Ok. Frequent contibutor and Veteran’s Affairs Editor “Mutt” suggests I intrude here with some insane ramblings to the purpose of stirring the pot which I believe loosely translate to “Puleeeeze, let’s give Hillary/Obama a break!” This causes me great discomfort because I must confront the idea of writing about something not that bores the crap out of me (easy to write about! So many possibilities!), but that actually interests me (hard! So few possibilities.) Even the Jazz-Lakers game with which my attention is momentarily shared reminds me slightly of Hillary/Obama: let’s cut through this geek stuff and get to the finals (Pistons-Lakers/ McCain-Obama). It’s only the unimaginative sports fan or partisan fanatic who still actually cares about these quarter-final matchups in the NBA or about the media-driven denoument of the primary process. So in that spirit, how ’bout a fast paced “3 dot” column, the favorite cop-out of print columnists everywhere who can’t think of any single subject worth writing an entire piece about?
For example, did you know there existed a new acronym classification defining a generational demographic? It’s called “nuppie” and I believe that stand for Nomadic Urban Professional, educated entrepeneurs who can’t afford rent or mortgages, or who choose not to pay them, and are astute enough to take advantage of mobile technology. There’s an array of miniaturized cyber products at our disposal…WiFi, laptops, Mp3 players, BlackBerries, etc…to allow the intrepid information trader to ride fast and hard. And since “info-tainment” is the U.S.’s #1 product, apparently a whole new set of dockers-wearing Kerouac’s and Cassidy’s are prowling today’s high tech hobo jungles making a buck or two off their wits and their cyber skills. Beats timing your freight train hopping to the Spokane apple harvest I suppose, although not nearly as romantic. There’s even a new furniture pod that appeals to this new class of nomads (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/casulo_an_entir.php). A few years back, I did a morning drive radio show in Portland, Oregon for 6 months without ever leaving Alpine nor having ever set foot in Portland. And I thought that was pretty cool. But now the sky’s the limit. Hit the road with your Airstream, your Casulo, and your BlackBerry and make a hundred grand selling nutritional supplements or day trading on-line. Roatan ( http://www.roatanonline.com/) here I come…
Meanwhile back on earth, check out the tough love comments here (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080507-1508-extradition.html) concerning the Carmel Valley mother heading back to Michigan complete her sentence on drug trafficking charges of 34 years ago. LeFevre is the poster child for the ridiculousness of drug criminalization and the concept of rehabilitation. It’s clear that life in the ‘burbs on the lamb offers far greater chances for redemption than 10-20 inside our squalid Prison Industrial Complex…
Meanwhile, Reason magazine offers a detailed indictment ( http://www.reason.com/news/show/125438.html ) of the dishonesty of the War on Terror and it’s funding. Look, who really belongs in prison, LeFevre of Bush?…
Finally, if the Nuppie lifestyle really appeals to you (as it does me), maybe you can help pad these statistics (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-walkaway11-2008may11,0,7636846.story ). Is there a sadder testimonial to this gas guzzling, McMansion, consumer driven aylum we live in than this???
See you in Spokane in September….
between the Reason piece & the self righteous creeps howlin for lefevre’s blood, Im hopin an asteroid cleans this ugly zoo out…..
Nothin new in livin in a truck, tho- did it forever, it seems. garages, basements (cot near the furnace & Vt winters dont bother) and even a closet Ive called home, to no ill effect. but I do remember pullin in my garage home one 3am, and rollin off the bike into my bunk….next am I woke up, laid there, thinkin: if I was 22, this would be HEAVEN……but I was at least 32, and i figured maybe i should have an actual apartment…….
Things have gotten a lot harder- much more time is needed to get enough $ to pay rent. When I got back from overseas, in the end of the 60’s & early 70’s, rent, food, everyhing was cheap & available. That left time to live….there was a middle class & prosperity, then. Thom Hartman, who usta have a show on 1360, had an interesting thesis: the peak of middle class….surplus? came in the 1760s-80s, then again starting in the late 50’s, on thru til Reagan. Both times people had breathing space to examine thier lot, both times led to serious upheaval, as folks figured they were getting screwed, or at least, things could be better.
it was Reagans job to dismantle the middle class for that very reason, a project which has continued unabated right up to today…..
Comment by mutt — Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
But, but, but Stacy, prisons are an investment opportunity now. What, you’re not into “free markets?”
Comment by nunya — Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
say, what was the name of the fellow you had on who tallked about oil last week? he must have a website, or published pieces I can find on the net? thx
Comment by mutt — Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
This can not bring any of the human loss back regardless and my condolences; to all no matter where they lived to all that were killed, injured, and harmed.
A Hydrogen generator can make enough Hydrogen to fill 4 fuel cells or Hydrogen engine cars a day off of solar or wind turbine zero pollution generated. That is equal to $320 a day in gas at present gas prices. Over one year the cost of buying the gas is $116,000.00 the H6M cost ranges from $200,000.00 - $225,000.00 depending on the added features. You figure it out, pay off is less then 24 months. The cost of the oil war so far $3,000,000,000,000.00 /200,000 =1,500,000 H6M could have been purchased filling 6,000,000 cars a day for EVER, by investing in this rather then the oil wars look at what we could have had. In stead of pissing the 3 trillion dollars away to bush’s friends look at what we could be doing. Lets now plug $5-$10 for a fill up of hydrogen seeing that would have been the best use of the 3 trillion dollars buying 1,500,000 hydrogen generators seeing we have not gotten shit for bush’s oil wars. These hydrogen generators could have created free health care as a start with this deal and completely out of our national debt in fewer then 20 years. Like any technology it will always improve and become cheaper once people start using it.
So do you understand who are the real terrorist can you say Nancy Pelosi, the republicans, and big oil. Now you know what you could have gotten for that 3 trillon dollars and impeachment is off the table
Comment by Jesse east county — Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 5:45 am
In trying to stick to your new theme I find most all subjects presented have their place stuck in the back receses of most minds, First, reading the comments left by the Sign on S.D. site on that most unfortunate gal being sent back to serve time on a 35 year old crime she commited while at the age of 19. I guess I wasn’t shocked at some of the posted comments by our fine thinking law and order citizens here in the wooded hollows of southern Californian Applachia When living in North Carolina in the Smokies, I expected most of the locals to think in this way, but after fifteen years since I was there the citizenry there has evolved where as the people here have regresed. I hate to throw a blanket over a whole group of people but compared to the citizenry of northern California We are Hicks and quite illeterate. In 1974 sold my TEXACO station and premium was going for 68.9 per gal. the diesel I bought testerday was $4.59.9 what a crock of shit.
Comment by knifemaster — Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 9:46 am
I read that Jenna Bush is getting married!
That reminded me of the joke McCain told a few years ago about her - http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
“Why is Jenna Bush so stupid? Because her father is George Bush!”
I may be mis-remembering McCain’s exact joke, I admit, but I’m sure he apologized for telling it afterwards.
Comment by goodguy — Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
Well Stacy, if you actually ever DO come up here to the real Spokane, I’ll buy you dinner.
Comment by Sammy — Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Hey, what about me don’t I count?
Comment by knifemaster — Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 3:06 pm
Ldies & Gentlemen…..may I present! The Republican of the Week!!!!!~ TaDAHHHHH! http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1077
Say, Knifemaster- its my understanding hydrogen will work as a stationary power source but be essentially useless as an auto fuel. Reason: Iceland. The fiends. No, Iceland has/had 4 busses in its major city that run off of hydrogen fuel (geothermal supplies the massive amts of electricity for the electrolysis) Anyhow, each fillup gives the bus a range of 120 odd miles. So far, so good. The FUEL TANK wieghs 2.5 tons!
So, unless you have essentially free power to make the hydrogen, and a car with a couple of tons tied up in just containing it, well, it dosnt pencil out.
Makes more sense if you can make it cheaply, or with less energy than you get out of it, and it runs something stationary.
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 5:37 am
I have been checking out what the kooks on signonsandiego have been saying about any story lately. Like the Rachel Silva case as well. Look, you gotta be really naive to trust law enforcement in general, but to accept their word in this city (and county) as the final word is just plain stupidity. We know who’s hands are washing who’s and in this city, the DA will ALWAYS cover for the police unless the police officer in question if Greg Pyer, who murdered Cara Knott (and almost got away with it had it not been for a pattern he had established of pulling over nubiles and attempting that which he actually did the night he killed Knott). Let us not mention that within the past 7 years or so, there had been a problem with police impersonators robbing people that they tricked into pulling over. Let us also not mention that when Rachel Silva and her son got shot at, the police officer in this case, was one: off duty and two: a fucking adult. You don’t need to shoot at someone and I guarantee if this was joe citizen, he would fry and the people who condemn Silva would most likely be the same people condemning this “street thug” for shooting a “poor mother who decided to have a few drinks that night.”
Then we get to the comments on LeFevre. They have only convinced me that we, as a country, are just getting much stupider by the day. Look, stop pretending that life exists in a vaccuum and that every criminal has to pay their penalty. In this one case (and many others) the penalty is way too stiff. Starting in that time, law enforcement wasn’t trying to impose stiffer penalties because they thought the criminals deserved it. No, they only did it because it was bait to turn in someone higher up the chain then you. It’s why guys in the MOB started turning rat. You can get the penalty significantly reduced…all you gotta do is give up a name. She didn’t (probably because she worried about getting killed if she turned in someone bigger) and she got 10-20 years because of it. All the comments on that board are either about how horrible she is for selling heroin or they say how horrible she is for keeping this secret forever. Well, why don’t we punish her for 30+ years of good behavior by throwing her in the Michigan State Pokey and let her serve her time separating her from her family and her son who’s still in high school? Look, the world ain’t black and white and things like this are the reason for looking at things in a case by case basis.
The reporting at the U-T has always had a con-tilt. That never really bothered me. I mean, it didn’t until they ceased looking for the truth in stories. They take law enforcement’s word for it and don’t really question anything. Sure, they gave us the Randy Cunningham story(and when it came out, local conservative types screamed it was a witch hunt), but what have they done that’s ground breaking since then besides stick their tongues up Jerry Sander’s bum? The local media as a whole is ridiculous. Unless it’s Bob Kittle fighting with Mike Aguirre, we get absolutely no clashes between the press and city hall. Tell me, in what city does that happen? (even though Stacy’g blog was not political, it kinda was)
Keep it real.
Comment by BigJ — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 6:26 am
Yes….profits from prisons….perhaps noted political prisoner- now out, a rarity- Ray can shed some light, as he was once part of the prison-industrial complex….
http://home.earthlink.net/~neoludd/armed.htm
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 7:13 am
So how about that listener party and/or happy hour?
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 8:36 am
To all who read mutt’s republican of the week, if you scroll down and look at the left column, there’s our own former homosexual James Hartline: http://hartline08.com/ He is running for seat 3 in the San Diego City Council. He told me that we liberals use abortion as a method of birth control and we’re gay lovers, to which I answered, “we welcome you with open arms.”
I would like to nominate him as next week’s Republican of the Week. Anyone want to second my motion? mutt, what do you say?
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-21995—,00.html
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, Michigan 48909
PHONE: (517) 373-3400
PHONE: (517) 335-7858 - Constituent Services
FAX:(517) 335-6863
Please write to Governor Granholm and ask that she pardon LeFevre.
Faxes are great. You may be able to track down her email at the above link.
Comment by Virginia M — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
I would like to nominate him as next week’s Republican of the Week. Anyone want to second my motion? mutt, what do you say?
heck yeah! We dont have to travel far afield to find nasty wingnuts. he’s “reformed” is he?
Abortion as birth control? sorta like turning you car upside down to change the oil, but he is running up against an idea I had forever: taco truck sized vasectomy/ligation vans, going around nieghborhoods on a regular route…. lets add first trimester abortion capabilities! itll have a snappy jingle, so you hear it comin, like ice cream trucks….”Dont Fear the Reaper”?
Rather than the customers paying for the service, the customers will GET paid- tuition- trade school, liberal arts, whatever. Cash? Gold plated hubcaps?? Cell phone minutes? Dont care, whatever gets them in the door……..
We’ll credit Rep. Wingnut with the idea……..
and what about this meetup?? Huh? Huh??
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 1:18 pm
Re: Post 9 - mutt’s latest repug of the week; and Post 13 - “I would like to nominate [James Hartline] as next week’s Republican of the Week.”
I hereby second the motion!! How about it mutt?
Comment by goodguy — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
since Stacey blogged thisentry is a “fast paced three dot blog”… …i can think of nothing faster paced than… …
Roller Derby, people. This Saturday. Support Wayward Women! See modern day Walkyries
hurtling past like tattooed thunder! gasp in awe as Steely Jan, Aunt Flo, Amber Ale and the entire kinetic coven `commit wheeled , savage Art! The true Dottirs of Boadicea, and Diana!
Bare knuckeled Emma Goldmans , fiery and untameable!!!
And CUUUUUUUTE!!! ( except for Kiki Diaz, who sez:”Do I look like a fuckin kitten to YOU?”)
http://derbydolls.com/sd/index.html
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Stacy, why is your show not streaming again?
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
I want to take this oppurtunity to thank Tim from Normal Heights for calling in today. Although always entertaining today he was in top funny form. I loved his “story” about Hillary campaigning to the inbred population of West Virginny and Bill in the jug(two great big ‘ol__) band. I nearly had to pull over on El Cajon Blvd ion North Park I was laughing so hard.
And I second the motion to have a listener party. I’ll take off work if I have too. Liars Club would be fine with me, I’ll drive from North Park to Alpine…
Comment by Justin — Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Ode to a dead floating fish wrap
By Carpy Catfish
Oh! Odious! is the smell of nitrogenous decay!
That floats up the front news pages of May
Wasted resource on the fleeting fate of a sticking fish?
Cause errant penguin more gallantly tantalizes noble breasts?
Could it be as Descartes was once profound to say:
I think, I thought, therefore I was
That floating fish thus proves transcendence.
Comment by Carpy Catfish — Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 8:18 am
Mutt, you’re a genius!
I love the “taco truck sized vasectomy/ligation vans, going around nieghborhoods on a regular route…. lets add first trimester abortion capabilities! itll have a snappy jingle, so you hear it comin, like ice cream trucks….”Dont Fear the Reaper”? I’m dying over the, “the customers will GET paid- tuition- trade school, liberal arts, whatever. Cash? Gold plated hubcaps?? Cell phone minutes? Dont care, whatever gets them in the door……..
We’ll credit Rep. Wingnut with the idea……..”
I’ll be giggling about this all day, oh, and your roller-derby description too. It makes even me want to go see the spectacle!
Thanks mutt!
Comment by Lorelei — Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 9:40 am
Att; Mutt—I was not the one who was commenting on Hydro. fuel I believe i was Jesse of east co. I like you came to the conclusion a long time ago Hydro. was not feasable at this time as reported in the film “Who Killed the Electric car”. A year ago While watching the series “The Green” on sundance I became interested in converting an older diesel car to run on waste vegetable oil. after much internetting I bought an old Mercedes 240 D, ordered a kit from an outfit called Gresecar (www.greasecar.com) Installed it in a week and have been running it for about free. Having been in the resturant business, I still had access to waste veggi oil so not a problem. Back in the day, we all had victory gardens of some sort and because of the times we live in today, just got through putting in my Rescission garden and am harvesting my own organic veggies. Those of you who are interested in learning about ways to go Green, go to the tube on Tuesday nights at 9:00 PM and wasch the series “The Green” on Sundance channel. You’ll find things you can do easily and without much expense and contribute to saving the planet.
Comment by knifemaster — Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 10:54 am
Bonus Rethug of the Week. I remember this one, as I remember Savimbi, & the laugh out loud stupid canonization of this thug by repub front outfits like Citizens for America, & the CWA. We USED to support Holden Roberto back then, who, like Savimbi, boasted of taking no prisoners alive. Savimbi was then a boogieman, a Maoist! A commalnit fiend!!
Then he caught- and ate, it is said- Roberto. In the blink of an eye, he was the Abe Lincoln of Angola.
Same sort of blatant history rewrites as we see today. Same pinheads turning on a dime- as long as peasants were being butchered, conservatism was on the march- as who are so easily lead today. lapel pins were a big fetish item then, too.
Now this thug is a top Mccain advisor………..
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/05/mccain-and-char.html#more
Comment by mutt — Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Stacy:
I write this as friend.
The fact that the recording of your meltdown was broadcast was, in the long term, to your benefit—irrespective of the short term. You need to see yourself as others do—in all aspects of complexity—including the ugly.
I do not know you personally but have listened to your show for about six months (Air America and now 1700AM). I can see you have enormous strengths and therefore likely strong weaknesses as well.
Irrespective of what happens to you and your show, it seems, you owe yourself a break. Like many in battle, you get caught up in the emotional turmoil of good versus bad, or some kind of violent display.
Contrition is an act you now need to learn and embrace. Many of us in San Diego are counting on you because we have so few sources of getting the message.
Personally I hope you really did feel embarrassed and humility—because without such capacity you will lack enough humanity to get to the point of great effect you may still have to offer.
Troubled True Believer
Comment by Trouble True — Wednesday, May 14, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
The Hydro cell thing is a joke. Affordable technology and infrastructure are so far off that it’s not worth it. Basically, hydrogen was a way to get us to stop asking about electric cars. I am so glad that only responsible people run auto and energy companies. Who knows what would happen if truly evil people were in control.
Comment by BigJ — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 5:32 am
dear Troubeled True Believer.
your signature says it all.
Banish your troubles. Try some scepticism! Its FUN! Healthy!! Saves big $……
the piece was a SATIRE………it was radio!
sigh.
I want rocket wings, as featured in todays Fishwrap……..
Comment by mutt — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 7:41 am
Speaking of electric (& hybrid) cars…
http://gm-volt.com/2008/05/14/big-news-from-bob-lutz-first-chevy-volt-prototype-hits-the-road-and-gets-40-miles-electric/
Comment by goodguy — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 7:58 am
Dear Trouble True: Perhaps it is not my place to respond to this, but you need to listen to Stacy more often. The whole thing was a joke. He was pretending to be like Bill O’Reilly. If you listened more you would know that Stacy makes fun of people, including himself.
Comment by Lorelei — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 9:02 am
He was pretending to be like Bill O’Reilly.
Hi Lorelei, I missed that one. Should I be glad? What was the rant about? I have been missing since I am at work in that time frame and sometimes the streaming is not working.
Plus I always seem to tune in during the kick Hillary around segment.
Comment by Virginia M — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 10:42 am
I have the suspicion that Troubled True is attempting to engage in a bit of satire, since it seems impossible that anyone who has actually “listened to your show for about six months” would not realize that the bit was a take-off on an O’Reilly meltdown.
I sure wish I could hear the bit myself. Sounds like it was hilarious. I am so tired of getting in my car after 5pm and hearing that Stacy is yet again not on because of minor league baseball, a financial show, or whatever.
Comment by goodguy — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 11:20 am
OK folks, looks like the Supreme Court decision to strike down the gay marriage ban ensures that the religous righties will vote in the upcoming election in just two short weeks. They’ll to be voting for other crazy people just like themselves and next week’s Repug of the Week James Hartline http://hartline08.com/ — and they’re angry. This means that we need to get out and vote as well.
And don’t say, “it’s just a primary.” These votes count in so many ways. For example, in the 52nd distict we have a wonderful candidate in Mike Lumpkin, and he is being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Committee (DCCC) for funding for the general election in November. The more votes he gets the more money his campaign will receive from them for the general election in November. We all want change, so let’s go out and vote!
If you’re not registered to vote, you have until the 19th of this month.
We really need to show those nasty repuglicans who’s boss for a change!
Comment by Lorelei — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
Mighty are the board chops of Jorge……..but can he do THIS to Stacy’s cubicle rant????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE
Comment by mutt — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
Yo; Goodguy, went to the last Earth fair and saw a converted 1932 Rolls to electric. It had six golf cart batteries and it was able to get45 miles to the charge traveling at 70 mph, so whats the big deal from GM? Have you watched “Who Killed the Electric Car” it had the EV1 and 2 getting 125 miles per charge with head jerking acceleration, also check out the Tessla roadster 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds, sure it’s a $100,000.00 car but their getting cheaper and it’s a plug in.
Comment by knifemaster — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
The Hydro cell thing is a joke. Affordable technology and infrastructure are so far off that it’s not worth it. Basically, hydrogen was a way to get us to stop asking about electric cars. I am so glad that only responsible people run auto and energy companies. Who knows what would happen if truly evil people were in control.
Comment by BigJ — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 5:32 am
The joke is the 3 trillion we pissed away in Iraq puff all gone except the first payment. That’s the fucking joke sport 3 trillion gone puff that is so fucking funny. Plus taking in the ass at the fucking gas pump that’s the joke. No new taxes that the fucking joke. The last fucking 7 years with bush that’s the fucking joke. You have no choices now sport because that the fucking joke!!!
Comment by Jesse east county — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
The Hydro cell thing is a joke. Affordable technology and infrastructure are so far off that it’s not worth it. Basically, hydrogen was a way to get us to stop asking about electric cars. I am so glad that only responsible people run auto and energy companies. Who knows what would happen if truly evil people were in control.
Comment by BigJ — Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 5:32 am
Mr. Big Joke I sell hydrogen generators 80% of the ones I sell have a PAYOFF in 24 months or less the other 20% Pay off is at 32 months. The reason it takes the last 20% to Payoff in the extra 8 months they do not use its full capacity. Mr. Big Joke the caveat is that is when gasoline and energy cost were at $3.00 a gallon. Now you can do the adjustment by factoring in the 25% cost of energy increase.
Mr. Big Joke I take by your sound knowledge of alternative energy that global warming is a joke also. You see when you piss a way 3 trillion dollars on a corporate war like Iraq that can only benefit the oil terrorist. While the dim-witted pathetic American public lack the minimal mental skills to see through the Bush Administration total bull shit. The asinine American public waving the gad dam American flags while repeating the mindless republican talking point like “freedom isn’t free” but the funny thing is the oil companies are getting a free ride. Freedom isn’t free, dam right when the drop 3 trillion on the wet dream in Iraq and now every man, women, and child in the United States have a $30,000.00 obligation placed on them by Bush and the oil terrorist.
Comment by Jesse east county — Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 7:03 am
Can someone in the know fill me in about Spokane? Has Stacy accepted a new position?
Comment by Virginia M — Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 8:25 am
Dear Stacy Taylor:
I heard the audio recording of your anger tirade thee other day. I’m sorry to see that you are suffering so.
I do not know what Great Spirit you communicate with, hopefully on a daily basis, but you seem to be investing energy in some negative feedback loops—resentments, emotional or intellectual attachments, presumptions and attitudes.
Even though I do not think I am alcoholic enough to quit drinking completely, nor am I brainwashed to think AA has all the answers, I still occasionally go to an AA meeting because it is refreshing to hear people talk about their attitude of gratitude. It is assuring that I was not the only one to thought the world owed me something as I made a jackass ought of myself presuming so.
Bad habits and energy investments can humble a guy or gal. It’s OK to be the smartest guy in the room but you still need the wisdom of remaining somewhat humble for the house.
Obviously you have some sensitive buttons. Personally, given my elderly age and job hop history, I’m just glad to have a job. I have quit as many jobs and you and have, and equally been fired enough to have burned my share of bridges. So I can say these things with some respect for your unknown particulars of emotional history. We who tend to fight for high ideals sometimes forget to watch our styles.
Equally your tendency to be snappy and seemingly somewhat tyrranical has leaked out to the airwaves as you have complained a bit on issues of technologies not working, not enough staff, and not enough salary, etc. I grew up in an emotionally disturbed (volatile) family. I learned inappropriate ways of trying to get my way. I know how anger has a way of disrupting goals and hurting people. “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes or it!” – Marcus Aurelius
If you are dealing with financial stress know within yourself that you could easily make money as an author—your spontaneous speech is more literary than many writers.
As far as management and resource—a smart business remains flexible with resource—it is simply good business sense.
Relax and get plenty of quality please.
My son says he has a boring job and there is not much interesting on the radio to listen to—so he needs you ought making it happen.
Ben Smith
P.S. Can you tell marketing to get the asinine Dennis Miller spiel about swastikas carved on the forehead off the fricken air? The guy is moron.
Comment by Ben Smith — Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 8:31 am
thank god for activist judges
Comment by mutt — Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
thank god for happy negroes
Comment by mutt — Friday, May 16, 2008 @ 9:47 pm
Wow…..a lot of Mystery Rants…..hostility towards scepticism, too.
jesse-a couple questions…..my comment about the Icelandic busses which run on hydrogen: the containment vessels for the fuel, which much be kept both at a couple hundred below zero AND under great pressure…..what do you use? for, say, a 20 gallon tank? And how many BTU/gal? Dont wanna get cussed out (tho I can take it) Im just curious.
And if your generator uses electricity to spit the hydrogen & oxy molecules out of water (if thats how you do it) how much juice gets how much hydrogen?? just aksin…..
Comment by mutt — Saturday, May 17, 2008 @ 5:10 am
thank goddess for happy negroes
Comment by mutt — Saturday, May 17, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
hmmmm.two mutts. one a scaptic, , been there, done that.
the other lives in his parents basement and fancies himself a punkFront trooper.
by thier works shall you know them……
Comment by mutt — Sunday, May 18, 2008 @ 7:02 am
Maybe we should have a contest to see who really hates Bush the most! Bush hatred has been around for so long that it is a legitimate point of view. After all, we won’t have him to blame for the world’s problems for very much longer. It will be our own fault if McCain is elected to continue the genocidal policies of the Bush administration. I wish McCain had been elected in 2000. There’s a good chance that none of this would have ever happened. After all, the military hever really started a war. It takes a new kind of American to just go ahead and start a war. So much for JFK, right? But it’s too late for a McCain presidency now. It’s already a matter of honor or humiliation to the hawks. Just like Viet Nam. A McCain presidency would be the worst thing that could possibly happen to America since the Bush victory in 2004. Make no mistake, our country has turned a corner. The only time to return to the cherished and honored traditions that you and I both believe in is now. Yes, and forgive my naivete. In London, shortly after 9/11/02, I saw protesters unfurling a banner that said U.S. out of Iraq. Honestly, I really didn’t know it was going to happen until the final build-up to spring. Living in San Diego, I knew all the bullshit about the U.N. resolution meant nothing. The supply ships were being loaded to the gunwhales with the finest military equipment the world has ever seen. They motor up to La Jolla and then take some kind of left turn to Japan on the trade routes.
The Iraqi summer was supposed to be unbearably hostile and alien to our poor troops in their chem-suits, bravely facing the poisoned atmosphere of Saddam’s battlefield. What a load of propaganda that was. So far the military had to endure 6 Iraqi summers. I guess they all do what they can to stay out of the sun. But as I recall, other than the supposed WMD that was once depicted by a cartoonist as being under a trap-door concealed by a rug, avoidance of an intense battle with Saddam’s elite forces in the blazing furnace of the Iraqi summer was the primary motivational factor for hurrying to war. Yeah! You’re starting to remember.
I hate that beady-eyed son-of-a-bitch! He makes me feel like there are worms crawling through my veins. The day he got re-elected was the worst day of my life.
Comment by Flying Junior — Sunday, May 18, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Damn, that’s quite harsh to lump me in with the righties because I think that the hydro fuel cell thing is a joke. If there were nothing but good intentions from the people who put the fuel cell idea out there, I would go for it, however, I am only a skeptic. I think it’s a great idea were it to actually come to fruition and not be something we peg our hopes on. I am not saying that the hydrogen fuel cell is a joke in and of itself, but merely the idea that it will actually come out. There were models set to come out this summer by Honda and others. I think you missed my point. I think any alternative is sound, but this alternative is the one that they sold to us to take the electric car off the table. Promising us “better” and more efficient technology by removing already better and efficient technology completely leaving us with a void while we wait for the miracle of hydrogen. It is not my disbelief in the technology, but rather my lack of faith in the so called energy companies to let this actually roll out. When it does roll out, I am on board. We should all be.
It’s just that feeling I get that they are waving the carrot in front of the horse. I have no doubt that scientist who develop new and cleaner technologies have the best of intentions (and right now more than ever, we need a solution and fast), it’s the bean counters and the soon-to-be-fired CEOs that eventually make the decisions to ruin good ideas. It’s those people that have thus far fucked us all and have kept us oil dependent. On the eve of the introduction of the mass produced hydro powered vehicles, I fully expect Big Oil to step in and buy said technology thus fucking out of one of our big chances to get out of this mess.
Jesse, you completely missed my point and I know you are a smart cat. You just read that I thought it was a joke and probably got all bent out of shape so much so that you actually hinted at my being a global warming skeptic. I guess the point of this is, I am with you brother. Trust me. I am just preparing myself for the disappointment ahead of time that way, if it all works out right, I will be amazed and for once, I will be proud of humankind for finally doing the right thing. It is a bit difficult to believe in this because Dennis Miller became an advocate of it in his stand up act…after saying “I like George Bush”.
Comment by BigJ — Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Maybe you’re not to crazy about the Bush department of the interior. How about the recent listing of the polar bear as an endangered species? Bush finally did something right. He has a heart after all. Not so fast! Let’s see what our secretary of the interior feels is an appropriate response to this issue.
But the long-delayed decision to list the bear as a threatened species may prove less of an impediment to oil and gas industries along the Alaskan coast than many environmentalists had hoped. Mr. Kempthorne also made it clear that it would be “wholly inappropriate” to use the listing as a tool to reduce greenhouse gases, as environmentalists had intended to do.
There you have it, I guess it would be innappropriate to actually try to protect their habitat.
Ever heard of mountaintop removal? We can thank Robert F. Kennedy for raising awareness of this horrific method of coal mining. The land cries out as Mother Nature weeps.
Maybe you’re not happy with the many efforts to ease air pollution laws. I know I don’t like it.
I think my current favorite is that Bush can just suspend any laws that he doesn’t like. Nobody could have predicted suspending habeas corpus. If only Reagan could come back for one hour to say, “Tear down that wall Mr. Bush!”
Comment by Flying Junior — Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 6:48 am
Stacy:
I don’t think it was mere coincidence that your boss man had “lunatic” Ann Coulter on his radio show during the full moon. Apparently her witch craziness is attracted to Southern California this time of the moon cycle (since I believe she referred to her own capacity for “hysteria” twice in the interview). *Note – not intended as offense to pagan worshippers and Wicca people who actually, on average, are more tolerant than “bitches” who work for the equivalent of Neo-Nazi poster girls.
And perhaps it is the gravitational pull of the full moon, but I do believe than Ann who be much more of as “asset” to the public if she would just moon her ass into a camera for sexist and prurient interests than speaking into a microphone from her lower charka.
It is a shame that attractive blond women have been used to sell every type of marketing product including cigarettes and other harmful products, but to think that this blond bimbo, who voluntarily speak her brain-damage addle to the public, is beyond the pale in comparison to the full moon’s hue.
Certainly there must be a function in this society in which her services could render a more positive effect. She needs less intellectual work because being inflammatory is not necessarily something to brag about.
Comment by John Hopkins — Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 8:17 am
If Coulter speaks with her lower chakra you think with your male chauvinist stick you pig! If you have a fetish for her Nazi collaborating ass you’re a low life. To think that bitch still thinks global warming is a scam and continues to call the MSM “shrills” idiots for the left.
Patty Prude
Comment by Patty Powder — Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 10:50 am
yes, indeed, oft times the dumbstick does too much thinkin, Ms Powder.
no, “Ann” Coulter lacks appeal, her death politics is a good match for her gaunt , starved rat look….I shudder to contemplate whatever the hell her “lower chakra’ is. dosnt sound like fun…..
Roller Derby gals- now THERES gals for men who actually LIKE women. (tho, to be sure, a fair number of them can do without dumbstick wavin louts about…..
By all means take a stick to us grunting lowlifes, Patty P, if we didnt enjoy writhing to the lash we wouldnt tune into Benito Taylors’ Balcony Broadcasts……
Comment by mutt — Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Dear Patty Prude:
Listen you straw-women caricature of a self-righteous feminist. Facts are facts. I just happen to be one of those men who would likely find it easier to fall in love with Ann Coulter’s ass then her head (if only she would change careers and do the Paris Hilton thing so I can see photos of creamy derriere).
Sorry if you cannot handle the fact that some things about some men are just biological. And who said the brain’s assumed capacity to think is so superior anyway? And why is a certain want-ta-bee degrading pigs with negative assertions? Why do some feminists presume that they are superior to pigs? Personally I like groveling around in the mud of non-puritanical reality. I like being the lust-ridden animal that I am that finds affinity to worship the cheeks of glamour. I like my hoggish appetites. I would not trade them for sanctimonious righteousness any day of the week. There is something earthy about just being closer to the apes than the angels.
Also it just seems apropos that Coulter’s ass would be a subject of conversation on a full moon–that is for the wolf in some of us.
Comment by John Hopkins — Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
Hey Johnny Hop
You greasy bacon fat hog of a guy. This is the good fairy from the Wizard of Oz. Remember me?
Well anyway I just want to warn you about the ass-inine Annie sweetie-pie Coulter. First you must learn to listen to the small voice that can discern between the difference of appearances and the inner reality of substances, because this lady Coulter is the devil incarnate.
She may entice you with her features but she’ll wrap around you like a snake and then squeeze until you cannot breathe every again. Have you forgotten how she honed in on Edward’s “feminine” charms as a Breck girl? Did you not hear her refer to Obama as Obambi a multiple of times? Can you not hear the evil desire in her to destroy her prey?
Oh you fat piggy head that went to the market—do you really think you are the cunning and voracious wolf?
If you’re so easily distracted by the wiles of a woman’s back—well then you can kiss my corset—you mammalian animal.
Comment by FriendlyFairy — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 9:39 am
Dear Patty Prude: Men who like women’s bodies aren’t necessarily sexist. In this case, I would prefer men like Ms. Coulter for her body than for mind.
I think we need a liberal “Ann Coulter” type person to counter her awfulness. Perhaps a fishnet-wearing, curvy (the opposite of Ann’s skinny ass) brunet or red head who can just kill them with kindness and logic? Anyone? Got any suggestions Mutt? Should we nominate Patty? Or perhaps one of your roller derby gals?
Patty do you fit the description? Use your sexuality! Ann does.
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 9:55 am
Its hard to think John would sink so low as to think A.C. has some kind of sex appeal would actually screw a maggot filled skunk. Man, try and upgrade your basic animal instincts and find some sort of class in the recesses of your addled brain.
Comment by knifemaster — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 10:20 am
FJ, Mountaintop removal is a monstrous abomination. Coal is a terrible curse.
Comment by Sadie — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 10:34 am
No! No! No! Gracious Good Fairy from the Wizard of Odd. Don’t let that lecherous lackey kiss your corset. Can’t you see how low he is with his overtures to bask over the buttocks of Ann Coulter? How could you even think to deign to his level of mammalian fun.
Perhaps, fair one, you have been on the shelf too long—drying out like the weeds on the foothills of Southern California’s hot breeze? Fear not fair one—there are more noble men in this land than the likes of that lard head whose wayward snout is to the ground.
Proud Peacock and Prince
Comment by Proud Peacock — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 11:34 am
Some of you morons need to find that sense of humor you are so evidently lacking.
Comment by Sammy — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
Hey Pea Brain:
Who hogtied your brainstem you miscreant puff of prudish pride. I’m off the shelf too you know nothing knot of nobility. This is the real Wicked Witch of the West—the hag that made the Wizard of Oz a great movie. Do you really think the goooodeee two shoes and grayshish fairy mairm made the show? No, it took someone of high tone like myself.
Furthermore, you male dimbo, why is that you presume the fair golden fairy is so truly fair? Do you have any idea of the kinds of things she has been up to?
But the west is my territory—not Ann Coulter’s. She has nothing on wickedness when compared to me. In fact she would faint just being in the same chamber room. Plus she has never learned how to ride a broomstick—irrespective of how fair her lily behind may be.
I challenge her to a contest of evil doing and spell binding.
If you want the wild thing you got to know how to wing it—you flighty fluff of flatulence, or as they say in Hollywood—you gasbag of pride.
WWW
Comment by Wild Witch — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Madame WWW- I know the truth about you! Ya wanna know the truth about the WWW? She was the ONLY one in Oz with a sense of right & wrong. And the heart to act on it. The Great and Mighty OZ? A war mongering, fear peddling bigot, a totalitarian wannabe. the Tin Man? a souless user. The cowardly Lion? Rendered so by Oz- and rescued by none other than WWW- herself. Scarecrow- WWW’s one true love, rendered thus to save him from a mob of lapel pin types. The Good Witch? A self centered airhead, until our WWW beats some sense into her……the movie has it ALL wrong.
Truth is out, sweetie- I saw Wicked. And Ill be delighted to make you feel Wicked any day……
Gentlemen, and Ladies, we are wandering far afield. But fiesty wimmins are a longstanding Mutt weakness. Im a fool for ‘em.
Most of the Derby Dolls Ive talked to have rather radical politics, but arent “active” in the public sphere. I dont think theres a Bush-IE in the lot, or a Coultergiest. And Im presuming, but they dont seem like the sort who respect a woman who covered up her mates crimes against OTHER women…..
WWW welcome aboard.
Stacy, batter up!
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
Well Mutsy and Snifwinder:
Since when do I need to be all politically correct just to think about some prurient action. You meathead? Apparently some pseudo-liberal, pseudo-intellectual types think one should be some kind of Hamlet and only have hormones for the high-minded.
Well guess what buddy—if physical attraction was such a noble art then why are there so many bad couples, bad marriages, and mediocre spirits haunting this planet—huh?
Like I’ve told haughty feminists—men did not create sexual interests—they inherited their passions. So stop condemning me for the lust of God’s green earth.
It was illiberality that has tried to impose its supercilious political correctness on us mere mortal anima. When are highbrows going to lay off the conceits of pseudo-elitism?
Comment by John Hopkins — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
John, I was on your side, a little nauseus however, about your attraction to Man Coulter, until you went and lumped we haughty feminists into the same category. I’m nothing like prudie patty.
I just threw up a little bit.
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Have any of you had the opportunity to poke sticks at the republicans on www.redcounty.com ? It’s kind of fun, but don’t make the mistake my “friend” made by using Hitler as her name. They don’t like that and they banned me, I mean her. Damn Mighty Thor!
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
a moment, please……im digesting the notion Im a highbrow……ahem, well: its not the prurient thinking- its the object of such thinking, in this case, Miss (?) Coulter.
you make your case: so many bad couples. Which is why discrimination is SUCH a grand notion in pairings…..
But lust away, Hophead- you think Im parsing Engels on The Family when Im watchin the Derby Dolls???
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Now this is scary. Bush is negotiating with the Saudi royal family about selling nuclear technology. Well, I guess as long as the King gives his word it will never be used to make weapons, that’s good enough for me. Not only do Bush’ friends in the nuclear energy industry get this swell deal, but Bush may actually convince the King to ramp up oil production enough to lower the price a small smount. All we have to do is sell the technology and supply a source of fuel. Talk about a win-win situation! I’m looking forward to lower prices at the pump ASAP.
The agreement provides access to safe, reliable fuel sources for nuclear reactors and demonstrates what the Bush Administration calls Saudi leadership as a non-proliferation model for the region.
The agreement expands cooperation to better safeguard the kingdom’s vast oil reserves and its pipeline distribution system, as well as borders.
As part of the deal, Saudi Arabia joins a global initiative to combat nuclear terrorism to enhance the protection of nuclear systems and improve its ability to detect and confiscate illegally held nuclear material.
The kingdom also joins an international alliance to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials, including delivery systems.
God help us if McCain wins in November.
Comment by Flying Junior — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
Mr. Taylor:
Here is a tentative determination that might help explains the Ann Coulter debate:
Please note that at this point this can only be speculation:
Apparently, starting at note #46, one of your listeners had listened to your boss interview Ann Coulter on his morning show, and he was not impressed with what she said. Perhaps there were some loony questions asked and some equally loony answers given.
Said listener noted that Coulter’s lunacy corresponded to a full moon.
Anyway, there might be some guilt or perplexity on his part because he is attracted to her body but not to her head. Yet this is really not that unusual to have a person attracted to body and not mind—it happens on both sides the isle—actually quite frequently.
I suspect however that this individual was equally being affected by the full moon’s gravitational pull. If you have been in the psychotherapy business as long as I have—you know that certain minds are more sensitive to various stresses than are others. The brain has a higher level of liquid pulp—as well as the inner ear canals—that affect one’s balance. On the full moon the sensitive are more prone to act out or get a bit maniacal. This behavior will likely subside with the waning of the moon.
If for some unlikely reason this guy continues to go further and further out into space then it could be some breakdown—“fatigue” I think is your word. People vary quite a bit. It could be any number of things adding stress. Too much political reality. Not enough social engagement. General alientation. Global warming or heat spells. Adjusting to city life. Not taking one’s medication or using substances. Who knows?
But one thing is for sure—he is a pig poke in the mud as he refuses to succumb to political and social pressures. And he maintains cogent arguments as to why. I suspect he is fatigued of the politically correct pressures by people he considers self-righteous.
Or perhaps, and this is only a long shot, he is at some level of creativity that he inadvertently intimidates people so that he finds himself attracted to woman that seem immune to his influence. Ann Coulter would fit such a bill. She would likely be impervious to any rational argument. That could provide the stability of a valence. Again who knows?
But I have to agree with him—she does have nice legs.
Anyway—so much for speculations.
However what is even more interesting is the number of others that have entered the fray—including Hollywood stars! I’m impressed.
Dr. Donald
Comment by Doctor donald — Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Dr. Donald, I just threw up a little bit again when I read that last sentence.
Comment by Lorelei — Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 12:18 pm
Oh wait, it was the third to last sentence. I think I suffered from hysterical blindness after I read about A.C.’s legs.
Comment by Lorelei — Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Well, I guess as long as the King gives his word it will never be used to make weapons, that’s good enough for me. Not only do Bush’ friends in the nuclear energy industry
Flying Junior, you always have something to say that is worth reading.
Comment by sadie — Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 2:37 pm