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These visits to alternative reality are from a variety of sources. Included are Facebook (fb), twitter (tw), Futility Closet (fucl), All Aphorisms, All The Time (Aph), Texts From Last Night (tln) , and Overheard in New York (ony). You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. #OgdenNash ☺ @headturner17 im coming ☺ (tw) /// some tortures are physical and some are mental, But the one that is both is dental. #OgdenNash tw Poets aren’t very useful, because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful #OgdenNash (tw) /// Killing is cheap. War is a sport, in a city where life and death become abstractions of policy.–Bill Moyers. /// Metamorphosis. Transformation. Chrysalis. New beginnings and dying gods. I have no words right now. I’ll emerge soon enough, I suppose. (fb) /// I’m a leo who’s in the process of learning to keep people warm with my fire, and not burn them with it. Living between words: queer, disabled, jewish, gender non-conforming, white, poor, chronically ill. Sometimes we fall through the cracks; sometimes we build bridges. I owe allegiance to no where and pledge to nothing. (fb) /// So I’ve made peace with the fallen leaves I see their same fate in my own body But I won’t be frightened when I’m awoken from this dream And return to that which gave birth to me. Bright Eyes – Method Acting. (fb) /// Lately, boys have seemed so bootleg. Even his hat is sketchy. (fb) /// Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, Orbital II (fb) /// Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. -Michel de Montaigne (fb) /// Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891) (fb) /// “Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.” ~ Gary Snyder (fb) /// @chrisbrown,Young King, YOU are the SuperStar, haters and baiters need you to respond to be relivant..don’t give it to em! Gotcha back doe! (tw) /// It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ~ Louis Pasture (tw) /// @kpsp95 @courtneylove she had kurt killed.. its her guilt and she has to live with it. she is selfish and doesnt deserve what she has anymor (tw) /// RT @almightygod: I haven’t felt this hung over since that time I woke up after being dead for three days. #sk4 (tw) /// Someone tell @tejucole that he had better not poke his nose in Pakistan’s internal affairs. (tw) /// “@tejucole: Police brutality, suppression of civil rights, and state-sponsored violence. New York is scary. Thank God I’m in Lagos.” True. (tw) /// On Marietta Square, an attorney loudly berating his client: “You brought this on yourself with that 2nd DUI!” Resisted the urge to give them both my business card. (fb) /// FT today: Shipping lines to Nigeria’s ports have to send 90% of containers back to Asia empty, earning no revenue @tejucole @BBCAfrica (tw) /// #thingsicanthandle my hallway is now the ghetto. Who is this black man next door and why is he shouting for 30 minutes straight? (tw) /// she texted me out of nowhere. and I wanted to get drunk. like I didn’t even have her new number until 6 hours ago and bam we were rolling around drinking cotton candy vodka from the bottle she had stuffed in a boot (tln) /// I cried and ate like 6 tacos in the taco bell parking lot at almost midnight, sober, alone, listening to a demi lavato cd. And that was the good part. (tln) /// #1 RULE OF DRINKING: DELETE YOUR EX’S NUMBER FROM YOUR PHONE (tln) /// I don’t even know where to begin….there’s queso sauce and public hair stuck to everything (tln) /// Do people get awards for pointing out other peoples mistakes? Do you then feel better about yourself? Its pathetic really #Engrish #Ebonics (tw) /// Ghadaffi’s son “napped” in desert. Was he that tired that he had to “nap” in the desert? #Engrish at it’s best (tw) /// twitter aint for u if u make alot of grammatical errors,people get crucified out here for tweeting in #Engrish (tw) /// “@chrisbrown ive never delt with so much negativity in my life! its to the point now that its just ridiculuos! IM NOT A POLITICIAN!”#engrish (tw) /// Strong opinions are like perfume. A tasteful drop can liven things up. If you apply too much, others will run out of the room gasping for breath. (fb) /// “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” -H.L. Mencken // Saying you’re into ska is just code for saying you were really awkward in middle school (fb) /// “The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently” // she tried to douche with champagne. in front of all of us. unabashedly. (tln) /// When I got up in the middle of the night, puked in his trash can, and snuck out the front door, I pretty sure he knew it was over. (tln) /// Next person that gets my dog drunk is paying to have my carpet cleaned. I am tired of getting up to pee and stepping in dog barf. (tln) ///

I just want to be HAPPY!!! NOTHING but HAPPY !!!! Thank you !!!!! (fb) /// I just want to steal his innocence through his penis. I really do. (tln) /// Periouds do not concern me. Biploogival needs are buological needs. (tln) /// In the UK. Bar special, every drink costs a pound. I’m two shots away from being deported. God save the queen. tln By the third Id pass back i figured the bouncer had fucked one of us. (tln) /// No, I’ve only ever seen his brother’s dick. So when I have lucid sex dreams, I just do a little cut and paste in my mind and stick his bro’s package onto him. (tln) /// anyone caught speaking ill of my both babes will be forced to attend Bible college until they’ve lost 20 IQ points. #sk4 (tw) /// Neither will Xtians, but I get fun sex in the meantime #sk4 RT @DenseGodBot: Fornicators shall not inherit the kingdom of God (tw) /// Free membership in American Atheists today only with coupon code “FREEMEM” I just joined. (tw) /// Guy: Ohmygod, you od’d? Girl: That was the first time… (ony) /// Girl: Danny may have my vagina, but you have my heart. Guy: Aww… I love boning hearts. (ony) /// College girl to college boy: I’d be the only one there in an argyle straight jacket! How cute would that be? (ony) /// Pregnant girl: Did you bring your money? Unpregnant girl: Aww crap, I forgot. Pregnant girl: You forget everything. Unpregnant girl: Yeah, but I don’t forget condoms. (ony) /// “If only they enforced bank regulations like they do park rules, we wouldn’t be in this mess.” #OWS #OccupyAtlanta (fb) /// [TRIGGER WARNING: My next posts will include pictures about fat shaming.] If anyone is interested in turning around the fat shaming campaign of “Strong4Life” or wants to give them some feedback about their harmful tactics at combating obesity and related illnesses through shaming people for their appearance/size and making them the target of institutionalized bullying, please let me know. (fb) /// The second earl of Leicester sat in parliament for 67 years without saying a word. His son, the third earl, was silent for 32 years. His grandson, the fourth earl, said nothing for 23 years. His great-grandson, the fifth earl, Thomas William Edward Coke, kept his silence for 22 years, then in 1972 rose and said, “I hope we shall use safer chemicals in place of those which have devastated the countryside.” (fucl) A lean compromise is better than a fat #lawsuit – George Herbert #Quote #gsws (tw) /// I resisted the temptation to point out that perhaps his brain was one of God’s errors. (tw) /// @tejucole In Chinatown Brooklyn, I think of Lizzie Bishop, wherever she is and will be, imagining the thought of here. (tw) /// @tejucole His brain is, perhaps, one of the many imperfections caused by Adam’s consumption of the apple (tw) /// uh, 3 redbulls and 400mg of caffeine pills and i still feel like life is in slowmotion..lets not take tranquilizers again. (tln) /// She just told me she had a double jointed jaw and winked at me while eating her bananna. That’s not possible right? (tln) /// Just spiked the bong with a ludens cough drop with hopes it soothes my throat after i rip it. (tln) /// So there I was praying he didn’t go limp again, choking on a long, long gray ball hair. This is my Saturday night. This. Is. My. Life. (tln) /// There was a gay guy in drag passed out against the wall but we had sex in there anyway. (tln) /// I love this Page, I love to laugh, and share jokes and Fucked up pics,But, I am sick of the whiny pussy Motherfuckers whining and reporting my posts, Grow the fuck up people, I just got another warning, this is sad, will miss you much, to the trolls, KISS MY FUCKING ASS………Get A Fucking life…. (fb) /// I know those types all too well. More than likely it’s something personal. Just laugh at them and keep doing what you do and if they don’t like it, fuck them. Tel them to delete you! (fb) /// Just don’t let me fall on anything that can be broken. Unless its a dick (tln) /// I’m sorry that I ate boneless ribs off of your sister, but that is no reason to drink my alcohol. (tln) /// We tried to break her futon, I crushed my balls instead. You have one less reason to be jealous that my balls are insanely huge and yours are not. (tln) /// Just once I’d like to throw a party where I don’t have to clean up someone else’s blood the next morning. (tln) /// Last time I heard from you, you were double fisting strawberry milk and wine. Answer this text so I know you’re still alive. Bonus points for a coherent answer. (tln) /// One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh. -Robert Heinlein (fb) /// I think I could feel better if only I could pin all my bad feelings on someone else and forget about them. . .but the reality is that I feel terrible because of….me. Tell me how I can escape THAT? (fb) /// It’s Kroger. It’s too early in the phucking morning for you in the produce section to challenge me to a rap battle… How many times are we going to do this brother?  You keep threatening to take my title cause I won’t battle rap you forgetting or deleting some very important things. #1 I am a poet not a phucking battle rapper! #2 If I called you a woman, you’d probably want to fight, so i’m thinking you don’t live your life as a woman. and #3 I’M NOT A PHUCKING BATTLE RAPPER, IT’S KROGER AND IT’S TOO PHUCKING EARLY IN THE MORNING FOR THIS SHYT! (fb) /// selah

When PG was assembling the previous post , he found a Michael Medved link redirected to Town Hall. While visiting this rancid repository of wingnut wank, PG saw a link to this story: Ron Paul: ‘I Won’t Rule Out Third Party Run’.
It seems as though the Doctor was on the Sean Hannity show recently. Mr. Hannity asked the Doctor about third party rumors, and the politician would only say ” I have no plans”. To those familiar with talkshow game playing, this means that Dr. Paul is playing the media game again. The odds are he will not run as a third party candidate. If that were the case, then PG wouldn’t have anything to write about, and you could just look at the pictures. (Pictures today are from The Library of Congress ).
Third party candidates do not win, but they can determine who will win. In 1992, Ross Perot got enough Repub votes to swing the election to Bill Clinton. In 2000. Ralph Nader got enough votes in Florida to throw that states electoral votes into chaos. If we had a plurality based popular vote for POTUS, there is no telling what would happen. (Which might be why neither major party wants to change the system.) When the rocket science of the electoral college is considered, a few percentage points in the right state could make the difference.
How a Ron Paul third party would play out is a good question. Dr. Paul is UGLY. Compared to BHO and Mitt Romney, he looks like a mad scientist. There is a possibility that the ugly people of America will feel solidarity with Dr. Paul, and vote the pretty candidates out.
The “conventional wisdom” is the Ron Paul would take votes away from the Republicans. PG is neither conventional nor wise. There is a good chance that a Ron Paul Third Party run would hurt BHO. (Maybe he could name the party after his son’s namesake, the Ayn Party.)
BHO has disappointed many of his followers. People who voted for hope and change, but have gotten bailouts and drone strikes. The one percent supported BHO, and has profited from the arrangement.
The one thing that PG likes about Ron Paul is his opposition to the wars in Stan Land. BHO was kinda sortof opposed to these wars, when he was a candidate. Since his election, he has repaid the merchants of death who contributed to his campaign. The possibility that a pacifist might give up on BHO is real.
The dissatisfaction with the status quo typified by the occupation movement goes beyond the liberal/conservative paradigm. People want real change, not a cosmetic shuffling of the political party in charge. Ron Paul has numerous flaws. However, he would offer a choice to the glamor saturated BHO supporters.

This post is based on a feature from four years ago. At the time, I had a job making local deliveries, and listened to talk radio. That is, until I could take no more, and turned the box off. The featured player in today’s melodrama is a whiner named Michael Medved. It discusses a movie, Redacted .
A few things have changed in four years. Redacted came and went. The War in Babylon was declared won, and the troops are being withdrawn. Mr. Medved has a new website. His new biography does not discuss his “occupational deferment” during the Vietnam war. This seems to be a touchy subject for many War supporters. At Red State a rule for comments states : Promotion of certain theories and ideas contrary to our site principles is not allowed. These ideas include, but are not limited to: Discrediting of opinions based on one’s service in the military, or lack thereof, commonly known as “Chickenhawking.”… And now for today’s feature presentation.
I was listening to the radio whiners today, and they were doing publicity for a movie called “Redacted”. Until today, I knew very little about it. It is about the rape/murder of a young girl in Iraq by a crew of American troops. This is a sorry episode, but the sort of thing you can expect in a war. I am surprised we have not had more stories like this. When the My Lai affair came to light and Lt. Calley was court martialled, a frequently quoted defense was “this happens all the time”.
A radio whiner named Michael Medved doubles as a movie critic. His opinion of “Redacted” was liberally quoted today, and through the miracle of internet copy paste it is available for my use. For the record, Mr. Medved was draft age during Vietnam. To quote his biography “Medved enrolled in Yale Law School after winning a generous fellowship, while teaching 7th and 8th grade three hours a day to earn an “occupational deferment” with the Vietnam era Selective Service System.”
Mr. Medved has evolved into a self proclaimed conservative, and a supporter of the War in Babylon. He did not appreciate “Redacted”. This is his right as a pundit/critic, although in the legal system this conflict of interests would cause him to excuse himself. Where Mr. Medved goes too far is with this comment: ” Nowhere does DePalma indicate that the chief victims of the so-called insurgents aren’t US forces, but Iraqi civilians. All reputable sources show Iraqi terrorists taking the lives of far more of their countrymen then American troops have claimed, and there’s no sane basis to expect that this murderous rampage will magically cease once our soldiers come home. The idea that the US remains in Iraq in order to torment and dominate Iraqis – rather than to protect innocent civilians from the monstrous cruelty of Islamo-Nazi killers – remains one of the big lies of the anti-war movement.”
Huh? Holy rhetoric Batman. If it weren’t for the American invasion, would there be insurgents? Or, for that matter, foreign fighters aka Al Queda? Maybe these fighters are offing more Iraqi Civilians than Americans. That doesn’t justify the rape/murder of a teen age girl by American forces.
The Iraqi people are fighting back. The notice the brutality by Al Queda. The truth remains that the primary reason these fighters are in Iraq is to fight Americans…if there had not been an invasion, these fighters would be somewhere else.
Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”

Today, November 19, is International Men’s Day. It was started in 1999 by Dr Jerome Teelucksingh, an academic from Port of Spain, Trinidad. November 19 is his father’s birthday. The theme this year is “Giving Boys The Best Possible Start In Life”. With the recent publicity given the scandal at Penn State University, this has a sad irony. Maybe next year will be better.
One thing that happened on November 19 was the Gettysburg Address.To paraphrase the first sentence, this was seven score and eight years ago.
A few months before this, a vicious battle had been fought near Gettysburg, PA. It is widely considered the turning point of the War, the moment when the Union took the upper hand. It came at a horrible price, and a cemetery was built to hold this price.
The ceremony to dedicate the cemetery was held November 19, 1863. The headline speaker was Senator Edward Everett. The President was an afterthought. After it was over, Mr. Everett reportedly told the President that he said more in two minutes than he did in two hours.
The speech by Mr. Lincoln is an American classic. Schoolchildren are forced to memorize it. There are a few legends, many of which are not true. According to The Lincoln Museum , the speech was written on White House stationary, not the back of an envelope. The train ride would have been too bumpy to write. There is also confusion about what happened to the original text that the President read from.
HT to Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. Measured in pixels, the picture of George Custer is 720×666.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A link was posted on facebook to 100 WAYS TO BECOME MORE CONSCIOUS: HOW TO RAISE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. PG looked over the list. There are a few contradictions, but nothing a few squirts of wd40 won’t fix. There are a few sentences written after every title, which you can find if you go to the original feature. 1. Connect with nature – 2. Get your body moving – 3. Simple meditation – 4. Spending time with true friends -5. Have the intention to “raise your consciousness” – 6. Tell the truth – 7. Find and live your purpose – 8. Take conscious control of your decisions – 9. Always be open-minded – 10. Pursue higher intelligence – 11. Treat yourself with respect – 12. Practice forgiveness – 13. Cultivate a “high-performance mind” – 14. Connect through prayer – 15. Challenge your belief system – 16. Befriend like-minded individuals – 17. Pursue a path of spirituality – 18. Express gratitude – 19. Make yourself happy – 20. Act on your desires – 21. Boost your brain power and functioning – 22. Take full control of your lifestyle – 23. Choose empowering beliefs – 24. Avoid physical fighting and abuse – 25. Be aware and accepting of your emotions – 26. Speak compassionately – 27. Think positive, act positive, be positive – 28. Have sex with your partner – 29. Identify with your soul – 30. See perceived faults as a “mirror image” – 31. Expand your horizons – 32. Face your deepest fears – 33. Use powerful incantations – 34. Practice positive affirmations – 35. Be aware of your state of consciousness – 36. Set a positive example for others – 37. Guide others interested in raising their consciousness – 38. Share your unique insight and wisdom – 39. Gain wisdom from others – 40. Keep your ego in check – 41. Practice personal development – 42. Shift your conscious focus – 43. Be energetic – 44. Make healthy dietary changes – 45. Accept others for who they are – 46. Accept and love yourself for who are – 47. Understand your own thought process – 48. Bless everything that happens – 49. Take time for internal reflection – 50. Focus on advancing consciously – 51. Be aware of your breathing – 52. Spend more time with yourself – 53. Listen more often than you speak – 54. Muster up some courage – 55. Always act with compassion – 56. Improve your mental focus – 57. Think rationally and logically – 58. Purify your body – 59. Start a personal journal – 60. Make others laugh – 61. Practice a religion – 62. Respect the beliefs of others – 63. Ask questions about your life – 64. Understand that everything changes – 65. Realize that you are not alone – 66. Push your personal limits – 67. Invest in yourself – 68. Be open to exploring consciousness – 69. Develop a deep relationship – 70. Call upon your spirit guides -71. Clear emotional blocks – 72. Clear out subconscious “cobwebs” – 73. Turn off the T.V. – 74. Read a good book – 75. Expand your creativity – 76. Develop strong people-skills – 77. Allow yourself to be inspired – 78. Be courteous towards others – 79. Attend a spiritual retreat – 80. Form a mastermind group – 81. Be a mediator – 82. Build an accurate model of reality – 83. Be a leader – 84. Travel the world – 85. Be empathetic – 86. Set goals and accomplish them – 87. Try brainwave entrainment – 88. Try self-hypnosis – 89. Develop your chakras – 90. Release your Kundalini energy – 91. Appreciate your surroundings – 92. Bring new life to Earth – 93. Lead a flexible life – 94. Learn from “consciously advanced” individuals – 95. Live a well-balanced life – 96. Consider taking health supplements – 97. Celebrate your accomplishments – 98. Always have positive intentions – 99. Read and recommend 4 Mind 4 Life: Mental Health Tips to others – 100. [This space is intentionally left blank for you to fill in] – 101 – Post this list in a rainbow font, with pictures from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library” .

PG has been the recipient of two messages this week. Both had good intentions. Neither was recieved well. His behavior was not influenced in either case.
Thursday night, PG went to dinner at a chain restaurant … lets call it TeeTee’s. This facility serves a pizza buffet. The quality is acceptable, considering PG’s low standards. The portions are generous, and dessert is provided. This particular location usually involves a wait in line to pay, with someone taking their sweet time explaining an order. It is part of the experience.
On this thursday night, there was a sign on the front door. The logo of TeeTee’s Pizza was at the top. The text said : “We are open Everyday of the year except Thanksgiving and Christmas These we celebrate with Our Lord and our families. Thank you.” PG felt like someone had slapped him in the face, and said you are not welcome here. Go to McDonald’s, heathen!
After driving through rush hour traffic with a growling stomach, PG resisted his first impulse to go somewhere else. He went inside, and waited for the man, ahead of him in line, to explain his carry out order. PG told the very nice cashier that he wanted a buffet and water, and by the way, that yellow sign makes me feel unwanted. The lady said she had not seen the sign.
PG read somewhere that the word LORD was a term for english gentry, and was not a proper translation of the hebrew original. Four hundred years ago, some chauvinistic limey inserted that term into King Jimmy’s translation, and now we are stuck with it. Be that as it may, the third commandment says not to use sacred names in an improper manner. To tell a hungry pizza enthusiast to take his appetite elsewhere would seem to disregard this suggestion.
One of the holidays mentioned was Thanksgiving. The first Turkey day involved Native Americans, many of whom have regrets about welcoming the European invasion. Do these original Americans feel Yahweh is “Our Lord”? Or does TeeTee’s not care about anyone who is not a Jesus worshiper?
There was another paving stone, on the road to hell, coated with good intentions. PG participates in the activities of a group of “outdoor enthusiasts”. This group is becoming more popular, and wonders how to deal with all the enthusiasm. An out of town enthusiast weighed in on the proceedings, and felt it was essential that the Atlanta enthusiasts use a process called consensus. (In spanish, the opposite of con is sin. Perhaps someone needs to take a sin census.)
PG made the mistake of reading the facebook discussion, and compounded his error by making a comment. : “Maybe we have a consensus not to use consensus. If radical individuality is the model for the individuals here, then maybe our group can be exception. Maybe as we move forward we should adopt some of your ideas. However, I think we should have confidence in ourselves enough to know that a process that works for other tribes might not be right for us. “
“you all can do whatever you want. You can call yourself a radical faerie tribe that is not consensus based. You can also call a rose a daisy all day long. Your right to do it does not change the fact that it is a blatant misnomer and efforts to dissolve these essential principles from the greater social movement only serve to undermine the entire movement itself.” These we celebrate with our lord and our families. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.

The other day, PG stopped by a site, and saw a story about Suicidal Goldfish. This facility has several new stories every day, which is a good reason to stop by. You never know when you are going to want to steal something. Today, the featured presentation was 11 Brutally Honest Pick Up Lines . It is presented for your enjoyment today. As an extra bonus, there will be the comment with PU line number 12. The ads at thought catalog were ATT, State Farm Insurance, and socks from American Apparel. Pictures by chamblee54. 1. Hi. You may not know me but I certainly know you. We have 37 mutual friends on Facebook so there’s a chance we might actually be compatible as lovers or, at the very least, good friends. I also follow you on Twitter and think you’re super funny. So what do you say? Wanna bone? I mean, every time I lurk you, it feels like we’re having sex so it wouldn’t be that big of a stretch. 2. I can’t talk to you without wondering what you look like naked. It’s sort of a problem. Can I just please see you naked? Please? I don’t want to beg but I will. Okay, I’m begging. Seeing you naked and allowing me to do things to your genitalia would bring me so much joy. All you would have to do is lay there. Promise. 3. I’ve been rejected twice in this bar already and you’re kind of my last resort. When I walked in here, I saw you and thought to myself, “I’ll take them home if there is absolutely no one else.” So… your place or mine?! 4. Yo! I haven’t had sex in six months and it’s put me in a really weird head space. My friends say that I just need a random person to screw me back to life. Could you be that random person for me? Could you screw me back to life? 5. I have a really big penis. You won’t regret this. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Wait, I’m not a hooker. 6. A friend of a friend slept with you and gave rave reviews. I was interested in seeing what all the hype was about. So can I get a ticket to the show or what? 7. Sometimes I cry after sex and sometimes I say I love you when I’m about to orgasm but that’s because I love anything and anyone when I’m on the verge of climaxing. I love famine and poverty and drug epidemics and wars and stuff. After I’ve finished, I’ll smile meekly at you and be like, “JK? Get out of my bed.” So other than the tears and “I love you” I think I’m a really special person and you’d be lucky to sleep with someone like me. 8. I’m going to go up to you and say, “Are you from Tennessee? Because you’re the only ten I see?” And right when I see your smile turn into a look of disgust, I’ll tell you, “JUST KIDDING. Can you imagine if I was serious? Can you imagine if I were one of those cheesy people who said that in earnest? Those people do exist though. It’s so weird. Anyway, I actually do think you’re beautiful. Do you want to come home with me?” 9. I know we’re supposed to sit here and drink for a few hours and flirt and do the whole song and dance. But the thing is that I’m tired and I have to be up for work in 7 hours. I can only probably have sex with you for 25 minutes, 30 max. So do you mind just skipping the whole thing and just coming home with me? I’d really appreciate that. You’d be doing me like a huge favor. Consider it like a birthday present. 10. I don’t give head. My favorite color is blue. My dad hit me once when I was five. I’m a pretty good kisser and my penis is of average length. Jealousss? Who wants some of this? I’m easy. 11. My body may look good in this outfit but I’m actually pretty chunky. And I have a big zit on my back right now but if we do it with the lights off, I promise you won’t notice a thing. 12. I know you fuck a lot of black guys and probz got a loose puss/butthole but I pretty much cum the moment I put it in so in a crazy, cosmic turn of events I am the bad guy and you’re not a slut. You’re welcome. // what does “fucking a lot of black guys” have to do with anything // You don’t actually need the “black guys have big dicks” stereotype explained to you, do you? // no, thank you. I just don’t think including that stereotype was necessary for explaining their point.

Matt Taibbi writes good stuff. (The surname is pronounced TY bee. This sounds like the name of an island off the Georgia coast.) During the financial holocaust, he described in pornographic detail the rape of the american consumer. In the most recent, paywall protected (irony alert) issue of Rolling Stone, he has a piece How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests.
On a certain level, the OWS movement is about income inequality. Mr. Taibbi goes a bit below the surface, and sees questions about the goals and values of American life. Are we meant to be the people who buy sandwiches made with wonder bread? Is it really important pay billions of dollars on football stadiums? Will the latest fashions make you happy?
At this point, we insert a quote from the original piece. “This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become. If there is such a thing as going on strike from one’s own culture, this is it. And by being so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation, it’s flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left.”
Yesterday, PG listened to a few minutes of the Rush Limbaugh show. He compared the OWS crowd to the protests of the sixties. Mr. Limbaugh said that the sixties people were protesting a war, where people were getting drafted to die. To him, this was more legitimate than complaining about college loans, and the one percent.
This is rather ironic to someone who was in high school in 1967. At that time, the war protesters were denounced as filthy communists. The war was seen as the duty of a “boy” old enough to hold a rifle. To hear a “conservative” saying that the sixties protesters were more justified than today’s edition is amazing. That oxycontin must be pretty good.
There is a companion piece to the Mr. Taibbi’s commentary. It was also published 11-11-11. The title is Penn State, my final loss of faith.
As you may have heard, there is a nasty scandal involving Penn State University, and the almighty football program. Thomas L. Day, the author of this feature, says “I have fully lost faith in the leadership of my parents’ generation.” He is talking about, among other things, college football and the Jesus worship church. Using those institutions as a “faith foundation” is building your house on sand.
College football is corrupt. It hires high school students. They get a scholarship in exchange for countless hours of practice, and playing a violent, dangerous game. The schools, television networks, and beer pushers make millions of dollars. After their eligibility is used up, the players are cast aside.
The Jesus worship church is a scheme for life after death. The worshipers are verbally abused by the preachers. A book compiled by a fourth century Catholic committee is considered “the word of G-d”. Is it any wonder that many have lost faith in our system?
The pictures were taken June 29, 2009. A section of a parking deck collapsed near Georgia Tech.

What follows is a double repost . Both features deal in what might be termed commodity wisdom. This sort of verbiage is good for conversation. Some people will be impressed. PG remembers a phrase from a record… the lonely man was blessed with wisdom to the point of desperation. Pictures are from The Library of Congress .
There is a post at listserve today about the ten items you should never discuss on the internet. PG is going to take this as a challenge, and try to say something rude about all ten. Today is International Mens Day, and we all know that real men have lots of opinions. (IMD is November 19).
01 Religion On the day PG was born, his father called the church choir director, at 6am, to sign PG up. The choir director, a gentleman named Ray Smathers, went back to sleep. PG thinks that Mr. Smathers had the right idea.
02 Origins of Man Gorillas and chimpanzees are embarrassed by people.
03 Politics A man is drowning fifty feet offshore. A democrat throws seventy five feet of rope, and then doesn’t tie it to anything. A republican throws twenty five feet of rope, and says that swimming to the rope will build character.
04 The Holocaust What Hitler did sixty five years ago does not justify dropping white phosphorous on children in Gaza today.
05 Gun Control A prominent politician in Georgia recently took some pills, and called his mother. The prominent politician said he was killing himself. If the prominent politician had used a gun, he would have succeeded.
06 Abortion PG has never had an abortion.
07 Race Relations PG does not like people who do not like PG.
08 Jesus Christ What Jesus worshipers call Jesus is a man made spirit, that has little in common with the historic figure. We know little about the man in Palestine two thousand years ago. The spirit called Jesus is a source of misery to PG.
09 Homosexuality If you have to ask, do you really need to know?
10 The Middle East If there was no oil there, would anyone care?

Yesterday, after exploring east atlanta, PG and Uzi went to dinner. They alternate between Piccadilly and S&S , and this was a Piccadilly week. PG always thinks of the antique store called Pick a Dilly. That might describe some of the clientele at this place.
Uzi was telling a story about Lenny. Lenny was a friend of Uzi who had checked out of the hotel a few years ago. Lenny was inclined towards a philosophical view of things, and Uzi was telling about how he tried to write all these down. The only trouble was…well, one of the troubles was…that Lenny never did understand the concept of the tab key, and would type the quote, the source, and any other information into one cell of a database. PG had time on his hands, and offered to try and straighten out the mess.
“Man has two antagonists, himself and the exterior world. A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth . People we don’t know are only characters in the human comedy, we are the tragedians. “AH
PG suspects that this would be Aldous Huxley. Mr. Huxley was a favorite of Lenny. In the quote website that PG found later, there were hundreds of quotes from Mr. Huxley. Aldous Huxley made one crucial mistake. Or maybe it wasn’t. He died on November 22, 1963. That is the day that John Kennedy rode past the grassy knoll into eternity. If the goal of Aldous Huxley was to exit stage right as quietly as possible, then that was the day to do it.
“America is a mistake , a giant mistake ! “Sigmund Freud
“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms .” Aristotle
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism , since it is the merger of state and corporate power .” Benito Mussolini Mr. Mussolini was an underrated dictator. His fashion sense was unmatched. He was not troubled with false modesty. He made the trains run on time.
“When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet , or novel , or poem is making a great commotion you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public”.Arthur Schopenhauer Mr. Schopenhauer worked in an era when the written word was the only game in town. Publishing books was still a cumbersome novelty. What he would make of today’s medium-is-the-message carnival can only be imagined.
“Illusion – a false perception or conception of what one sees , where one is …. delusion – persistent belief not substantiated by sensory evidence . Life’s illusions are the most beautiful things in it . ” Balzac PG is not wired for languages, and does well to read english. He also suspects tampering by the translator .
“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it .” Maurice Chevalier When PG heard this quote, it spoke of buying a car. Perhaps this is an essential difference between the French and the Americans.
“There nearly always is method in madness . It’s what drives men mad , being methodical .” G K Chesterton One wonders if Mr. Chesterton knew many methodists.
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men—and the fools know it .” O.W.Homes
” You should never wrestle with a pig. You will only get dirty, and the pig will enjoy it.” PG was all set to give credit for this to Mark Twain, who would have accepted it. However, he decided to look in Google. It is credited to several people, including George Bernard Shaw.
An alternative quote was “Never teach a pig to sing”. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.” This does not consider the number of famous vocalists who develop weight problems.
“Pearls before swine” . This is from a speech that Jesus made. It was also a one line triumph for Dorothy Parker. Miss Parker entered a room before another lady, who said “age before beauty”. Miss Parker turned around and said, “Pearls before Swine”.
“Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show .” Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand won an oscar, with a character based on her.

Around this time 147 years ago, Atlanta was on fire. General Sherman was preparing for his March to the sea, and wanted to destroy anything of value in the city. The fire is reported as being on 11-15 of November, depending on what source you use.
The November fire was the second great fire in Atlanta that year. On September 2, the city was conquered by the Union Army. The fleeing Confederates blew up a munitions depot, and set a large part of the city on fire. This is the fire the Scarlet O’Hara flees in “Gone With The Wind”.
After a series of bloody battles, the city was shelled by Yankee forces for forty days. There were many civilian casualties. General Sherman was tired of the war, angry at Atlanta, and ready for action. This is despite the fact that many in Atlanta were opposed to secession.
Click here to hear a lecture by Marc Wortman at the Atlanta History Center. Mr Wortman is the author of “The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta”. The hour of talk is fascinating. The pictures, with one exception, are from Shorpy. (Shorpy got them from The Library of Congress ) The 1864 map is from a collection of images at Georgia State University. This is a repost .

Thought Catalog was in the bookmarks collection, and PG did not know how it got there. This is not unusual. What was unusual was clicking on the link, and the first story to come up is ” My Childhood Was Marred By Suicidal Goldfish”. The good news is, the writer is still in New Jersey, and has not moved to Atlanta. At least that we know about.
The story is about a person … “Caitlin successfully pretends to be a writer in both the Bronx, and the deepest, darkest, most rural parts of New Jersey. She also enjoys floral prints immensely. You can follow her on Twitter @heycvh. “ … who was traumatized because a pet fish was knocked onto the carpet by a cat. The fish did not ask the cat to help, at least that humans were aware of. The second incident of piscean demise was at a festival, when a fidh was spilled out of a cup and into the street. This is what goes for tough love in New Jersey.
PG left a comment. “I was cleaning out my bookmark folder, and I saw thought catalog. I wondered what it was. I opened it, and saw the headline ” My Childhood Was Marred By Suicidal Goldfish” Against my better judgement, I read the story. This lady must have a charmed life, even in New Jersey, if this is the worst thing that has happened to her. The comment got two replies. An hour later, Matt Good said “Seriously?”, and guest said “you sound fun”. ”
The story advertised home depot and target. It was above the story of a 19yo who is ordered to go to an AA meeting by a judge. His twitter handle is @barf_city. Something says AA might not be the answer. His last coherent tweet: “The Lohan family is a classic example of what happens when your great great grandmother dies with nothing but gypsy debt to her name.”
Thought Catalog has a ten point list on the “about” page. It sounds pretty good, until you get to point five: “5. Reading Thought Catalog will probably make you more interesting. You’re going to find out about stuff here you won’t see in the mainstream media. Thought Catalog will open new perspectives.” Anyone who uses the phrase “mainstream media” is probably a republican.
The editor of Thought Catalog is a man named Ryan O’Connell. He wrote two of the features on the front page, which is sponsored by Downey fabric softener. His last repeatable tweet was “I’ve had orgasms that lasted longer than Kim Kardashian’s marriage. #beinggayisgay”. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress .

There is a doozie of a story about cocaine in thestranger.(HT to dangerousminds) There are few good things to say about the current situation, and even fewer “good guys”. The producers, the smugglers, the money lenders, the police, and the consumer all have bloody hands.
The focus of the story is a substance called Levamisole, an agent used to cut the drug. Levamisole is not detectable by the “bleach test”, and looks like pure coke. The original use of Levamisole is deworming livestock. Ingestion by humans can cause immune system problems.
There are tests available to detect Lavamisole. However, the test kits are considered drug paraphernalia. It seems like the government would rather poison cocaine users than help them obtain a pure product.
The three part series needs to be read in its entirety to get the whole story. Part two is especially horrific. It tells the story of “Diego”, as he works in the coca fields and factories. Also interesting is the way the cocaine trade has evolved over the years. The big cartels, which imported through the Caribbean, have been broken up. They have been replaced by thousands of smaller producers, which import through Mexico. With the vast amounts of money involved, the product cannot be stopped.
One sentence in particular stands out. “The big problem for the narco-capitalists in Colombia, Corva explains, wasn’t so much how to get the drugs north as how to get the cash back south.” NAFTA and banking deregulation has made the flow of money south much easier. So much of the currency that America is borrowing to fuel our economy winds up in South America. ( China, a source of much of the capital in our borrow and spend economy, reportedly produces much of the Lavamisole. )
PG has never been fond of cocaine. He has known others who are, and has seen some horrible behavior as a result. The US government appears to be making the situation worse, and possibly profiting from the cocaine trade. This is a repost .