Monday, March 9, 2009
Clunk, rattle, CLANG.
My radiators sound like the beings in the cellar are launching a full-frontal assault on us surface dwellers.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Gay Marriage
http://www.slate.com/id/2212893/
I read a fascinating article in Slate about gay marriage. The gist of the issue was state governments vs. the federals government. The general, stereotypical Conservative response is that the federal government should stay out of state governments' business, BUT in this case, that same argument would favor gay marriage. I know several "traditional-common-sense-values" conservatives who are utterly Small-Government until people start doin' gay shit, when they want the government to step in and stop people from exercising offensive freedoms. As the article says, if you really support state autonomy, then you have to implicitly support gay marriage rights, since two of our states allow gay marriage. Although, I suppose you could say that even if the state allows something, the federal government doesn't have to listen. Except, then the federal government would be squelching state's right.
I still think that if we leave the states alone, in twenty years zero smart, creative, progressive, forward-thinking people will live in the tundra states, and then, HUGE surprise! industries in those states will flounder by relying on antique, unsustainable business practices. The coastal states will try some new-fangled ideas that seem weird and scary for a couple years and eventually come to seem perfectly logical, inevitable and reasonable.
I read a fascinating article in Slate about gay marriage. The gist of the issue was state governments vs. the federals government. The general, stereotypical Conservative response is that the federal government should stay out of state governments' business, BUT in this case, that same argument would favor gay marriage. I know several "traditional-common-sense-values" conservatives who are utterly Small-Government until people start doin' gay shit, when they want the government to step in and stop people from exercising offensive freedoms. As the article says, if you really support state autonomy, then you have to implicitly support gay marriage rights, since two of our states allow gay marriage. Although, I suppose you could say that even if the state allows something, the federal government doesn't have to listen. Except, then the federal government would be squelching state's right.
I still think that if we leave the states alone, in twenty years zero smart, creative, progressive, forward-thinking people will live in the tundra states, and then, HUGE surprise! industries in those states will flounder by relying on antique, unsustainable business practices. The coastal states will try some new-fangled ideas that seem weird and scary for a couple years and eventually come to seem perfectly logical, inevitable and reasonable.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Lazy Idiots
Some of the people I work with are so stupid it hurts me. Several times I've heard people say, "How can America have a deficit? Why don't we just print more money?" And this is not just people in the mailroom, this is actual editors saying things this retarded, things that I was taught were stupid when I was fucking eight.
My manager today said that he told his kids in high school, and he hated to say it, to learn Spanish. I gave a sort of horrified/dumbstruck look. He said, "I mean, I feel, if you come to this country, you should learn English." I said, "Well, I think everyone should know at least two languages." He didn't seem to really have anything to say to this.
How many jobs are non-English-speaking immigrants stealing from "hard-working regular American Joes" like my manager who barely peels his fat ass off the computer seat twice a day? If all the immigrants who work seventy hours a week washing dishes and mopping floors learned English, they would suddenly get the easy jobs that dumb, lazy generic fat white people have been hogging for two hundred years. There are a lot of jobs, like mail room supervisor, sanitation company manager, etc., that any moron can do, but always winds up going to some braindead older white guy where no one expects anything from him and he delivers even less.
What is so horrible about white people learning to speak a second language? How does you learning Spanish obviate the need for Mexicans to learn English? I used to work with a lazy, dumb-as-shit fucking retard Puerto Rican guy and this dumbshit spoke three languages (conversationally, at least) fluently. There's a big difference between thinking that people should learn the language of the country they immigrate to, and wondering why you should learn a language other than English. It's like saying, "Hey, I'm a fat lazy white guy and I have no ambition other than to sit around in some condo drinking Bud light, why should I dream of anything greater? How dare you suggest such a thing?!"
My manager today said that he told his kids in high school, and he hated to say it, to learn Spanish. I gave a sort of horrified/dumbstruck look. He said, "I mean, I feel, if you come to this country, you should learn English." I said, "Well, I think everyone should know at least two languages." He didn't seem to really have anything to say to this.
How many jobs are non-English-speaking immigrants stealing from "hard-working regular American Joes" like my manager who barely peels his fat ass off the computer seat twice a day? If all the immigrants who work seventy hours a week washing dishes and mopping floors learned English, they would suddenly get the easy jobs that dumb, lazy generic fat white people have been hogging for two hundred years. There are a lot of jobs, like mail room supervisor, sanitation company manager, etc., that any moron can do, but always winds up going to some braindead older white guy where no one expects anything from him and he delivers even less.
What is so horrible about white people learning to speak a second language? How does you learning Spanish obviate the need for Mexicans to learn English? I used to work with a lazy, dumb-as-shit fucking retard Puerto Rican guy and this dumbshit spoke three languages (conversationally, at least) fluently. There's a big difference between thinking that people should learn the language of the country they immigrate to, and wondering why you should learn a language other than English. It's like saying, "Hey, I'm a fat lazy white guy and I have no ambition other than to sit around in some condo drinking Bud light, why should I dream of anything greater? How dare you suggest such a thing?!"
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