Month: April 2023

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

From Ishmael:

In France, food prices rose by 65% between 1770 and 1790 but wages increased by only 22%. Price increases were attributed to government failure to prevent profiteering. Poor harvests throughout the 1780s, culminating in the most severe winter for decades in 1788/1789, created a rural peasantry with nothing to sell, and an urban proletariat whose purchasing power had collapsed. The other major drag on the economy was state debt.
Sounding familiar?

Indeed it is.  Not that I’m suggesting anything, but lately I’ve noticed quite a few writings on Teh Intarwebz that include sentiments symbolized by things like this:

…etc.

Cometh the time, cometh the mob.  Just sayin’.

News Roundup

Bad News

So let’s start with womyns…


...I prefer the Roger Sterling take:


...thus showing more commonsense than the average politician blaming the guns.


...because they’re idiots.  See next item:


...I think all PETA members should be forced to house the rats in their own homes.

From the Lawn Awder Files:


...busy little boy, huh?


...and:


...ah yes, “teens”.  Shorter, and easier to spell than “gangs of Black hooligans”.

And speaking of Black hooligans, Over There this time:


...first, they came for the guns.  Then, the machetes.  And then:


...and after this… screwdrivers?  hammers?  potato peelers?


...that “gender equity” thing is a bitch, innit?

In “World” News:


...okay;  how about “enemy”?

From Dept. of Global Cooling Climate Warming Change:


...what?  Solar power not working for Finland, then?  And:


...that’s page 272 in  Das Kapital.


...”give”?  Fuck off, Fattie.  If your fat ass overflows, buy your fat ass its own seat.


...annnnnnd:

And for more INSIGNIFICA:

   

...you could start by minding your own fucking business [sic].
And speaking of sexual activity:


...I know, I know:

...and a few more:

Hey… summer’s coming, right?

Two Events, One Day

Eco-Crap

From our insufferable apartment management comes this little bit of eco-silliness:

I refrained from pointing out that the energy required to manufacture the snacks and bottle and deliver the “free” water would vastly exceed the puny energy “savings” from our little complex.  Talk about “virtue-signaling”…

Now, what other momentous event occurred on April 20th?

Oh yeah, a birthday:

Wherever the bastard is, I hope the temperature is set to BROIL.

Again?

Old Fartism, Travels

And the hits just keep on coming:

Southwest Airlines planes were grounded nationwide Tuesday for what the carrier called an intermittent technology issue.

But think of all the money they saved by not upgrading their systems for well over a decade…

I can’t really cast nasturtiums, though.  My laptop is five years old, I still use Windoze 10 and I haven’t downloaded upgrades to my 8-year-old printer, ever.  My car has nearly 130,000 miles on it, my 1911 has fired off close to 30,000 rounds and I still watch DVDs (never got into that blu-ray nonsense).  I even read Dead Tree books, not their electronic versions on Kindle, and I still love butter-fried eggs even though they’ll probably kill me.  The catalog of things in my life that have never been upgraded is voluminous.

But I’m just one guy, and not a billion-dollar corporation responsible for the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year.