads this blog is both bored and already knows what I think about current American politics anyway, but what about the Germans? Frau Merkel, the Chancellor of the Reich, has declared that “Germany's attempts to build a multicultural society have utterly failed.” Well, so did their attempt to build a monocultural society. What’s a Volk to do? Before you get all “who are you to judge the German people?” on me, I did live there for three years 30 some odd years ago, and I wasn’t inebriated the whole time. My observation then was that the “Guest Workers”, mostly Turks and Italians with a component of Balkan and Pan-Slav minorities, were more or less relegated to the economic and cultural fringes. As one would expect, some of this was the result of clannishness on the part of the immigrants, but I never got the sense that they were welcomed in the same way I was as a blond, blue-eyed American soldier. Perhaps this was because the Germans knew I would eventually leave, but I’m not sure that a multicultural society can be created just by dumping disparate cultures into the same physical space and expecting assimilation or some other form of equilibrium to establish itself. In the case of Germany, the principle problem is that most of their immigrants have been exclusively pursuing economic opportunity and have been viewed by the broader society as mainly inputs into an economic equation. Capitalistic views on labor combined with an innate sense of cultural superiority may not in this case be the best recipe for success. Successful multicultural societies are based upon mutual respect, acceptance and tolerance, and the ability to sometimes agree to disagree. However, tolerance without respect is just paternalism and respect without acceptance is only fear. Nations need to ask themselves some very serious questions and give themselves some honest answers before they open their borders in pursuit of cheap labor, shouldn’t they?
Finally, Juan Williams got fired from NPR because he was doing his part-time gig on Fox and told Bill O’Reilly that people in “Muslim” dress on airplanes “made him nervous”. He used the reasoning that people who were committed enough to their religion to dress in accordance with its tenets might be committed enough to engage in more drastic forms of religious fervor. NPR was correct to fire Mr. Williams, but not because of his blatant bigotry; rather, because he is a dumbass. For the record, the Quran limits its directives on clothing to suggestions that it be “modest” and a little technical advice on what parts of the body need to be covered to achieve modesty. Hillary Clinton routinely meets the requirements of Islamic modesty in her dress, if only accidentally, as do most American women over 50, or who are at church in the South. American male business dress is one-hundred percent consistent with the Islamic dress code, as is, ironically, most Rap inspired male dress. The point here is that when Juan Williams identifies something as “Muslim dress”, he is really referring to a cultural or ethnic manifestation. The dress is Arab or perhaps “South Asian”, but it is not Islamic.
Being a dumbass on Fox News is no crime, since Fox News is specifically directed at dumbasses and they clearly have a right to pander to their target market. NPR, on the other hand, has some responsibility for objectivity and factual correctness, both of which Mr. Williams is apparently lacking. I believe we live in a country now where ignorance and failures of reason are seen as “fair and balanced” and studied and researched presentations of unpleasant fact are nothing more than Liberal propaganda. Pointing out factual error is now censorship and criticism of hate is itself hatefulness; and don’t forget, reality is, perhaps, nothing more than 1-dimensional slices of a 2-dimensional membrane vibrating in 11-dimensional space. Sigh.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Columbus Day 2010
I have never worked at a bank, or lived in the Northeast, so Columbus Day is just some print on a calendar to me, but Al Capone used to celebrate it enthusiastically, I hear. In October of 1492, the intrepid explorer Cristoforo Colombo made landfall somewhere in what is now the Bahamas, only days ahead of starvation, dehydration and mutiny. The naively friendly Arawaks hosted Columbus and his men for a few weeks before he moved on to Cuba and Hispaniola. The ultimate result was that the Europeans bartered smallpox for syphilis and the Native Americans were largely doomed. I don’t think America and Europe have yet come to terms with the enormity of the devastation brought by European colonization and America’s manifest destiny, but I feel relatively certain that if the victims of this historical inevitability had been white, there would be a few more memorials for the certainly tens of millions of people who eventually died as a direct result of the voyages of Columbus and his successors.
Elsewhere, Carl Palidino, the Republican/Nativist Party candidate for Governor of New York recently decried the “brainwashing” of children to accept homosexuality as being “equally valid”. There are a few interesting subtexts to Mr. Palidino’s lamentation, the first being the use of the term “brainwashing”. Apparently Mr. Palidino feels that if I attempt to pass my value system to my children, they are being brainwashed; unless, perhaps, he happens to share those values, which is admittedly unlikely. Maybe Mr. Palidino was only objecting to societal institutions, such as schools, engaging in the practice of promoting open-mindedness about sexual identity issues, in which case he should also bemoan the schools being used as a platform for promoting other values, but, here again, the litmus test appears to be whether he personally agrees with what is being taught. I can respect any honestly held belief as a matter of conscience, but no one should have the power decide which ideas have official sanction and which don’t. Mr. Palidino is a scary fellow. He might even be a Douchebag. Anyway, allowing for the possibility that human society is complex and that people are diverse and everything is not black and white is not brainwashing where I come from; it’s common sense.
And before I absent-mindedly wander off to some other subject, why is the question of the “legitimacy” of homosexuality in America not seen and discussed as the purely religious issue that it is. If a state legislature somewhere was debating a law about whether you could eat pork or work on the Sabbath, nobody would have any doubt that it was simply an attempt to impose religious orthodoxy on people who had already consciously rejected it. Of course, in some states that might make it more popular, but the anti-Gay forces in America are nothing more than Old Testament literalists trying to force their beliefs on the nation though the power of government. How can this be ok? I realize it’s nothing new; just ask anybody in Georgia wanting to buy a case of beer on Sunday, but these “social conservatives” are simply the Spanish Inquisition in sheep’s clothing. I’m not saying that they don’t truly believe that they are doing what’s right; on the contrary, that’s what makes them so dangerous, but as a nation we have already crossed this bridge and the issue is settled; we are guided by Constitutional principles, not partisan religious ones.
I got some hostile feedback from my immediately previous blog where it turned out all the weekly Douchebags were somehow associated with the Republican Party. It was suggested to me that I was not fairly addressing the objectionability of certain persons on the more Liberal end of the political spectrum. I accept this criticism as completely valid and will attempt to do better in the future. The Obama Administration in general is really making me question my anti-senile old man from Arizona vote in 2008. I’m too tired to provide a complete litany of failings, but they all pretty much fall into the category of being too scared of the Republicans and too desirous of keeping the support of Wall Street, which may amount to about the same thing. We voted for a revolution and got a surrender. I generally leave the Democrats alone in my attempts at sarcastic critique, mostly because they are so helpless. The Republicans are a much more serious threat to liberty than any Democratic regime could ever be, simply and solely because they have a greater power of organization and party loyalty. I have repeated this mantra incessantly; I fear the Republicans and pity the Democrats and generally respect neither, and the Tea Party patriots don’t even get an honorable mention, except in the Weekly Douchebag Roundup.
The Mid-Term elections are just about three weeks away. Polling data, as usual, is contradictory and ever-changing. It does seem clear that there is something of a tendency towards replacing the incompetent with the insane, but we will have to await election night to see if this is sustained. Americans usually talk a lot of nonsense and then go with the familiar, especially in politics, but this may be a new, post-apocalyptical political paradigm where all bets are off. People may just be angry enough with the status quo to actually put people like Sharon Angle in the Senate, for example, but the problem is that it’s sending a message that carries a six year contract with it. I am truly at a loss to identify a path to resolution of this nation’s problems; other than the one President Obama tricked me with, which involved ending useless war, investing in education and research, reforming health insurance, treating all citizens with respect and taking real measures to ensure LONG-TERM, sustainable physical solvency. Apparently none of that stuff is important anymore. Obama may find himself on the Douchebag list if he doesn’t straighten up.
And finally, this is Breast Cancer Awareness month in the United States. Each year somewhere around 40,000 women die of breast cancer in the United States. While the incidence of breast cancer has risen slightly since 1975, the death rate has fallen significantly, especially for Caucasian women. This would tend to indicate that medical progress is being made in fighting the disease. Science, not superstition, prayer or voodoo, is prevailing, albeit agonizingly slowly, against our bad genes and bad habits, and it is likely that if we put the same effort and resources into preserving life that we put into destroying it, many, many more diseases could be cured and prevented. Since 1971, the American Cancer Society has funded almost $390 million in breast cancer research. Just for reference, the United States is spending approximately the same amount in 2010 alone for building the Stryker Light Armored Vehicle, which I guess we need to fight lightly armored enemies. God knows we are making enough of them.
My mother died from breast cancer on December 2, 1972. She had a radical mastectomy, months of debilitating radiation therapy, and further surgery to remove lymph nodes where the cancer had spread. She spent the last weeks of her life in a morphine induced stupor and at the end barely recognized her own children, which may have been a blessing for all of us. My mother once washed my older brother’s mouth out with soap for using the “N” word, in Georgia, in the 1960’s. She would unwisely pick up hitchhikers because she said they might be “unfortunates”; she couldn’t stand Richard Nixon. I still miss her and I understand the sorrow and anger of those who are prematurely deprived of their loved ones, by whatever cause. This is why I despise the bringers of death and destruction, whatever flag they may wave. Stop the wars; spend the money on destroying misery instead and quit cynically manipulating the ignorant and the frightened and the foolish. Grow up, damn you. My mother has a bar of soap with your name on it.
Elsewhere, Carl Palidino, the Republican/Nativist Party candidate for Governor of New York recently decried the “brainwashing” of children to accept homosexuality as being “equally valid”. There are a few interesting subtexts to Mr. Palidino’s lamentation, the first being the use of the term “brainwashing”. Apparently Mr. Palidino feels that if I attempt to pass my value system to my children, they are being brainwashed; unless, perhaps, he happens to share those values, which is admittedly unlikely. Maybe Mr. Palidino was only objecting to societal institutions, such as schools, engaging in the practice of promoting open-mindedness about sexual identity issues, in which case he should also bemoan the schools being used as a platform for promoting other values, but, here again, the litmus test appears to be whether he personally agrees with what is being taught. I can respect any honestly held belief as a matter of conscience, but no one should have the power decide which ideas have official sanction and which don’t. Mr. Palidino is a scary fellow. He might even be a Douchebag. Anyway, allowing for the possibility that human society is complex and that people are diverse and everything is not black and white is not brainwashing where I come from; it’s common sense.
And before I absent-mindedly wander off to some other subject, why is the question of the “legitimacy” of homosexuality in America not seen and discussed as the purely religious issue that it is. If a state legislature somewhere was debating a law about whether you could eat pork or work on the Sabbath, nobody would have any doubt that it was simply an attempt to impose religious orthodoxy on people who had already consciously rejected it. Of course, in some states that might make it more popular, but the anti-Gay forces in America are nothing more than Old Testament literalists trying to force their beliefs on the nation though the power of government. How can this be ok? I realize it’s nothing new; just ask anybody in Georgia wanting to buy a case of beer on Sunday, but these “social conservatives” are simply the Spanish Inquisition in sheep’s clothing. I’m not saying that they don’t truly believe that they are doing what’s right; on the contrary, that’s what makes them so dangerous, but as a nation we have already crossed this bridge and the issue is settled; we are guided by Constitutional principles, not partisan religious ones.
I got some hostile feedback from my immediately previous blog where it turned out all the weekly Douchebags were somehow associated with the Republican Party. It was suggested to me that I was not fairly addressing the objectionability of certain persons on the more Liberal end of the political spectrum. I accept this criticism as completely valid and will attempt to do better in the future. The Obama Administration in general is really making me question my anti-senile old man from Arizona vote in 2008. I’m too tired to provide a complete litany of failings, but they all pretty much fall into the category of being too scared of the Republicans and too desirous of keeping the support of Wall Street, which may amount to about the same thing. We voted for a revolution and got a surrender. I generally leave the Democrats alone in my attempts at sarcastic critique, mostly because they are so helpless. The Republicans are a much more serious threat to liberty than any Democratic regime could ever be, simply and solely because they have a greater power of organization and party loyalty. I have repeated this mantra incessantly; I fear the Republicans and pity the Democrats and generally respect neither, and the Tea Party patriots don’t even get an honorable mention, except in the Weekly Douchebag Roundup.
The Mid-Term elections are just about three weeks away. Polling data, as usual, is contradictory and ever-changing. It does seem clear that there is something of a tendency towards replacing the incompetent with the insane, but we will have to await election night to see if this is sustained. Americans usually talk a lot of nonsense and then go with the familiar, especially in politics, but this may be a new, post-apocalyptical political paradigm where all bets are off. People may just be angry enough with the status quo to actually put people like Sharon Angle in the Senate, for example, but the problem is that it’s sending a message that carries a six year contract with it. I am truly at a loss to identify a path to resolution of this nation’s problems; other than the one President Obama tricked me with, which involved ending useless war, investing in education and research, reforming health insurance, treating all citizens with respect and taking real measures to ensure LONG-TERM, sustainable physical solvency. Apparently none of that stuff is important anymore. Obama may find himself on the Douchebag list if he doesn’t straighten up.
And finally, this is Breast Cancer Awareness month in the United States. Each year somewhere around 40,000 women die of breast cancer in the United States. While the incidence of breast cancer has risen slightly since 1975, the death rate has fallen significantly, especially for Caucasian women. This would tend to indicate that medical progress is being made in fighting the disease. Science, not superstition, prayer or voodoo, is prevailing, albeit agonizingly slowly, against our bad genes and bad habits, and it is likely that if we put the same effort and resources into preserving life that we put into destroying it, many, many more diseases could be cured and prevented. Since 1971, the American Cancer Society has funded almost $390 million in breast cancer research. Just for reference, the United States is spending approximately the same amount in 2010 alone for building the Stryker Light Armored Vehicle, which I guess we need to fight lightly armored enemies. God knows we are making enough of them.
My mother died from breast cancer on December 2, 1972. She had a radical mastectomy, months of debilitating radiation therapy, and further surgery to remove lymph nodes where the cancer had spread. She spent the last weeks of her life in a morphine induced stupor and at the end barely recognized her own children, which may have been a blessing for all of us. My mother once washed my older brother’s mouth out with soap for using the “N” word, in Georgia, in the 1960’s. She would unwisely pick up hitchhikers because she said they might be “unfortunates”; she couldn’t stand Richard Nixon. I still miss her and I understand the sorrow and anger of those who are prematurely deprived of their loved ones, by whatever cause. This is why I despise the bringers of death and destruction, whatever flag they may wave. Stop the wars; spend the money on destroying misery instead and quit cynically manipulating the ignorant and the frightened and the foolish. Grow up, damn you. My mother has a bar of soap with your name on it.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Weekly Douchebag Roundup
I read somewhere that Christine O’Donnell is a witch, or something. I seem to remember some tests that can be conducted for witchery (or witchiness, or witchism), but I think they involve dunking a candidate in water and observing their buoyancy. This sounds very scientific, so I’m not sure Christine would approve. I do recall that Sarah Palin has a buddy in Africa who is a certified witch hunter, so maybe he could lend a hand. It is very important that we keep witches under control, since they may turn people into newts, and we don’t need any more Newts in America.
Speaking of witches, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for the Governorship of California, has been accused of employing at least one illegal immigrant as domestic help in the past, but I am sure it’s all just a misunderstanding, what with the language barrier and such. After all, the woman, Nicky Diaz, only worked for Ms. Whitman for nine or ten years, not really enough time to get to know anybody’s individual circumstances. Ms. Whitman has been very clear about her concerns about illegal immigration, so this misunderstanding is quite the irony and has fueled substantial criticism from her Leftist opponents. What the Socialists have failed to understand, however, is that the rules don’t apply to rich people. That’s why they spend all that time getting rich.
The same type of criticism has been lodged against Lou Dobbs, the eloquent and completely objective former CNN contributor. Dobbs, best known for his humility and self-effacing humor, has been accused by no less than “The Nation” magazine, the official publication of the American Socialist/ Marxist Freedom Haters Party, of knowingly hiring workers not legally eligible to work in the United States. The blasphemous expose’ even went so far as to imply that Dobbs is a cheap ass who took advantage of his employees by virtue of their illegal status. Whatever happened to American respect for thrift? Why would you pay any more than you have to? It’s really sad that people can’t see that the rules don’t apply to rich people. That’s why we should elect some and avoid all those messy rule compliance issues.
A recent poll by the Associated Press finds that Caucasian Americans without college educations support Republican candidates for Congress about 2 to 1 over Democratic candidates. I shouldn’t have to explain how this makes complete sense, but just for the record, education is defined as “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.” I could go on, but what would be the point? The thing that I find interesting about this general subject area is that it appears that intellectual elitism is widely disparaged in America, but economic elitism is not simply tolerated, but expected and endorsed. If I possess greater knowledge, I will be resented, but if I possess greater wealth, I will be envied and admired. Too bad I’m a poor genius, along with being relatively unattractive and having a borderline personality disorder.
A recent poll by the Public Relations Research Institute indicates that 2/3rds of Americans believe the minimum wage should be raised significantly. Presumably few of these people are Caucasians with no college education, a potential beneficiary of such an action. The arguments against raising the minimum wage are compelling. Principle among them is the idea that it will cost businesses too much and they will have to reduce their campaign contributions to the Republican Party. Joe Miller, a Republican candidate for Senate in Alaska says that the minimum wage is unconstitutional, and he is a Yale educated lawyer. By his same extraordinary reasoning, which I am too indifferent to summarize here, child labor laws are also unconstitutional, as are environmental regulations, civil rights legislation and the Federal income tax, all things that have admittedly been ruining America since our pinnacle of 19th Century greatness.
At least there are some sane people in America. Take John Reed, for example. Mr. Reed is the pastor of the church attended by one Sharon Angle, Republican candidate for Senator in Nevada. Mr. Reed recently spoke out against Ms. Angle’s opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Part of his criticism was that Mr. Reid’s church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was a “cult”. Thank God someone finally had the courage to say what we have all been thinking. How absurd is it to believe that Jesus Christ died by crucifixion, descended into Hell for three days, rose from the dead, and THEN flew over to North America to live and teach among the Native Americans? What kind of a simpleton would believe such a thing? Mr. Reed should be applauded for pointing out the clear difference between his completely legitimate and entirely rational religious enterprise and the brainwashed minions of Mormonism.
Anybody ever heard of Jim DeMint? He’s a Senator from South Carolina; one of the great progressive states of THESE United States. He doesn’t believe in separation of church and state or abortion in cases of rape or incest. He believes we need to make English the official language of the country and that all illegal immigrants should be expelled so that they can return to their country of origin to begin the process of legally applying for the right to immigrate to the Confederate States of America. Whoops. I wonder if Meg Whitman and Lou Dobbs know about this. Anyway, Senator DeMint has written a book, Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism (Fidelis, Nashville, 2009). I haven’t read it, but I can tell it’s cool by its title. Stopping socialism; yep, that’s America’s most pressing issue right now.
At this point, two very comforting things occur to me. In five billion years, the sun will exhaust its supply of hydrogen and begin fusing helium into beryllium, raising its surface temperature substantially, and thereby expanding massively, and engulf the inner planets, which will be completely incinerated. The other thing is that I’m playing golf next Friday. Don’t worry; be happy.
Speaking of witches, Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for the Governorship of California, has been accused of employing at least one illegal immigrant as domestic help in the past, but I am sure it’s all just a misunderstanding, what with the language barrier and such. After all, the woman, Nicky Diaz, only worked for Ms. Whitman for nine or ten years, not really enough time to get to know anybody’s individual circumstances. Ms. Whitman has been very clear about her concerns about illegal immigration, so this misunderstanding is quite the irony and has fueled substantial criticism from her Leftist opponents. What the Socialists have failed to understand, however, is that the rules don’t apply to rich people. That’s why they spend all that time getting rich.
The same type of criticism has been lodged against Lou Dobbs, the eloquent and completely objective former CNN contributor. Dobbs, best known for his humility and self-effacing humor, has been accused by no less than “The Nation” magazine, the official publication of the American Socialist/ Marxist Freedom Haters Party, of knowingly hiring workers not legally eligible to work in the United States. The blasphemous expose’ even went so far as to imply that Dobbs is a cheap ass who took advantage of his employees by virtue of their illegal status. Whatever happened to American respect for thrift? Why would you pay any more than you have to? It’s really sad that people can’t see that the rules don’t apply to rich people. That’s why we should elect some and avoid all those messy rule compliance issues.
A recent poll by the Associated Press finds that Caucasian Americans without college educations support Republican candidates for Congress about 2 to 1 over Democratic candidates. I shouldn’t have to explain how this makes complete sense, but just for the record, education is defined as “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.” I could go on, but what would be the point? The thing that I find interesting about this general subject area is that it appears that intellectual elitism is widely disparaged in America, but economic elitism is not simply tolerated, but expected and endorsed. If I possess greater knowledge, I will be resented, but if I possess greater wealth, I will be envied and admired. Too bad I’m a poor genius, along with being relatively unattractive and having a borderline personality disorder.
A recent poll by the Public Relations Research Institute indicates that 2/3rds of Americans believe the minimum wage should be raised significantly. Presumably few of these people are Caucasians with no college education, a potential beneficiary of such an action. The arguments against raising the minimum wage are compelling. Principle among them is the idea that it will cost businesses too much and they will have to reduce their campaign contributions to the Republican Party. Joe Miller, a Republican candidate for Senate in Alaska says that the minimum wage is unconstitutional, and he is a Yale educated lawyer. By his same extraordinary reasoning, which I am too indifferent to summarize here, child labor laws are also unconstitutional, as are environmental regulations, civil rights legislation and the Federal income tax, all things that have admittedly been ruining America since our pinnacle of 19th Century greatness.
At least there are some sane people in America. Take John Reed, for example. Mr. Reed is the pastor of the church attended by one Sharon Angle, Republican candidate for Senator in Nevada. Mr. Reed recently spoke out against Ms. Angle’s opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Part of his criticism was that Mr. Reid’s church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was a “cult”. Thank God someone finally had the courage to say what we have all been thinking. How absurd is it to believe that Jesus Christ died by crucifixion, descended into Hell for three days, rose from the dead, and THEN flew over to North America to live and teach among the Native Americans? What kind of a simpleton would believe such a thing? Mr. Reed should be applauded for pointing out the clear difference between his completely legitimate and entirely rational religious enterprise and the brainwashed minions of Mormonism.
Anybody ever heard of Jim DeMint? He’s a Senator from South Carolina; one of the great progressive states of THESE United States. He doesn’t believe in separation of church and state or abortion in cases of rape or incest. He believes we need to make English the official language of the country and that all illegal immigrants should be expelled so that they can return to their country of origin to begin the process of legally applying for the right to immigrate to the Confederate States of America. Whoops. I wonder if Meg Whitman and Lou Dobbs know about this. Anyway, Senator DeMint has written a book, Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism (Fidelis, Nashville, 2009). I haven’t read it, but I can tell it’s cool by its title. Stopping socialism; yep, that’s America’s most pressing issue right now.
At this point, two very comforting things occur to me. In five billion years, the sun will exhaust its supply of hydrogen and begin fusing helium into beryllium, raising its surface temperature substantially, and thereby expanding massively, and engulf the inner planets, which will be completely incinerated. The other thing is that I’m playing golf next Friday. Don’t worry; be happy.
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