March 29th 2012 CHEERS and JEERS!

JEERS to the ongoing saber rattling against Iran. The latest:

• The latest accusations of Iran breaking UN resolutions come from Russia. Nonetheless, the Russians are more concerned about the implications for global trade should war break out.


• Has Obama's hard-line rhetoric on Iran put him in a bind? Yathink?


• Via Fox News comes word that John Bolton is shilling for the Likudniks again.


• Israel appears to be using Azerbaijan as a staging area ... for F-15s .. and for punk rock. More of the latter wouldn't be bad.

JEERS to the ongoing Afghanistan fiasco. Apparently, we can't trust our own allies not to attack us while we're sleeping.

Let's combine this little factoid with a few others, shall we? We got Bin Laden. The government we erected to replace the Taliban has hundreds of women in jail for "moral crimes," such as running away from their abusive husbands, and is thus little better than the Taliban themselves. The question bears repeating. Why are we still there?

CHEERS to Linda from Oklahoma who asks:

Why do lawmakers make it harder and harder to get an abortion, even in the cases where the mother will die, but easier and easier to get a gun? Do they only care about a life before it is born?

Why don't gun buyers have to follow the same rules women are forced to follow? Wait 48 hours after applying. View on ultrasound of a body with a bullet in it. Listen to the heartbeat of someone as they die of a gunshot wound. Get a lecture from a surgeon on what it is like to operate on a gunshot wound. After all that, if a person still wants a gun, he or she can buy one. Why should buying a gun be any easier than having an abortion?

Exactly, Linda. If gun buyers don't have to go through that condescending bullshit, why should women? (And by that same virtue: if women shouldn't have to go through that condescending bullshit, why should gun buyers?)

JEERS to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose indictment on charges of tax fraud is said to be "immanent." I bet she looks just dashing in prison orange!

Feh to the $540 million lottery jackpot. Sure, anyone could win if they buy a ticket .. but the odds are over one hundred million to one, which basically makes your lottery spending into a voluntary tax. If it helps, that money is going to support public schools and the like.

And yes, if I won, I'd keep my job. For a while. For the insurance. And the LOLs. And to ground my magickal practice. And because I'd go mad without real-world obligations. But, I'd also pay off the mortgage and buy a Tesla Roadster.

March 29th 2012 CHEERS and JEERS!

JEERS to the ongoing saber rattling against Iran. The latest:

• The latest accusations of Iran breaking UN resolutions come from Russia. Nonetheless, the Russians are more concerned about the implications for global trade should war break out.


• Has Obama's hard-line rhetoric on Iran put him in a bind? Yathink?


• Via Fox News comes word that John Bolton is shilling for the Likudniks again.


• Israel appears to be using Azerbaijan as a staging area ... for F-15s .. and for punk rock. More of the latter wouldn't be bad.

JEERS to the ongoing Afghanistan fiasco. Apparently, we can't trust our own allies not to attack us while we're sleeping.

Let's combine this little factoid with a few others, shall we? We got Bin Laden. The government we erected to replace the Taliban has hundreds of women in jail for "moral crimes," such as running away from their abusive husbands, and is thus little better than the Taliban themselves. The question bears repeating. Why are we still there?

CHEERS to Linda from Oklahoma who asks:

Why do lawmakers make it harder and harder to get an abortion, even in the cases where the mother will die, but easier and easier to get a gun? Do they only care about a life before it is born?

Why don't gun buyers have to follow the same rules women are forced to follow? Wait 48 hours after applying. View on ultrasound of a body with a bullet in it. Listen to the heartbeat of someone as they die of a gunshot wound. Get a lecture from a surgeon on what it is like to operate on a gunshot wound. After all that, if a person still wants a gun, he or she can buy one. Why should buying a gun be any easier than having an abortion?

Exactly, Linda. If gun buyers don't have to go through that condescending bullshit, why should women? (And by that same virtue: if women shouldn't have to go through that condescending bullshit, why should gun buyers?)

JEERS to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose indictment on charges of tax fraud is said to be "immanent." I bet she looks just dashing in prison orange!

Feh to the $540 million lottery jackpot. Sure, anyone could win if they buy a ticket .. but the odds are over one hundred million to one, which basically makes your lottery spending into a voluntary tax. If it helps, that money is going to support public schools and the like.

And yes, if I won, I'd keep my job. For a while. For the insurance. And the LOLs. And to ground my magickal practice. And because I'd go mad without real-world obligations. But, I'd also pay off the mortgage and buy a Tesla Roadster.