Happy 4th of July

I think Anti-Flag said it best.

Late Night Ramblings.

Well, it's 3:20 in the morning and I can't sleep. I haven't posted anything here in a while so I figured I'd let anyone who's still reading know that I'm not dead.

I don't know why I've been having trouble posting here lately, I guess I didn't think I had anything interesting to say. There's not much in the news I can really comment on that hasn't been said far better by others. I've been trying to write some poems and short stories and I have ideas but I haven't been able to motivate myself to write anything down. The same with making music. I have a few song ideas but I just haven't had the motivation to do anything with them.

I've had a lot of trouble just getting up and doing things lately. In fact I've just been feeling really down. Not really depressed, more like ennui.

Maybe it's because I just turned 21 a couple months and I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. I don't think I'm entirely happy with the idea of growing older. It's kind of strange to only be 21 and be depressed about your age. But there's nothing I can do about aging. I really need to think harder about what I'm going to do when I finish college next year.

I think perhaps I should use this blog to announce projects and ideas. There may not be anyone interested but I think if I put it out there it might motivate me to set deadlines and actually get things done.

Well, now that I've bored you with all this I think I'll try to get to sleep.

Holy World Theology, Batman!

(Hat tip to Cork over at Skeptical Eye)

Uterus Puppies!

Outside of a church in my town there's a big sign that says "Embryos Are Babies!". OK, not too unusual for a conservative church, but right next to it there's a picture of a newborn baby.

OK, they do know that newborn babies look nothing like embryos don't they? They look like this. But having that next to the sign wouldn't give the people who pass by much empathy. They need to have an actual baby there with a, "Please, oh please don't abort me!" look on it's face.

They should take a tip from PETA. Not too long ago they figured out that people can't get behind banning fish sandwiches because fish are "slithery and slimy" and just not cute at all. So they came up with this adorable little campaign called sea kittens. Where they have a flash game with fish drawn with cute little anime-esque eyes and you can dress them up in clothes and wigs and all these accessories. Awww, isn't it just precious? And they're hoping this'll get people to stop eating fish sticks.

The pro-life people should adopt a campaign like this. They can make a site where you can dress up first term fetuses and call it "Uterus Puppies". And they can talk about how abortion hurts the poor little uterus puppies and put them on their signs. It would also make them look less creepy than the signs with bloody, dead fetuses on them. I'm totally going to sell them this idea.

"Uterus Puppies" is my intellectual property by the way. Steal it and the copyright ninjas will come to you while you're sleeping and rape you in the ass.

So, I Turn 21 Today

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

A political post

So, I've been hearing a lot about the Constitution a lot lately. Mostly due to the tea party protests yesterday, and my university having a "First Amendment Day" today.

Regarding the first, Jeremy said it better than I ever could. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people attending these things wouldn't give a shit about Obama's policies if they were being enacted by a Republican. The mainstream conservatives are just pissed that they're out of power right now. The people on the Right who condemned the Ron Paul types during the election are now cuddling up to them. Oh, the irony.

And of course, I've had to hear for the past week about how freedom of speech comes from the First Amendment. Nonsense. Rights do not come from an old piece of paper. The constitution is utterly meaningless as Lysander Spooner showed. Plus it's pretty clear that the government doesn't give half a damn about the Constitution. It practically started violating it at day one. As soon as the Constitution gets up and starts beating up Obama and the assholes in the Congress, I'll start buying that it protects my rights.

Bleeeh...

This comic pretty much sums up how I feel these days.

Straight is the New Gay.

Surreal Killa, you'll probably really like this one.

Just venting.

I hope gas goes back up to three dollars a gallon. I hope it goes up to ten dollars a gallon. Maybe then the idiots who think it's funny to yell and throw things as they pass by the cyclists on the road will shut up.

Ok, it doesn't happen very often. But it always happens to me when I'm tired, riding home from work and in no mood to deal with that shit. I wish I could mount a machine gun on my bike to deal with these douche bags.

My state legalizes gay marriage.

HERE

About goddamn time.

The Most Evil Corporations

A good article at SomethingAwful.

As an advocate of the free market I think it's necessary to point out the evils of corporatism as much as as the evils of socialism.

Stop whining about the AIG bonuses.