On Weapons

Setting limits or requiring registration or licensure is not "punishment". It is simply saying in a now very populated and complex society, having access to something very dangerous means we set some requirements or limits. That is not punishment. It simply means we live in a world with other people and some of us are stupid, incompetent, irrational or just plain dangerous. I don't want people having access to certain things, as my experience has taught me many people are just too stupid or irrational to have access to a car, antibiotics, pets and herbicides or legal alcohol. Why would I want the same people, who often delusionally believe in an afterlife and a nonexistent 2000 yr old legendary god,  not to have limits placed upon the weapons they can possess?

Things hopefully seen in the new year

1: Finally, we rid ourselves of Ted Nugent. He is drowned in an actual physical tub of stupidity; the collected and mashed brains of 100 tea party people.
2: A debate between Chuck Norris and a Bonobo for English language instruction at a community college. Chuck Norris is disqualified for not passing the TOEFL; the “Test of English As Foreign Language”. He is referred to the Strom Thurmond Institute for non-English speaking Americans remedial instruction program.
3: Mitch McConnell is replaced by a 100 year old Galapagos Tortoise. No one notices the difference.
4: Glenn Beck disappears; it is discovered the aliens who planted him found their attempt to infect the planet with collective insanity and stupidity a failure. However, the “Rush” and “Ted” implants have been modestly succesful.
5: All former hairband singers wearing cowboy hats and bandanas to cover their balding pate's are forced to remove them in front of troops of laughing japanese schoolgirls.

Stories we tell ourselves

Things you think about in the middle of the morning:
Americans and fake images.
Marion Morrison, a.k.a., John Wayne, never served in the military. Ever. He didn't enlist in WWII because his career was taking off.
Clinton Eastwood Jr. was never a cop. Ever. He never walked a beat. He has been an actor since his 20's. In other words, he knows absolutely nothing about being a cop or ordinary life.

So why admire these people? They did or have done nothing for the world other than perform in fairly tales where they played something they're not. At least I knew as a child Bugs Bunny was a cartoon .