All The Little Piggies

This is my first post since the blogger account has gotten google-atized. I'm a little annoyed at having to login twice, and hope it doesn't stay that way.

Otherwise, everything seems to be in place.

For today's message to no one in particular, I offer my opinion of the recent governmental changes.

Democrazies versus Republicanists. Although I am not very socialist, in that I don't believe everyone should get equal pay for being overfed couch potatoes, I also don't believe that the USA should be run by racists and fascists who still fly the Confederate Flag and revel in the riches of corporate dictators, love the poverty of middle class workers, and who believe in the abolition of reason -- preferring irrational Biblical evangelism instead.

I wish there was a true Rational Party, where people who aren't one extreme or another could provide support for government. We don't have to kill everybody in Arabia or just give in to the terrorists. Things are not black and white like that. Also, I don't like having to choose between The Rapture and Atheism. Both of those extreme positions are filled with the same irrational pomposity. No one can prove there is a God or that there isn't one. As far as that goes, however, the burden of proof lies with those who make their claims. The Rational Party would not make such claims, or demand that either extreme must burn all their books.

Children are the future, as everyone already knows, but we are making a world for them which will be very ugly, and difficult to survive in. It will be a great test of adaptivity, of increased competition for resources, and a more terrible jungle than any found in 19th century Africa. The term "only the strong will survive" might well be rephrased to "only the bacteria will survive". Since there is no actual Rational Party, little will be done to fend off a polluted world with nasty weather; one riddled with disease and pestilence from a great disruption in the cycle of life on Earth.

There are still senators like Inhofe who claim that God will save us from our gluttonous, bigoted habits, so just go ahead and drive that 500 hp pickup truck across the prairies, burning as much gasoline and rubber as possible -- thus lining the pockets of all those who profit from pollution. If God didn't want bigots, well certainly they'd just poof out of existence, right? If God didn't want us to eat like pigs he wouldn't have created humans, right?