"I came here for porn, booze, and women." -Tony
Here's all the hawt babes you can handle:
Dare I say greatest drawing produced by the mind of man...
I DO!
Friday, October 28, 2005
The Masses
In order to fufill tony's request
"I came here for porn, booze, and women." -Tony
Here's all the hawt babes you can handle:
Dare I say greatest drawing produced by the mind of man...
I DO!
"I came here for porn, booze, and women." -Tony
Here's all the hawt babes you can handle:
Dare I say greatest drawing produced by the mind of man...
I DO!
Thursday, October 27, 2005
meh
the more i read what i wrote,
the more i roll my eyes at attempts to sound smart,
the more the observations seem trite.
meh
the explanation being, I think i'd rather have humorous posts than something "serious".
the more i roll my eyes at attempts to sound smart,
the more the observations seem trite.
meh
the explanation being, I think i'd rather have humorous posts than something "serious".
Theories on history
It's really easy as a student of history to look back on previous time periods and muse at how great the time was compared to our own.
As an example, to many the 1950's seem like a perfect place to live, but further scrutiny reveals fractured family lives and unfulfilled dreams, living under the shadow of a nuclear cloud.
The same goes for people's reverence of Abraham Lincoln. It's hard to separate the fact from the myth. But in his case, and his time period, I would say that while he was flawed more than historical portraits generally portray (and recent similar treatments of Lincoln point out the same thing), he was still a model president. Or THE model for a president.
Great men tend to be contradictory; Lincoln fought bouts of depression, but had a great sense of humor, a sensitive persona, but would become very steeled in his arguments and decisions when the time came. Another frequent fact pointed out is that he appointed his presidential nominees and rivals to his cabinet.
This fact is rather poignant, considering modern politics focuses on appointing the best man...with similar ideologies to your own. Debate when controlled by an intelligent, charismatic person fosters growth of ideas, and avoids the pitfalls of groupthink. Exactly what is needed to run a country with so many different viewpoints fighting for the lead.
I'm not saying passive compromise does anyone any good, but stupid bitching back and forth over small issues, and refusing to do something for the good of people without insisting that money for constituents is attached, or telling people there all important issues are an "either or" situation does nothing.
The point im trying to make is that regardless of how fantastic we think Lincoln's time period was in dealing with partisanship and perhaps debate of issues, we should strive to actually engage in meaningful informed debates about issues (on the right, the left, and the middle), instead of rabid shouting and posturing for a cause. Don't take the passion out of politics, but focus it for something better. Don't compare it to the past and reminiscence about what the "good ol days" were like, because they probably weren’t so hot.
Finally, my point about America is that when the shit has hit the fan, when we really really needed the right man or men (pc: women) for the job, we've found him, and gotten through.
The revolution. The civil war. The depression.
This is my first rant on something, and I don’t claim for it to be any end all position. Especially as it was written in about 10 minutes. It is easy to say all this, as chances are I won't be asked to follow through, and I do see some irony (hypocrisy?) in the fact that I really take no sides in a meandering (read random ass thought pattern) rant, about how we should engage in debate. But perhaps my first entrance into true blogger'ery isn't a complete waste. Just in case, heres a picture of the blues brothers:
"While shooting elephants in Africa, I found the tusks very difficult to remove. But in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa..."
-Groucho Marx
As an example, to many the 1950's seem like a perfect place to live, but further scrutiny reveals fractured family lives and unfulfilled dreams, living under the shadow of a nuclear cloud.
The same goes for people's reverence of Abraham Lincoln. It's hard to separate the fact from the myth. But in his case, and his time period, I would say that while he was flawed more than historical portraits generally portray (and recent similar treatments of Lincoln point out the same thing), he was still a model president. Or THE model for a president.
Great men tend to be contradictory; Lincoln fought bouts of depression, but had a great sense of humor, a sensitive persona, but would become very steeled in his arguments and decisions when the time came. Another frequent fact pointed out is that he appointed his presidential nominees and rivals to his cabinet.
This fact is rather poignant, considering modern politics focuses on appointing the best man...with similar ideologies to your own. Debate when controlled by an intelligent, charismatic person fosters growth of ideas, and avoids the pitfalls of groupthink. Exactly what is needed to run a country with so many different viewpoints fighting for the lead.
I'm not saying passive compromise does anyone any good, but stupid bitching back and forth over small issues, and refusing to do something for the good of people without insisting that money for constituents is attached, or telling people there all important issues are an "either or" situation does nothing.
The point im trying to make is that regardless of how fantastic we think Lincoln's time period was in dealing with partisanship and perhaps debate of issues, we should strive to actually engage in meaningful informed debates about issues (on the right, the left, and the middle), instead of rabid shouting and posturing for a cause. Don't take the passion out of politics, but focus it for something better. Don't compare it to the past and reminiscence about what the "good ol days" were like, because they probably weren’t so hot.
Finally, my point about America is that when the shit has hit the fan, when we really really needed the right man or men (pc: women) for the job, we've found him, and gotten through.
The revolution. The civil war. The depression.
This is my first rant on something, and I don’t claim for it to be any end all position. Especially as it was written in about 10 minutes. It is easy to say all this, as chances are I won't be asked to follow through, and I do see some irony (hypocrisy?) in the fact that I really take no sides in a meandering (read random ass thought pattern) rant, about how we should engage in debate. But perhaps my first entrance into true blogger'ery isn't a complete waste. Just in case, heres a picture of the blues brothers:
"While shooting elephants in Africa, I found the tusks very difficult to remove. But in Alabama, the Tuscaloosa..."
-Groucho Marx
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Updates?
Does anyone read this? I could go on random rants about things, but I think it'll just turn into self-absorbed crap no one cares for.
Leave a message in the comments, if I'm actually typing to someone, and tell me something you want to hear about.
And such.
Leave a message in the comments, if I'm actually typing to someone, and tell me something you want to hear about.
And such.
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