A CASE FOR SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
I used to be one of those that was so rebellious that I would buck social trends. Valentine's Day? Pfft, that's for people who are forced to show their significant other that they care. St. Paddy's day? Bush league amateur hour in terms of drinkers who just needed to find an excuse to chug back beers and have the excuse that it's socially accepted to drink in excess today.
Not anymore. I think there's something to it. I mean, I always celebrated this very non-Irish holiday by cooking corned beef, which in its very nature is just not Irish in the fucking slightest. So perhaps I had to reexamine the very nature of what I didn't really like about this day and then just learn to embrace it.
Because yeah, Corned Beef is by far not something they do in Ireland, where meat from a cow is pretty sacred and scarce compared to the amount of beef we have in the U.S. Besides, in Ireland it was soups and potato based foods. A fisherman's pie or cottage pie. Some cabbage, carrots and potatoes. The more than likely scenario is that Irish immigrants to the U.S. found a sort of kindred spirit in the Jews, another background that was getting shitted on by the majority, and that corned beef process was adapted by the Irish as a staple American thing.
Much the same, St. Paddy's day in the U.S. is celebrated far more than it ever would be if you were in Ireland as an actual thing. So in a sense, to celebrate St. Paddy's day is basically to celebrate an American tradition and that in itself should make it A-okay to do. The justification to chug back those things that represent a sort of home away for a new home here. The same way that Cinco De Mayo is celebrated here far more than it is in Mexico and is by no means an actual independence day of the such. But it's one that Mexican Americans have attached themselves to and perhaps that should be enough to make it an official thing worth celebrating.
I guess that's a new way of looking at it. Or, hey, just imagine that it's a decent way for the Bostonian folks to thin each other out with all the fights and blood about to be shed this weekend. At least that aspect makes me smile.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
DEATH SENTENCE FOR DEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE FOR DEATH PENALTY
California did something amazing this last week. We did away, for the most part, with the whole lethal injection death penalty. Honestly, I feel like the whole "Eye for an eye" nonsense just doesn't fly. Considering most homicide cases remain cold cases and unsolved, the amount you save from the pointless death penalty
I'm not some pro lifer because, generally speaking, pro-lifers are the ones who scream to high hell that the person who committed a crime of killing someone and is on deathrow should die. Which seems like the complete opposite of what someone who is pro-life would do, but yet here we are.
In any case, I do think that the death penalty is a waste of fucking time because life in prison for the crime of murder seems just about equal and "just". more than anything else, It's not that we're ridding someone who murdered off the planet so much as we're doing the same act they did and calling it justified which seems like horse shit. The thing to remember is that we should be better than that. We should be more humane than that.
On top of everything else, as I briefly mentioned, the act of getting to the lethal injection or electric chair is filled with appeals and paper work that on average, it's millions of dollars spent to kill someone who is already rotting away in a prison for the crimes they committed. To me, that's a lot worse of a punishment than putting them out of their misery in the dumbest way possible.
We still rub alcohol on the spot that the lethal injection will go in. Man, thank god, we sure wouldn't want him to get an infection from the needle or anything. Then you have the situation that those chemicals have had their own issues in fully working. It's a complete waste of time when you already have sentenced the man to live the rest of his natural life in a small prison.
So I'm glad that we're doing away with it. There's about 740 folks who currently are in line to die. Just imagine all the appeals court time being wasted on that shit. How many tax dollars are we blowing just to get them through that line and jam a needle into them. It's far far far FAR cheaper to just feed them 3 "meals" and keep them alive. I mean, if that's what we are doing with prisons in general and not bothering with reforming them, then lets just do it that way.
The justice you think the family and loved ones of those who the killer killed is not going to be felt even with the death. You're not bringing anyone back. you're not doing anything than perpetuating a system of killing someone and we need to be better than that. You shouldn't have to scare folks from killing one another with the threat of death.
In any case, that's my words. I'm anti-death penalty as it doesn't do anything productive to bring back those lost and it cost our already fucked up system too much money.
California did something amazing this last week. We did away, for the most part, with the whole lethal injection death penalty. Honestly, I feel like the whole "Eye for an eye" nonsense just doesn't fly. Considering most homicide cases remain cold cases and unsolved, the amount you save from the pointless death penalty
I'm not some pro lifer because, generally speaking, pro-lifers are the ones who scream to high hell that the person who committed a crime of killing someone and is on deathrow should die. Which seems like the complete opposite of what someone who is pro-life would do, but yet here we are.
In any case, I do think that the death penalty is a waste of fucking time because life in prison for the crime of murder seems just about equal and "just". more than anything else, It's not that we're ridding someone who murdered off the planet so much as we're doing the same act they did and calling it justified which seems like horse shit. The thing to remember is that we should be better than that. We should be more humane than that.
On top of everything else, as I briefly mentioned, the act of getting to the lethal injection or electric chair is filled with appeals and paper work that on average, it's millions of dollars spent to kill someone who is already rotting away in a prison for the crimes they committed. To me, that's a lot worse of a punishment than putting them out of their misery in the dumbest way possible.
We still rub alcohol on the spot that the lethal injection will go in. Man, thank god, we sure wouldn't want him to get an infection from the needle or anything. Then you have the situation that those chemicals have had their own issues in fully working. It's a complete waste of time when you already have sentenced the man to live the rest of his natural life in a small prison.
So I'm glad that we're doing away with it. There's about 740 folks who currently are in line to die. Just imagine all the appeals court time being wasted on that shit. How many tax dollars are we blowing just to get them through that line and jam a needle into them. It's far far far FAR cheaper to just feed them 3 "meals" and keep them alive. I mean, if that's what we are doing with prisons in general and not bothering with reforming them, then lets just do it that way.
The justice you think the family and loved ones of those who the killer killed is not going to be felt even with the death. You're not bringing anyone back. you're not doing anything than perpetuating a system of killing someone and we need to be better than that. You shouldn't have to scare folks from killing one another with the threat of death.
In any case, that's my words. I'm anti-death penalty as it doesn't do anything productive to bring back those lost and it cost our already fucked up system too much money.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
CAPTAIN MARVEL - AN INCEL REVIEW
CAPTAIN MARVEL - AN INCEL REVIEW
Let me get this straight, Nick Fury had this pager to summon a Carol Sue Danvers (MARY SUE MUCH!??!) and he didn't use it when NYC was under attack by an alien invasion or when an A.I. Robot tried to take over the world and settled by just destroying some shitty country that Russia was probably going to try to reunite with? See, clearly they're just pandering to women here and giving them empowerment to break that glass ceiling with magical blast from her hands because, you know, she's so witty and sassy with the come backs against the powerful magic negro Nick Fury.
I mean, sure, Nick Fury probably didn't want to blow his load on he NYC thing because it was his attempt to get together his Avengers... convienent that they're even making the name of the team a creation by Carol. Man, Marvel, do you not want my money anymore? Don't you see what happened with Star Wars when they got all girl power? Did you not like my cash!?!!
Ha. Just fucking with you, but seriously, I'm tired of Marvel pushing their agenda. I'm one step away from boycotting this movie because I'm sick of all the political radicals in Hollywood shoving their agenda down my throat with bullshit moral messages in my face such as it is okay to join the air force. Fuck you, industrial war factories and government industrial complex of death!
Even if it's a reference to the clearly not homosexual line stepping that is Top Gun. Honestly, the only real complaint I had about Captain Marvel is that they used No Doubt's Just a girl for a key fight scene and while other 90's music key moments felt forced, that one was the one that made me sad because it just didn't match the tempo at all, and the lyrics were louder than folks yapping.
Clearly they should have used Hole's Violet. Would have had the same impact for maximum female empowerment and maybe we could have also checked off the Kurt Cobain connection so we didn't have to also have that Nirvana track on there. Look, I'm not hating on the Mary Sue, I'm just hating on the fact that they went completely vanilla in terms of the musical selections of the 90's and maybe I'm a little more on this kick because my prime teenage years were throughout the 90's and there was far more superior choices they could have gone with in the musical selection.
Anyhow, it's nice to see that the Marvel Universe has a place for women to look up to a central hero that has her own film. I know Black Widow and Scarlett Witch are around, but Brie comes into her own on this and seeing little children dress up as Captain Marvel and look up to the character is fucking awesome. Finally, we're one step closer to moving away from the male gaze patriarchy....
Oh. Well fuck.
Let me get this straight, Nick Fury had this pager to summon a Carol Sue Danvers (MARY SUE MUCH!??!) and he didn't use it when NYC was under attack by an alien invasion or when an A.I. Robot tried to take over the world and settled by just destroying some shitty country that Russia was probably going to try to reunite with? See, clearly they're just pandering to women here and giving them empowerment to break that glass ceiling with magical blast from her hands because, you know, she's so witty and sassy with the come backs against the powerful magic negro Nick Fury.
I mean, sure, Nick Fury probably didn't want to blow his load on he NYC thing because it was his attempt to get together his Avengers... convienent that they're even making the name of the team a creation by Carol. Man, Marvel, do you not want my money anymore? Don't you see what happened with Star Wars when they got all girl power? Did you not like my cash!?!!
Ha. Just fucking with you, but seriously, I'm tired of Marvel pushing their agenda. I'm one step away from boycotting this movie because I'm sick of all the political radicals in Hollywood shoving their agenda down my throat with bullshit moral messages in my face such as it is okay to join the air force. Fuck you, industrial war factories and government industrial complex of death!
Even if it's a reference to the clearly not homosexual line stepping that is Top Gun. Honestly, the only real complaint I had about Captain Marvel is that they used No Doubt's Just a girl for a key fight scene and while other 90's music key moments felt forced, that one was the one that made me sad because it just didn't match the tempo at all, and the lyrics were louder than folks yapping.
Clearly they should have used Hole's Violet. Would have had the same impact for maximum female empowerment and maybe we could have also checked off the Kurt Cobain connection so we didn't have to also have that Nirvana track on there. Look, I'm not hating on the Mary Sue, I'm just hating on the fact that they went completely vanilla in terms of the musical selections of the 90's and maybe I'm a little more on this kick because my prime teenage years were throughout the 90's and there was far more superior choices they could have gone with in the musical selection.
Anyhow, it's nice to see that the Marvel Universe has a place for women to look up to a central hero that has her own film. I know Black Widow and Scarlett Witch are around, but Brie comes into her own on this and seeing little children dress up as Captain Marvel and look up to the character is fucking awesome. Finally, we're one step closer to moving away from the male gaze patriarchy....
Oh. Well fuck.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
DEATH METAL AND YOUR INNER HAPPINESS
DEATH METAL AND YOUR INNER HAPPINESS
Despite what you may think, those who listen to Death Metal are not more likely to be violent people. Not at all. In fact, a new study shows that for them, it brings out some joy and happiness and because of that, they are not desensitized to violence as your asshole mind probably assumed they were.
Go ahead, admit it. You thought that long haired, all black wearing, chained up and spiked collar fella was going to be some violent sex predator and murder your face for looking like a plain ol' vanilla self that you are. But no. They aren't any less prone to violence than the next person and in fact they are probably happier and more soft than you can probably think.
Violent video games on the other than, those will desensitize your ass to violence and calling someone's mom a bitch more than anything else. You see, there's a difference between hearing that very loud ear piercing noise and banging your head than actually sitting behind a monitor and owning newbs on the internet.
Really makes you think, don't it? About the perceived notions we have for one another just because of little shit like this or that. Honestly, I know a lot of metal heads and they're often the most gentle of giants who love kitties and other bullshit of the such. I also know thin ass white boy gamers who probably should be on FBI watch list cause they're bound to shoot up some mother fucking office space.
Just goes to show you that perhaps... you should carve a pentagram into your arm and listen to some mother fuckin' DEATH METAL!!!!!1
Or.. you know, just enjoy classic music like most serial killers do.
Despite what you may think, those who listen to Death Metal are not more likely to be violent people. Not at all. In fact, a new study shows that for them, it brings out some joy and happiness and because of that, they are not desensitized to violence as your asshole mind probably assumed they were.
Go ahead, admit it. You thought that long haired, all black wearing, chained up and spiked collar fella was going to be some violent sex predator and murder your face for looking like a plain ol' vanilla self that you are. But no. They aren't any less prone to violence than the next person and in fact they are probably happier and more soft than you can probably think.
Violent video games on the other than, those will desensitize your ass to violence and calling someone's mom a bitch more than anything else. You see, there's a difference between hearing that very loud ear piercing noise and banging your head than actually sitting behind a monitor and owning newbs on the internet.
Really makes you think, don't it? About the perceived notions we have for one another just because of little shit like this or that. Honestly, I know a lot of metal heads and they're often the most gentle of giants who love kitties and other bullshit of the such. I also know thin ass white boy gamers who probably should be on FBI watch list cause they're bound to shoot up some mother fucking office space.
Just goes to show you that perhaps... you should carve a pentagram into your arm and listen to some mother fuckin' DEATH METAL!!!!!1
Or.. you know, just enjoy classic music like most serial killers do.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
THE ART OF THE DAD JOKE
THE ART OF THE DAD JOKE
On my commute today I heard Larry Mantle act completely dumbfounded by the whole "Dad Joke" concept in that he felt it was a new labeling on an old thing. While it may be called a dad joke now, I feel like Dad Joke, as a term and as a concept existed for a long time now. We all grew up with your father saying some sort of lame attempt to break the ice in the form of a shitty joke. It was a way for someone who didn't spend most of the time in your space like the nuclear family model of your mom being around you all the time growing up attempting to inject themselves into your lives
In the patriarchy, the bread winning father would be off to work most of the day and would never really interact. After a long day of bread making hard work, they would come home and to add some levity to the situation, the dad joke existed. It's always been a dad joke. It'll always will be a dad joke.
Larry Mantel, who I constantly feel is completely out of his element in any new subject that seems to come up, just didn't understand the concept of bad jokes and the enjoyment one can take from making other people suffer. For every groan and every ugh spouted by someone who heard a really shitty pun filled joke, myself, for example, take so much enjoyment that one can come up with someone's displeasure in actually hearing it. It's like seeing someone get kicked in the groan. Sure, it's a terrible situation if you're getting hit, but if you see the person's reaction... yup. that's joy.
That's why I say stupid pun jokes. That's why I embrace the fact that I have told so many bad dad jokes - as if it's a bad thing. Getting a reaction is getting a reaction. No matter what the reaction is.
Hmmm, maybe I'll do more science into this matter and get back to you on the complete break down of dad jokes. Be happy I spared you of any of them.
On my commute today I heard Larry Mantle act completely dumbfounded by the whole "Dad Joke" concept in that he felt it was a new labeling on an old thing. While it may be called a dad joke now, I feel like Dad Joke, as a term and as a concept existed for a long time now. We all grew up with your father saying some sort of lame attempt to break the ice in the form of a shitty joke. It was a way for someone who didn't spend most of the time in your space like the nuclear family model of your mom being around you all the time growing up attempting to inject themselves into your lives
In the patriarchy, the bread winning father would be off to work most of the day and would never really interact. After a long day of bread making hard work, they would come home and to add some levity to the situation, the dad joke existed. It's always been a dad joke. It'll always will be a dad joke.
Larry Mantel, who I constantly feel is completely out of his element in any new subject that seems to come up, just didn't understand the concept of bad jokes and the enjoyment one can take from making other people suffer. For every groan and every ugh spouted by someone who heard a really shitty pun filled joke, myself, for example, take so much enjoyment that one can come up with someone's displeasure in actually hearing it. It's like seeing someone get kicked in the groan. Sure, it's a terrible situation if you're getting hit, but if you see the person's reaction... yup. that's joy.
That's why I say stupid pun jokes. That's why I embrace the fact that I have told so many bad dad jokes - as if it's a bad thing. Getting a reaction is getting a reaction. No matter what the reaction is.
Hmmm, maybe I'll do more science into this matter and get back to you on the complete break down of dad jokes. Be happy I spared you of any of them.
Monday, March 11, 2019
SOCIAL MEDIA IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING
SOCIAL MEDIA IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING
Everything bad, at least. I mean, if anti-vaxxers and flat earthers are a clear example, we need to have some sort of level of test to see who the fuck can be on the internet. Because of those two groups of morons, there is a rise in people believing that the goddamn earth is flat as well as vaccines will give you some illness and thus, the rise of shit that was tackled many years ago.
Rather sad when you think about how much power this series of tubes can bring, and then to realize how wasteful it is being abused by with all the morons just saturating the good out of it with their own stupidity in terms of content.
Youtube, I'm looking at you. Stop being... well, you. Just stop it. Facebook is also now going to be a bit more insulator in terms of content, which is probably a terrible prediction of what sort of bubbles will form and what echo chambers will be coming out of it. I swear, you can't have a good debate with anyone any more because we all just like to enclose ourselves with like minded thoughts and while that may push further your own sort of understanding of things, it also means you're completely not willing to even entertain the thoughts of others that may not agree with your particular stance. So that's pretty fucked up in general.
In short, I blame FB for whatever the society has become and I'm sure that it'll only just get worse and worse as time goes along... whatever time that is left, that is.
Everything bad, at least. I mean, if anti-vaxxers and flat earthers are a clear example, we need to have some sort of level of test to see who the fuck can be on the internet. Because of those two groups of morons, there is a rise in people believing that the goddamn earth is flat as well as vaccines will give you some illness and thus, the rise of shit that was tackled many years ago.
Rather sad when you think about how much power this series of tubes can bring, and then to realize how wasteful it is being abused by with all the morons just saturating the good out of it with their own stupidity in terms of content.
Youtube, I'm looking at you. Stop being... well, you. Just stop it. Facebook is also now going to be a bit more insulator in terms of content, which is probably a terrible prediction of what sort of bubbles will form and what echo chambers will be coming out of it. I swear, you can't have a good debate with anyone any more because we all just like to enclose ourselves with like minded thoughts and while that may push further your own sort of understanding of things, it also means you're completely not willing to even entertain the thoughts of others that may not agree with your particular stance. So that's pretty fucked up in general.
In short, I blame FB for whatever the society has become and I'm sure that it'll only just get worse and worse as time goes along... whatever time that is left, that is.
Sunday, March 10, 2019
TIMES HAVE CHANGED, MOM AND DAD
TIMES HAVE CHANGED, MOM AND DAD!
Look, I get it. You think that I should be able to find a well paying career with ease because your asses had that ability no more than 30 years ago. But guess what, the times have fucking changed.
Just a heads up, Since 1978, the cost of College tuition increased by 1,120%. Medical care has increased by at least 601% Food has been bumped up by 244% and shelter, the fact of paying rent for some place that isn't you basement, went up by 360%.
Meanwhile, the pay of the typical workers rose by just 10% Minimum wage workers fell by 5.5% and if that's something to gawk at, just remember that the average CEO's pay increased by 937%
What I'm trying to tell you with these statistically factual numbers is that times have fucking changed and perhaps you should change the way you view this whole goddamn thing we call a life because the average college graduate can't make a living, especially because it's a pain in the ass to just get a decent paying job that will barely tread water with your student loans, let alone the crushing fact that the cost of living in an apartment that doesn't have 10 people living in the same space is just a pipe dream due to the raised rents.
And while you think this is just some whining Gen X'er bitching about the reality of the day, it's not. I'm not a Gen X'er, nor am I a Millennial. Because man, if I was I would just swallow a bullet because they are beyond fucked. I have a little bit of a nice situation going on, but I feel like I should write as the voice the majority who constantly gets shit on with the mentality that life is the same as it was 30 years ago when boomer's would just walk into a job and get a 40 year career out of it with retirement benefits - and, oh yeah, a fucking safety net that is social security. That's something the previous generation is probably not going to see a dime of and my generation would be fucking crazy thinking we'd get anything out of it.
It's fucked, but perhaps you folks should just change your mindset on this whole cost of living and even surviving.
Look, I get it. You think that I should be able to find a well paying career with ease because your asses had that ability no more than 30 years ago. But guess what, the times have fucking changed.
Just a heads up, Since 1978, the cost of College tuition increased by 1,120%. Medical care has increased by at least 601% Food has been bumped up by 244% and shelter, the fact of paying rent for some place that isn't you basement, went up by 360%.
Meanwhile, the pay of the typical workers rose by just 10% Minimum wage workers fell by 5.5% and if that's something to gawk at, just remember that the average CEO's pay increased by 937%
What I'm trying to tell you with these statistically factual numbers is that times have fucking changed and perhaps you should change the way you view this whole goddamn thing we call a life because the average college graduate can't make a living, especially because it's a pain in the ass to just get a decent paying job that will barely tread water with your student loans, let alone the crushing fact that the cost of living in an apartment that doesn't have 10 people living in the same space is just a pipe dream due to the raised rents.
And while you think this is just some whining Gen X'er bitching about the reality of the day, it's not. I'm not a Gen X'er, nor am I a Millennial. Because man, if I was I would just swallow a bullet because they are beyond fucked. I have a little bit of a nice situation going on, but I feel like I should write as the voice the majority who constantly gets shit on with the mentality that life is the same as it was 30 years ago when boomer's would just walk into a job and get a 40 year career out of it with retirement benefits - and, oh yeah, a fucking safety net that is social security. That's something the previous generation is probably not going to see a dime of and my generation would be fucking crazy thinking we'd get anything out of it.
It's fucked, but perhaps you folks should just change your mindset on this whole cost of living and even surviving.
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