Pity the poor Pentagon. You can have too much of a good thing.
The War Pigs in northern Virginia have been so successful at blowing up innocent women and children around the world that they are running out of bombs.
Evening all. I don’t know if it’s true, but there seem to be more shades of green than any other colour.
Anthony Bourdain hung himself today in Paris, France. This tragedy has brought the issue of suicide back into the mainstream, where it will be quickly forgotten again, probably by tomorrow.
A new report shows that the suicide rate has climbed nearly 30% in the last 20 years.
Some really boring BS where nothing will happen:
DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee Meeting live stream
https://www.facebook.com/vickersforhouse/videos/221075075165644/
Maybe it's just that time of year. It's nearing the anniversary of my little brother's suicide (June 26, 1979), so the general thought is on my mind. Or is it real? Are we experiencing a rash of suicides? The latest, just reported today, is Anthony Bourdain, host and star of CNN's Parts Unknown.
I've been busy with recent personal issues, house and yard and my weekly vapid but hopefully entertaining OTs and thereby missed a bunch of major sturm und drang. Being curious I looked superficially into it and came up with dozens of great ideas for essays. I chose, however, to write this instead.
First, some basics:
What the hell is this place, anyway? It is a blog, a website, a community, a collection of authors and essays, commenters and comments, and music.
“Eating food seems too common sensical to be an exhortation even once, but in a time where sugar dipped reconstituted corn bits are advertised 24-7, the guy who said a proper diet starts with "eat food" was a revolutionary and his wisdom is not repeated nearly often enough, because the obverse position is so incessantly stated. If Kellogs doesn't like it, fuck 'em.”
Hello there. I recently read some of the meta about what's been going on. One thing that caught my attention was the lamented absence of Hecate, Phoebe Loosinhouse, Dallasdoc and others people miss. I can't speak for them. No one person's reasons for writing or not writing on a blog are the same, even one with as generous a community as this one. But I can talk a little about the reasons for my own infrequent appearances here of late as compared to past years.
I supported Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary. I turned around and supported Hillary Clinton when she won the nomination. I fought tooth and nail on Twitter against people who decided otherwise, blocking hundreds. However, from that experience, I have come to realize that creating a permanent progressive majority requires us to elect candidates who are not beholden to the Military Industrial Complex.
