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For those of you that don't know, I have this thing about ants. They completely freak me out. I get a little nutty when they're around. I spray, I smash, I hyperventilate a little bit, and I tend to yell a bit during the entire thing. I just hate ants. When I read this morning about a new ant infestation in Houston, I got the heebie jeebies. When the article mentioned that there were billions of them, that they seemed to be resistant to most pesticides, had multiple queens per colony, an affection for electronics and were likely too numerous to eradicate now, I started to perspire.It's clear now, I can never visit Texas ever again. I'm sure my sister will be sorry to hear this, but she'll finish school soon hopefully and decide to relocate someplace that isn't infested with the one creature that drives me to irrational fear and hatred.
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This morning, while reading that Hillary Clinton has vowed to not drop out of the race "until there's a nominee," I had something of a revelation. For more than a decade, the world has wondered why she stayed with Bill after the scandal with Lewinsky became public. It was even a matter of some speculation during the primary campaign. Could she really be a feminist if she stayed with a husband who cheated? If she couldn't manager her own house, how could she manage a country? There was speculation that she stayed out of fear, humiliation, desire for power, and other reasons, some more ridiculous than others. What I realized though, is that none of those were the real reason. The real reason is; she's completely delusional. I can't tell if this is just how she reacts to stress, or if it's one symptom of a larger breakdown. She's been increasingly erratic of late. During an ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos she was challenged on her ludicrous gas tax holiday proposal. Stephanopoulos asked Clinton, "can you name an economist who thinks this makes sense?" Her response, delivered in a hokey assumed southern accent no less, was "Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to put my lot in with economists." What? Really? Because those fancy high falutin economists are just putting on airs and don't really understand the economy? And seriously? Now, I'll admit that of late, some people who do work in the economy haven't made the best decisions. It wasn't economists who got us into this sub-prime mortgage nonsense though, it was greedy speculators and lenders backed by a weak federal policy machine. And what's with the pandering accent? Are you going to start complaining about Obama's monocle and top hat next? Will you literally do anything in your attempt to slander your opponent and win the nomination? At least you wouldn't slyly imply that honkys are the only really important Americans, and marginalize non-caucasians. Oh wait. You did."Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." Clinton chose to defend her words by digging this hole even deeper. "These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election... Everybody knows that." Really? Everybody? Are you sure it's not just you who thinks that? Well, you and probably some Republicans.
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A few days ago, or maybe as long ago as a week it's hard to tell, I had my admin rights and powers at Everything2 removed. For some of you, this will mean something, and for others, it won't. The short history is that E2 was an ambitious project started nearly a decade or more ago by some talented people. It was a website, where one could post writings on a variety of topics and interact with the others involved using a rudimentary browser based chat function. ( cut for talking about E2, something few people have any stomach for anymore. )In the end, I think I'm okay with the whole thing. E2 was a very special place for a very special time. All things change though, and that change is inevitable. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. I'm not going to speculate on which way this went, but I'm not sure it's a change I like. I'm still a little bothered that there appear to be so many involved who don't seem to understand or realize that things aren't really looking up. Some seem so lost in their insistence that Everything is okay. Even as their ankles get wet, they exclaim that the boat isn't sinking, and when all the rats jump overboard, they claim that the pest control is finally working. Standard operating procedure at E2, an unwritten law of the land, has been that you post your parting shot on the site. Whether it's a Dear John letter, or a sweeping condemnation of the site and its power structure, people seem to expect that one last "Go To Hell!" I'm not doing that. Mostly I'm not doing it because I haven't really left any more than I had stopped being an admin. I'm not a fled user. I'm a guy who has better ways to spend his time these days. I'm a guy who moved on. I'm a guy who will still visit and probably still consider himself a part of the community, as stunted and dysfunctional as it can be. Partially though, I'm not posting this on E2 because, seriously, who would read it? It's like a ghost town these days.
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| Your LJ Slut Stats! |
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Poll #1179026 Monday Poll: Traffic and fuel
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllI would support legislation that applied a tax to the use of private passenger vehicles in excess of X gross tonnage in urban environments exceeding X amount of population density. I would support legislation that levied dramatically increased fines for moving violations. Is the short term impact of erratic and dangerous driving more, or less, hazardous than the long term danger of reckless fuel consumption? The government should do something about fuel costs. Ethanol production from corn is...
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