WTF

I usually try to be a little bit P.C. and balanced in my opinion. I’m giving you fair notice, right now, that today is not like that.

In the past few years, it’s become increasingly annoying to see “China” tagged as the manufacturing place of origin on pretty much every item that I pick up… even at giant AMERICAN retailers like Wal-Mart. Seriously – we, as a country, have become totally dependent on China.

Folks – China doesn’t even like us! China likes our money and they would like to annex us as part of its Communist empire.  But China doesn’t like us! We are everything the Chinese government doesn’t want its people to be. And we, America, are sucking Chinese cock all day long every day. (more…)

I think it is probably not uncommon, when a person whom you know dies, to feel the impulse to subject one’s self to inebriation. In fact, to subject one’s self to extreme inebriation.

Is it some sort of primal drive to push one’s self outside the envelope of the realm of perceived reality in a sub-conscious effort to be closer to the realm of those who have transcended our world?

I  don’t know but it happens to me pretty much each time someone I know dies. It’s not a sensations of grief … it’s not quite a celebration of the passing to another level of existence, either. It’s nearly that though.

To leave one’s self as much as possible without dying and actually crossing over that line is somehow compelling. In that context, addictions are more understandable. But this is more of a binge. Not a habit. More of a … fuck, I don’t know.

Another person I know has gone … died. And I’m, once again, drunk … in some sort of effort. Some sort of effort to separate from my reality and try to perceive that which cannot be perceived.

I am numb. Maybe that’s the goal? Numbness … the absence of normal self?

It is. I am. Tomorrow I will feel magnified aftershocks.

Stupidity.

According to a BBC News report, France has convicted the Church of Scientology on fraud charges in the country and is seeking to ban the organization from operating there.

The French government refuses to recognize the Church of Scientology as a real religion and instead classifies it as a sect. The allegation is the the organization is only a commercial venture designed to fleece vulnernable victims of as much money as possible.

This stance has drawn some flak on the French government with accusations of violations of France’s constitutional guarantees on religious freedom as well as the European Convention on Human Rights. (more…)

Huffington Post   |  Alex Leo   |   March 4, 2009 10:09 AM

Good ol’ Robbie Van Winkle – hailing from the hood in Carrolton, Texas. Yes, life was harsh in the northern suburbs of Dallas during the mid-eighties. A true gangland – full of upper-middle-class white kids with more money than brains and a penchant for recreational drugs and the urban beats of the more dangerous and hard-edged african-american areas to the far south (end of Dallas).

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My stinky old Clarks

I have a very comfortable and well broken in pair of Clarks loafers. They are my favorite shoes but there is one problem: they stink.

It started with the original insoles. When they wore out I replaced them with a pair of fancy “support” insoles. These were made of a sort of foam … and they caused my feet to sweat. These shoes are leather and have no ventilation holes.

So I chucked out the foam soles and replaced them with Dr. Scholl’s regular old insoles. These worked well for a few weeks. Now my Clarks are getting a little stinky again.

It’s time for another new pair of Dr. Scholl’s insoles, I guess.