Racist Romance Writer Smackdown
In twitterland, there is a list of trending topics. The other day, the top trend was #IStandWithCourtney. The trend topping #ISWC tweet: Jingle Elle Maruska (they/them) @ellle_em “#IStandWithCourtney Calling out racism is not being racist Pointing out someone’s unethical behavior is not being unethical I stand with Courtney because white feelings are in no way more important than fighting for marginalized people’s right to exist in any & all spaces.” If you think you know where this is headed, you are probably correct. This is a repost from 2019.
Perez Hilton puts it all in a nutshell. “What’s it all about? It’s about racism, injustice, and of course erotic tales of ribald fantasy. Yep, it’s drama in the world of romance novelists! This month the Romance Writers of America suspended author Courtney Milan (presumably asking her to turn in her badge and her quill) over what they called a violation of their code of ethics.”
“So what had Milan, the author of such historical Harlequins as A Kiss For Midwinter … done to deserve this literary excommunication? Apparently fellow novelists Suzan Tisdale (Secrets of the Heart) and Kathryn Lynn Davis (Too Deep For Tears) filed a formal complaint over a twitter thread … in which Milan — a Chinese American author — called out one of Davis’ books for being racist.”
Smart Bitches has more on this bodice-ripping badass, with documentation galore. Davis complaint, Tisdale complaint I, Tisdale complaint II RWA ethics committee report “whether it’s a publishing house deciding that a contract with a white supremacist is a good idea, or a writer’s organization deciding that white supremacy is the right decision ethically.”
The twitter thread is can’t-miss reading. @courtneymilan read a sample of Somewhere lies the moon. There was a twitter reaction, that will live in infamy. @courtneymilan “And we’ve been talking about Sue Grimshaw? Someone sent me a link to a book written by the other editor, Kathryn Lynn Davis, and is a fucking racist mess.”
The Davis complaint notes that the Milan opinion is based on reading a sample of SLTM. By her own admission, @courtneymilan did not finish the sample, much less read the book. @courtneymilan “Here’s the book. I didn’t finish the sample. I didn’t need to.”
Racism smackdown fans are probably asking, what was so fucking racist messy about SLTM? The accuser is Chinese-American, as is the racially besmirched character. No forbidden words, beginning with N, were used. It is not that type of racism.
The damning nanoagressions are documented in a series of tweets. Here are a few. The part following a link is by @courtneymilan. Transcribed screen shots are identified as (SS). If you click on the link, you can see the entire screen shot. This might help you understand the situation better.
@courtneymilan “This book is like a bingo card of OH GOD DID YOU REALLY. Start out with the heroine, who is the obligatory blue-eyed half-Chinese woman.” (SS) “Lian was twenty-five, tall and lithe, with the thick black hair and bronze skin of the Chinese”@courtneymilan “I mean…. that doesn’t really happen. (Genevra is half-Indian and also blue-eyed.) But also… like. Of course. This is like such a standard racist trope. WHY.”
@courtneymilan “Here is our half-Chinese woman remembering her past, where she is explicitly told that the future is the West, and that for Chinese women, compliance is the rule. SIGH.” (SS)”I am a captive of my own history, but I have raised you to be free, to move forward toward the future – and the future is the West.” “I was no’ askin’ what your parents wanted, but what ye want for yourself” “It is not important. It is not a question I ask myself. In China Shun, compliance, is the rule for women”
@courtneymilan “Here she is, meeting another Chinese family in London. I’m gonna be honest: I don’t know how I feel about “bronze” as the “standard” for Chinese skin (prior tweets), but I *do* know how I feel about “yellow.” And about almond eyes.” (SS) “…their thick blue-black hair and bronze faces, turned slightly yellow by the London climate, were unmistakably Chinese, as were their slanted almond eyes” @courtneymilan “Note that this in Lian’s point of view. She was raised in China. She only describes the Chinese people by skin color/eye slant, not the white people. She’s literally describing absolutely normal people to her as if she were a white woman talking about a foreigner.”
@courtneymilan “Oh, I was searching for something else and found this: In China, women didn’t learn anything.” (SS) “In China, no woman was taught much more than cooking and sewing and the graceful art of pleasing her husband.” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Perfection
You didn’t grow up · adult duties how hard harsh · figure out feel you
It has been a great morning so far. It would be even better if I can get outside in that cold, wet, December air. Unfortunately, I need to finish writing this post.
ought perfection myth · ability just forgive · happiness toxic
WH Auden wrote a poem once. Epitaph on a tyrant started by saying “Perfection of a kind, was what he was after.” I know this poem because Tom Rapp based a song on it, Footnote. In the alternative version, “burst with laughter” became “laughed at his feet.” The latter version works much better for me, which tells us about the shortcomings of perfection.
mere players exit · Mewling puking whining creep · Mad bubble justice
This haiku had men in the first part, which gave it an extra beat. To make a proper haiku, the men had to go. This is an analogy of the role of gender in modern society. To fit into a formula, men have got to leave the picture. The 5-7-5 feng shui is more important than mere men.
aria talents · regard their crackpot fool who · rant their loyalty
The comparison of an aria … the showstopper solo in an opera … to the ravings of the common media myrmidon, endlessly braying about what their sponsors want to hear … can make the a crackpot fool seem like a prophet in his own land.
American rig · chic society edges · Republican smash
Rig is a word with many uses. Rig rhymes with the first syllable of popular six letter word, and is sometimes used as a euphemism. When chic society edges towards its Republican climax, powered by the American rig used to inject hard drugs into quivering veins, edging with delight at the anticipation of another fix of TRUTH, then one can only marvel at the spectacle.
sorry traveler · looked down under the other · grassy passing worn
Bobby Frost was lucky to be born when he was. He does not see one of his best lines corrupted by the fence building industry. He was a 20th century traveler, looking down from under the other, on his way to the grassy, passing knoll. The other is used to it.
My Bad
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This is a repost from the murky past. The college on N. Indian Creek Dr. is now known as “GSU Perimeter College – Clarkston Campus” The Watering Hole was torn down, and is now Top express car wash. Abortion has been legalized, and re-criminalized. Atlanta still has a lot more Peachtrees than peach trees. … · There is a tray. I found it at a yard sale, or thrown away, years and years ago. It sat unused in the tool shed until Mac got sick, at which point it became invaluable. I am giving it another shot with the bluetooth mouse, and it might just work. · JP Morgan can decide who they want to have as customers of course right because they’re private company and so it’s this it’s this slight of hand that happens it so it’s basically it’s a privatized sanctions regime that lets bureaucrats do to American citizens the same thing that we do to Iran kick you out of the financial system and so this has been happening to all the crypto entrepreneurs in the last four years this has been happening to a lot of the fintech entrepreneurs anybody trying to start any kind of new banking service um because they’re trying to protect the big Banks um and then this · @chamblee54 today’s holiday repost is a tale of turkey, satan worship, and a family that just doesn’t understand. If you think your racist, fox news watching uncle is a problem, read this bit of flash fiction and see how it could be much, much worse. link in the comments. · @captivedreamer7 This is a great little video, barely a minute long – i encourage all of you to watch it. This was the moment that Bernie Sanders and his movement completely lost in 2015. “Democratic Socialism” was destroyed by leftist “identity politics.” · This is a repost from 2017. The events of the last seven years make Tales of the City look like Dick, Jane, and Sally … · “Babycakes” was published in 1988. At one point, the wife of a famous designer asks Mary Ann Singleton what Ivana Trump is like in real life. I would say you can’t make this up, but Armistead Maupin did. The spell check suggestion for babycakes is beefcakes. · “Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker, living in Ledyard, Connecticut, finishing up his Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Crouch is a stonemason by profession and lives on his farm where a little farming is done.” Jack Delano took the photograph in November 1940. · Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs! If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from? Link in comments · ‘If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” This item turned up in a giftshop poster about cats. It was credited to/blamed on Mark Twain. A lady said, in the comments, this is one of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain. The Twain wikiquotes does not have an entry with deteriorate. There are five references to cat, all in a single quote from “A Tramp Abroad.” “You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does — but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you’ll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.” · “If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Twain’s wikiquotes has 5 cat references, all from “A Tramp Abroad.” “… people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.” · Frank Zappa and the Mothers played at Frenchy’s House of BBQ, Hayward, CA, May 6-26, 1966. On May 21, they were the backing band for Neil Diamond. Link in comments. · “Tuning ’77” – a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage. Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide between audience expectation and performance anxiety. · today is #WorldAidsDay. This is a list of men that I have lost. It is not complete, and not Aids-exclusive. The good news is that this list is not updated very often. Link in the comments. · Alan Burnett~Bill Gaddy~Bill Medlock~Bill Meneely~Blaze Mills Buddy Conine~Calvin Bunn~Danny Fields~David Chewning · David Hadden~Charlie Hall~Dwight Dunaway · Freeman Waldrop~Gary Hunton~Gene Haynes · Gene Holloway~Gibson Higgins~Glenn Krause~Greg Scott · Harold King~Hawk~Jerry Pyschka~Jim Anderson~Jim Ferguson · Jim Woodward~Joe Kenney~Joe Vickery~John Kelley · John Harllee~Jon Gordon~King Thackston~Larry Jackson · Layton Gregory~Lee Mullis~Les Friessen~Mac Wilson · Manfred Ibis~Mark Keenum~Mark Rosen~Martin Isganitus · Michael Dollins~Micheal Mason~Mike Perling~Moon Moore · O’Gene Donohue~Purl Sudds~Ron Davis~Sam Mitchell · Skeeter Smith~Steve Bedworth~Stuart Davis~Ti Barfield · Tom Aderhold~Tom Selman~Tom Williams~Trion · Winston Morriss · Robert and I went to Chastain Park yesterday. There is some major construction work in the middle of our path, and we had to illegally slip across it. It was sunny when we started, but rapidly getting darker as we progressed. Taking pictures is too much work. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress · selah
Natural Foods
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
The best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
The easiest way to find something around the house is to buy a replacement.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
Life is sexually transmitted. It is always fatal.
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Health is merely the slowest possible rate a which one can die.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Some people are like Slinkies. Not good for anything,
but you still can’t help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days,
no one ever talks about seeing UFOs anymore?
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say,
“I’m squeezing these dangly things here, and drinking whatever comes out?”
Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there?
I’m eating the next thing that comes outta its bottom.”
Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!
If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables,
then what is baby oil made from?
Pictures are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
Thanksgiving Story
Thanksgiving was a time our family cherished. It was the only time all of us got together under one roof and mingled. Except for me. ~ I was the the family embarrassment. They were Catholic, and disliked my way of life. I played guitar, loved Heavy Metal, and worshiped Satan. ~ All this explains why my family shunned me. In their eyes, I was the flaw of a nearly perfect gem, but in mine, I was the cream of the crop.
I should’ve known they had something awful in mind when they asked me to join them somewhere. They drove me to the very corner of the ranch. ~ “What the fuck are we doing back here,” I asked. My only reply was, “Shut up you blaspheming fool.”
At last we got to the destination. My father, mother, and sister were standing around, wearing funeral clothes. ~ In the middle was a shallow grave. “What’s that hole for?” I asked dumbly. “Take a guess you satanic fucker!” Was the reply from my father.
I felt a thud on my head. I hit the ground with a loud thlap. I turned in spite of excruciating pain to see my uncle wielding a shovel. ~ I touched the back of my head to find my fingers coated in blood. I suddenly grew light headed and passed out. When I woke up I inhaled dirt. ~ Luckily, my family didn’t know how to properly bury someone so I was able to dig myself out. I sat there and puked for about fifteen minutes.
When I got back, it was Thanksgiving night. through the window I could see my family, sitting there, saying grace like the sheeple they were. ~ Seeing them praying made my hate for them and all Catholics grow. It went from a smouldering, muddled anger, to a flaming, outrageous hatred.
I ran into the garage and found my uncle’s shotgun, sitting there, waiting for me, beckoning, saying, “Go ahead, make these fuckers pay.” ~ “Hi Mom!” I shouted as I pulled the trigger, I started laughing uncontrollably as I continued firing at my family until I was empty.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” My father asked, wounded, shot in the gut. “Wrong with me?” I asked calmly. “What’s wrong with you?” ~ With that I threw the gun away and dined. Not on Turkey, but on raw human flesh. It was the best Thanksgiving ever. ~ Twitter serialization by @creepypasta_txt. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
The Day CS Lewis Died
It is a cold saturday before turkey day. Since I am too lazy to write fresh material, I will recycle. The product is a book report of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, by Thomas Eugene Robbins. When you read TER, you start to think, which can cause trouble in both Little China and Big Muddy. Just editing a book report from five years ago can have that effect.
A note on context. A load of laundry is in the machine, and will require a maintenance visit. The good news is that the device is working properly, and the drain is sending all the water to the county, without leaving any overflow on the floor. Somewhere between 19 and 39 minutes from now, the load will be done, and it will be time to hang it to dry in the back yard.
The music in the background is by JS Bach. The internet archive is chock full of high quality music by the gentleman. I can go back to listening to more recent music when the time is right.
In the text, the word arcana appears. It should not surprise anyone that a text about TER will have the word arcana, which rhymes with banana and Savannah … jfc, I hit the cntrl button instead of shift when spelling Savannah, and google docs had a hissy fit because it thought I wanted voice typing, and this device does not have a microphone … arcana is not recognized by spell check. The suggestions are canary, canard, narc, NASCAR.
So, the post is finished and posted. On a good day, it will get a viewer. I am posting almost exclusively for my own enjoyment. A Dick Cavett guest once said that reading and masturbation were the only solitary pleasures, but he never wrote a blog.
It is now 2315, roughly 14 hours after I started this. I originally thought I would write and write and write, but now the get up and go has done got up and went. Maybe it was when I got in from hanging the laundry out to dry. I decided to go for my morning walk, and put a bottle of water in my bag. Unfortunately, the cap on the bottle wasn’t shut all the way, and about half the bottle wound up in my bag. I had to empty the bag, set half of the contents out to dry, and take the bag out to the clothes line to dry. That was the high point of the day.
@The_Kyle_Mann Everyone remembers where they were the day CS Lewis died @chamblee54 I was in fourth grade. What really tore me up was Aldous Huxley. … Aldous Huxley was tripping on acid when he met his maker. JFK was dreaming about having a quickie with this girl he was going to meet after lunch, while Jackie was getting her pillbox hat retooled. As for CS Lewis, it was really an allegory for Jesus getting offed on the cross. Some people just know how to have a good time.
Maybe a few notes more about HAIFP are in order. The first time I read HAIFP was early 1996. I was taking a break from smoking pot, and wondering if I was going to make it. After six weeks of misery, I was reading HAIFP one night. One character said, in the house of your mind, the pictures are all upside down. I walked over to a poster of Grace Jones, pulled the push pins out, and put it upside down. At that point, I realized that marijuana detox was going to work, but not until I finished my peanut butter and raw garlic sandwich. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Sutra Concern
dark thin empty gaze · remember creaking clomping · nothing but himself
Robert Lee Frost wrote the motto of the fencing industry, and never recieved a dime in return. Of course, RLF has been dead 61 years, which may have something to do with this. RLF is not well known to the younger generation, but was quite a force in his day.
teenage Buddhism · understand Sutra concern · will raise man warning
There are a lot of warnings in the manosphere these days. The spectre of teenage Buddhism is attaching itself to the carnal corporal copulation, while inducing somatic suffering and existential eggheads. When you understand … or oversit … these concerns, you will be blessed.
SCAM ORIGINATES · RUNAWAY COLONIAL · FAT INDIGENOUS
The headline of this all-caps eyesore is “IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE.” Of course, the middle three letters of BELIEVE is LIE, but don’t worry about that one. It is all a SCAM, and if you BELIEVE enough you will revert from slender Euro-American to FAT INDIGENOUS.
JD Vance normal · became radical they/them · resents deranged me
Actually, JDV is the closest thing to normal in the new odor order. He is already radical, no matter what pronoun he uses. JDV is going to bring back using initials to identify politicians, in the tradition of FDR, JFK, and LBJ. Never mind that the last one did not work out so well. The resentment of Trump deranged America will not go away.
racism models · #BlackWoman consequences · mediocre bet
This is about the phenomenon of Kamala Devi Harris. She is 44% Jamaican, and yet was aggressively marketed to the voting public as a #BlackWoman. If you point out the Indian mother, then you were a racist. KDH became Democratic Presidential nominee after a bizarre set of circumstances which nobody fully understands. KDH ran one of the worst campaigns in recorded history, including youtube ads … with no opportunity to skip … where she screams “And when we fight, we WIN!!!” Maybe somebody was impressed by these ads, but the net effect is to blow through untold billions of dollars and elect the antichrist former POTUS to a second term. Mediocre is a compliment when talking about a corrupt hack like KDH.
his op-ed sexist · transphobic harassment con · young men art problem
Part of the fun of #Politics2024 is phrases like “manosphere.” Apparently, saying anything other than white men are the source of all the world’s ills is tantamount to platforming neonazis. Saying that prepubescent young men should not take puberty blockers women is transphobic harassment. The woke-apocalypse is at hand, and all those who resist will be forced to watch Kamala Harris campaign videos on endless repeat, with no opportunity to skip.
Line Mining The Sonnets
Find the sonnets of Shakespeare. Copy them into a word document. Read each one, and isolate the lines that resonate. Match up the lines by rhyme. Compile villanelles when appropriate. Retrofit rhymes onto others, pair them into couplets. Incorporate them into sonnets and octrains. Since the lines are already iambic pentameter, there should be minimal metric revision.
It became obvious that hearing them read would work better. A lovely source turned up. Earlier this year, Sir Patrick Stewart read a sonnet a day. The actor sat down, put his glasses on, opened his book, and read a sonnet for the camera. There were little comments, about the poems, scattered throughout the videos. With the aid of Sir Patrick, I began to get a sense for the iambic feng shui. In my own craft, I have long struggled with meter. Maybe this will help.
Everything is lower case in my graphic poems. There is no punctuation. It soon became apparent that commas were essential to the pacing of the sonnets. As for the capital letters, it is likely that Mr. Shakespeare capitalized. This was a few hundred years before e. e. cummings.
How do we know for sure? The original manuscripts are not available. “None of Shakespeare’s original manuscripts have survived, due perhaps to the fact that they were written, many of them hastily, strictly for stage performance. Not so much as a couplet written in Shakespeare’s own hand has ever been proven to exist.” There is speculation as to the true authorship of these pieces.
“Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published together in 1609 as a quarto, athough they were probably written much earlier. The sonnets, far more popular today than the epic poems, are still published both individually and as a group.” How did these sonnets get from the desk, to the printed page?
Sonnet LIV ends with “When that shall vade, my verse distills your truth.” @SirPatStew commented on the word vade, just as I was ready to take a google break. A site, Shakespeare’s Words, appeared. Vade seems to be the same word as fade. And no, this blog was not named for Sonnet 54.
1609 not only saw the publication of the sonnets, but the production of the King James Bible. There are legends that Mr. Shakespeare was involved in this project. “Because, if you count 46 words from the beginning of Psalm 46 and 46 words from the ending of the psalm (not counting the “Selahs”), you arrive at these two words: “shake” and “spear.” … Shakespeare would have been 46 years old in 1610, when scholars were finalizing the translations for publication the following year.”
Some Bible scholars are not fond of this story. “Nevertheless, just like the idiotic claim that King James was a sodomite, the story will undoubtedly be repeated ad nauseum no matter how thoroughly it has been discredited.” Less debunkable is this: “William Shakespeare is an anagram of ‘Here was I, like a psalm.'” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
Eighteen Questions Part Two
A few days ago I recycled a 2008 post, with 18 questions shared by the late Michael Liebmann. Many of the issues discussed have seen dramatic changes in the last 16 years. It might be fun to take a look at these 18 questions through the lens of 2024.
01. Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as The Controversial Survey? · Sharing dangerous opinions was always been risky. When you have a blog that “nobody reads,” it is a bit safer to stick your red neck out.
02. Would you do meth if it was legal? · No. I agree with Abby Hoffman … speed is a body fuck drug. Those who sell it should be severely punished. He also said the only dope worth shooting was Richard Nixon. Our current leaders make Tricky Dick seem reasonable.
03. Abortion: for or against it? · Oh my, how this issue has changed. Roe v. Wade took a long time to overturn, and it will take even longer to reinstate. Abortion is now a state issue, for better or worse. The a-word is an emotionally charged issue. Almost anything you say, or don’t say, is going to upset somebody. As a gay man, I have been exempt from many of the tough decisions faced by others. I am rather reluctant to tell other, more involved, people what they should do.
04. Do you think the world would fail with a female president? · When we have a president of the world, we can think about this more. In the last 8 years Democrats have had 2 women candidates for President. Both Hillary and Kamala are incredibly flawed performers, who lost to the orange haired antichrist. The first job of the president is to get elected.
05. Do you believe in the death penalty? · I apply Bill Clinton’s take on abortion to the death penalty. “______ should be safe, legal, and rare.” There is one other “life issue,” war. By it’s very nature, war is not safe, but it is usually legal. If only we could make war rare.
06. Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already? · Reefer is legal in many states now. Unfortunately, Georgia is not one of them. We may be seeing a backlash against legal pot in the near future, or maybe not. This could be a good issue for Donald Trump to step up on.
07. Are you for or against premarital sex? · People are always going to fuck.
08. Do you believe in God? · The key word in that sentence is believe, not God. IMHO, God probably exists, in some form or another. The question is whether or not you approach her through belief. Beliefs are just opinions on steroids.
09. Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized? · This is an obsolete question. SSM seems to be firmly entrenched in our culture, and probably will not go anywhere.
10. Do you think it’s wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA? · This is similar to my views on abortion. My ancestors have been in America for hundreds of years. I am not a poor person, desperately trying to survive economic hardship or a repressive government. Those who do will have a dramatically different point of view.
11. A twelve year old girl has a baby, should she keep it? · I don’t understand this. Does it refer to a 12yo getting pregnant, and being forced to carry the child to term? Or does it mean a 12yo, with an already delivered infant? Are we going to forcibly take the child away, even if there is a family to support and assist? We need more information.
12. Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen? · Yes, but this is not going to happen. In the seventies, 18 year olds could drink, and boy did we ever. A few years later, the federal government made federal highway money dependent on a 21 yo drinking age. While many of us support a return to the 18 yo party days, it probably is not going to happen.
13. Should the war in Iraq be called off? · The war in Iraq eventually petered out on its own. Eventually, the killing moved across the border into Syria, which was weakened dramatically. Syria is not a factor in the current Israeli holocaust wars, which may have been the ultimate goal of both the Syrian civil war, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
14. Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree? · I said in the earlier piece that offing yourself should not require the assistance of a doctor. I have not changed my mind.
15. Do you believe in spanking your children? · As someone who does not have any children, it is not appropriate for me to have opinions.
16. Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars? · In recent years I have declared war on people leaving unwanted flags in stranger’s yards. Some people see this as a good way to advertise their products. This is a greater desecration than burning a flag.
17. Who do you think would make a better president? · Almost anyone.
18. Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers? · If it got someone to put down facebook long enough to read something, I am pleased.
Winching The Dead
A recent post included the phrase “getting severely overweight dead people out of an apartment building.” Those are googling words. Most of the results are hand wringing about the number of overweight people. A couple of the results were worth clicking out.
The headline result is from Merry Olde England, which is becoming known as the fattest country in Europe. Fire service called in 50 times to winch fat people out.
“Paramedics in the West Midlands have had to call on their heavy-lifting emergency service colleagues, despite having extra equipment to help move extremely heavy patients themselves. Over a three-year period they called in West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service on 50 occasions, so the patients could be winched out with apparatus designed for lifting car wrecks. Sometimes morbidly obese patients, … can only be extracted from their homes after a window is taken out, say firefighters.
… Nick Harrison, chairman of the West Midlands Fire Brigades Union, said: “In most cases these people are quite elderly and are suffering from serious medical issues which have left them bedridden for a long time, and they have put on a lot of weight. “Many times we have to remove the whole window frame and get them out that way. It’s a lot safer both for them and for the rescuers.”
… Official statistics show the West Midlands to be the fattest region in Britain, which is itself the fattest major country in Europe. According to the Association of Public Health Observatories, about 25 per cent of adults in Britain are now clinically obese. In the West Midlands, the figure is 29 per cent. By comparison, across the European Union as a whole it is just 14 per cent. “
One of the commenters had a constructive suggestion: “The ‘feeders’ should be brought to court and punished. For every obese person there is one or more ‘feeders’, who shop, supply the food, help the person eat it etc. Being a ‘feeder’ should be a criminal offense.”
This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
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