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At Slate, Emily Bazelon writes of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis:

Joe Francis is headed to prison for the second time. May he rot there. The founder of Girls Gone Wild was convicted Monday on misdemeanor charges of assault and false imprisonment. The allegations: In 2011, Francis met three women who went out after college graduation, took them home with him, and then tried to separate one from the other two, in the process grabbing her by the hair and throat and slamming her head to the floor. Charming.

You caught that:  “misdemeanor charges” warrant “rotting” in jail.  You’d be hard-pressed to find many people of liberal persuasion, especially Slate writers, call for the summary rotting of even a murderer.  Perhaps a murderer of women or a rapist would receive that harsh rhetorical sentence, but few other lousy and judgment-worthy people would.  It’s why you’ll see articles where people become crazy outraged about relatively uneventful and uncomfortable cat-calling on the street while not caring much about street thievery or flash mob beatdowns.  Why is this?  Why do liberals, typically, suggest punishments that are more dramatic than the crime?

I think this is a really important point to think about because it will explain one of the complaints that politicized liberals are often very shrill.  This tactic is a little different than shaming tactics because those are usually aimed directly at the perpetrator.  This is a more abstract concept and it is often expressed away from the action.

This ties into Liberal Germ Theory which asserts that a tolerant, sanitized and equitable society is prone to freaking out over minor crudities, in the sense that as the magnitude of the crime (or fuzzy social misstep) nears zero in terms of punishability, the expressed outrage over it increases in kind.  Some become unhinged over it.  As the justice system is limited in what punishments it can hand out for certain crimes, rhetoric steps in to fill out the sentence.

Joe Francis is receiving this rot wish not just because of his crimes but because of who he is.  Bazelon feels that whatever punishment he receives through the court does not match the full brunt of his offensive behavior.  She wants to address his hubris and privilege.  It is that part of his behavior that receives these snarky comments.  But the justice system cannot really deal with cockiness, caddishness, and crudeness even when a rich white man is doing it, so it must rely on these extra-legal treatments, usually issued by progressive footsoldier-bloggers.  We saw this with Duke lacrosse as well, and we could name many other examples.

The rhetoric is imprecise and the ones using it don’t realize what they’re doing.  It comes very close if not outright asserting that the perpetrator should actually be punished to the full extent of the rhetoric (Joe Francis actually rotting in jail) rather than understanding that the rhetoric is an add on itself to the punishment that has been handed out by the courts.

I distinguish this punishment mechanism by ideology because I believe that most conservatives (who rely more on good old-fashioned shame) does not actually hope for state-issued punishment and imprisonment.  But I do think that there are quite a few liberals who would enjoy imprisoning or at least issuing citations to cat-callers or people who use the n-word in public if they could get away with it.  And if you put a more radical liberal or a feminist in charge of crafting the justice and penal system, you’d probably find that they’d tack on more years specifically to redress perpetrators of higher status.

When the Bible says that we become one flesh with our spouses, we tend to interpret that as  symbolically one flesh, but could it be that, for women at least, we also become physically one flesh with our husbands?

On the Early Marriage thread, Happy Hen wrote:

I have been mulling the theory concerning women who marry young and thus “grow up” with their spouses, have regular relations with their husbands, probably multiple children (no hormonal bc assumed), that these women have more stable sex hormone profiles (given no other biological factors) and thus more emotional and physical contentment. We know having babies and breast feeding them is healthy for women’s weight and reduces the risk of certain illnesses. It is not such a stretch to think that regular sex with a healthy committed spouse started in the prime of fertility could also have physical benefits. Not so far fetched to assume the very act of doing what is right in God’s eyes in the end helps women not just spiritually and emotionally but in actuality even biologically and not just in the sense of having babies when we are most able to bear them safely. We do seem to by in large avoid the hormone induced agony the wall hitting, low estrogen, baby rabies, sperm donors hunters hit. If this is true and I know this won’t apply to every situation but women should get married early for their hormonal health.

That’s an interesting idea, and I remember someone linked to a study awhile back that showed that semen has an anti-depressant effect for women. It’s not unreasonable to imagine that the extra boost of testosterone received by women who have regular, non-contracepting sexual relations with their husbands has some effect on their own endocrine system, which affects their mood and their physical health.

However, there is something else I have been thinking about in terms of the whole young marriage/sexual bonding thing for women. At present, this is an unanswerable question, but it is interesting to think about. In this month’s issue of Smithsonian there is an article which describes a new frontier in medical research - the human microbiome. Quoting from the article:

We tend to think that we are exclusively a product of our own cells, upwards of ten trillion of them. But the microbes we harbor add another 100 trillion cells into the mix. The creature we admire in the mirror every morning is thus about 10 percent human by cell count [...] And while our 21,000 or so human genes help make us who we are, our resident microbes possess another eight million or so genes, many of which collaborate behind the scenes handling food, tinkering with the immune system, turning human genes on and off, and otherwise helping us function.

The article goes on to explain that each person’s microbiome is unique, with close family members having genetically more similar microbiomes than unrelated people.  In fact, a new experimental treatment for certain dangerous bacterial infections of the gut is to perform a fecal transplant.  Fecal material from a family member is “seeded” through the ill person’s colon, in hopes of reestablishing a healthy microbiome.  Sounds gross, of course, but it’s better than dying from C. difficile.  And here is something really interesting:

But the real news is that the microbial community makes a significant difference in how we live and even how we think and feel. Recent studies have linked changes in the microbiome to some of the most pressing medical problems of our time, including obesity, allergies, diabetes, bowel disorders and even psychiatric problems like autism, schizophrenia and depression [...] Researches generally can’t say for sure if changes in the microbiome cause certain conditions, or merely occur as a consequence of those conditions.

(Source: “The Body Eclectic”, Smithsonian, May 2013, pages 40-47)

When a woman comes together with her husband, she’s receiving more than just semen.  She’s also being “seeded” by receiving a big dose of his microbiome inside her, a microbiome which literally affects who she is and how she thinks and feels.  In a very real sense, we become part of the men we have sexual relations with.

I am only wondering aloud here, but does it not seem that it would be stressful to a woman’s body and mind to receive the microbiomes of numerous men?  Wouldn’t her body be able to adapt and function better if she only received that from one man?  And doesn’t it make sense that she would bond deeply with that one man, given that part of him is now physically a part of her, affecting the very way she perceives the world?

This seems like another excellent reason for early, life-long marriage for women.

From the Word of the Lord:

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’  ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Mark 10: 6-9

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 1 Corinthians 6:16

Behold your modern White man of the West. Honored descendant of great warriors:

…brilliant thinkers:

… and sturdy yeomen:

Fatter, wimpier, more pathetic. Bequeathed a noble heritage that perhaps surpasses every other culture’s heritage come before or since, the modern Western White man disgraces his forebears in all manner, by every measure. His disgrace and capitulation to pampered weakness is so complete, the great men of his lineage would scarcely recognize him as human, let alone as a child of their righteous loins.

He submits to the raping of his countries’ largesse by invading foreigners and citizen subversives. He excuses the actions of those who would sooner wipe him from the face of the earth, and whips himself into a fervid masochistic spectacle for imagined sins purged on the altar of social standing. He spits on his brothers for a pittance and he salts the soil from which his dwindling posterity must grow. He amuses himself with parlor games and slick sophistry, while he hypocritically runs from the very heart of his words to outpost gardens that shelter his sermonizing from scrutiny. He has let his women run wild, appeasing their last whim, and in return has been rewarded with their total disrespect for his pleasure, for his dignity, for his presumption. He indulges in stupefying drugs of the belly and the mind, concentrated by his soft-pedal puppeteers for maximum potency, and loses himself in petty pop culture distractions so perfectly crafted to sedate any spark of fighting spirit or any glimmer of awareness at his decrepit prospects. He licks the boots of his self-assumed betters and endures their debt-propped credentialist servitude in hopes of a place at the shrinking table, or he denies betterment and retreats to a spiteful underculture of crass gluttony and exhilarating dysfunction. He dutifully mouths ruling class slogans as he bristles incoherently within a maze of diverse strangeness and under the gaze of cold surveillance. He wars with his masculine essence, surrendering to caricature or to simulated castration.

He farms gold, he uploads, he downloads, he pants loads, he MGTOWs, he cube codes, he Insta-chodes, he’s friendzoned, he faps alone, he dates low, he marries old, he’s sorta ‘mo (he’s proud to show), he cornholes, he corn sows, he’s a cuddle pro, he tucks a micro, he’s equality yo, he’s a harmless bro, he fucks slow (first licks her hole), no means no (as he well knows), he’s wow just wow (brash scares him so), he’s status quo, he’s a quota goat, his girlfriend’s gross (he won’t tell her though), he nuzzles cows, he scrapes and bows, he’s a cog-to-go, he luvs a ho, his titties grow, he’s GIRL YOU GO!, his ex-wife’s boyfriend spends his dough, his girlfriend fucked an asshole…

…he knows no home to call his own.

The modern Western White man is one fat fold away from watching forlornly as his scepter and orbs of manly pride dip below a tragic horizon, forever out of sight.

But, hey, those smartphones are nifty, right? You can use them to call for help when another fat feminist or ingrate racial huckster shits in your face for fun and profit.

Filed under: Beta, Goodbye America, Ridiculousness

It is our hope that our daughters will marry young, ideally around age 19; I have already begun gently talking to the middle-schoolers about the importance of marriage and taking seriously from an early age the search for a suitable husband.

How young should a girl marry?  In most states, according to  Teens / Minors Marriage License laws, if you are 16 or 17 years old, you can marry with written parental consent. If you are 15 or younger, you will need both parental consent and the approval of the probate court.

Although I would prefer our daughters to wait until around age 18 to marry, if one of them met a highly appropriate young man, and both of the families were in agreement that they would make a good marriage match, I would consider allowing them to marry at 17, which is the age my mother married my father, who was 19.  Sixteen or younger seems very young to me and I would probably encourage them to wait a bit, simply because babies tend to follow marriages.  However, if one of our daughters married at 17 and immediately became pregnant, I still don’t think that’s such a big problem; after all, by the time I was 13, I was regularly baby-sitting in the evenings for families with toddlers and babies.  Baby-sitting is not as great a responsibility as parenting, of course, but if a girl begins to babysit by 12 or 13, then by 18 she should have enough experience with children to manage one of her own if she is married.  Proverbs 17:6 says Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers, so why discourage our children from marrying and having children?

How has the age of marriage changed over time?  Did teen-age marriages use to be common?  The U.S. began tracking age of marriage in 1890, but according to the U.S. Census, in 1840 the average age at first marriage for women is estimated to have been between 21 and 22 years of age.  Here are the more modern statistics:

Median Age at First Marriage, 1890–2010

Year	Males	Females
1890	26.1	22.0
1900	25.9	21.9
1910	25.1	21.6
1920	24.6	21.2
1930	24.3	21.3
1940	24.3	21.5
1950	22.8	20.3
1960	22.8	20.3
1970	23.2	20.8
1980	24.7	22.0
1990	26.1	23.9
2000	26.8	25.1
2010	28.2	26.1
2012	28.6	26.6

From the lowest average age of around 20 in the 1950s and 60s, there has been an increase of nearly seven years in age for women.  That’s a pretty significant jump in only fifty to sixty years, not to mention the fact that the “never married” category has significantly increased as well.

So, what are the reasons for girls waiting so long to marry?  There are three main objections that are usually raised in opposition to early marriage.

1. They are not mature enough.

One of the main arguments I hear is that girls under 22 are simply too immature for what marriage entails.  But these girls are already having sex; if they are mature enough to have sex with a string of boys, surely they are mature enough to be married to one.  It’s a safer bet than trying out a bunch of different guys, especially considering the fact that a woman’s risk of divorce increases as her partner count increases. If they are old enough to go away to college and live on their own, they are old enough to live with a spouse.  It never ceases to amaze me when parents think their immature daughters would do well to move away from home, travel around Europe, and sleep with a bunch of guys, but that they couldn’t possibly handle having a husband.  It’s a completely illogical position to hold.

Consider this, from Wikipedia’s Adolescent sexuality in the United States:

Percent of teens who claim to have had sex, by age

Age	Boys	Girls
14	7.9%	5.7%
15	14.6%	13.0%
16	25.3%	26.8%
17	39.4%	43.1%
18	54.3%	58.0%
19	65.2%	70.1%

In Further thoughts on moral agency, Donalgraeme explains:

When the cost of sex is cheap, young adults will pursue it. Without a great deal of self-control, pre-marital sex is going to happen, and young adults are not known for their self-control. And even self-control might not be enough. I doubt that a hundred years ago it was only the cost of sex which made it rare; parents almost certainly took steps to protect their daughters. … In an age where the cost of sex is cheap, the only way to keep your daughters from engaging in pre-marital sex is to keep them away from men or for them to marry early.

By the time they are eighteen, the majority of girls are already sexually active, which is why we should remember the story of the woman in Roissy’s Five Minutes Of Alpha = Fifty Years Of Pining; it only took one man to ruin that woman for life, contributing to an unfulfilling marriage and eventual divorce for her.  I would much rather have my daughters marry young and bond hard to that one man than to be the metaphorical piece of tape that has been stuck to too many different things and can no longer stick to anything.

2. They will just end up divorced.

Another reason that people sometimes object to young marriage is because young-marrieds face an increased risk of divorce.

But why is this so?

In Are young marriages doomed to divorce?, Dalrock explains four possible reasons:

1. Young marriage increases divorce risk because young women “don’t know who they are” yet.
2. Women with higher IQs tend to go to college, and women who go to college tend to marry later.  Given that IQ tends to negatively correlate with divorce, this could be what is actually being observed…
3. Some percentage of young marriage (especially very young marriage) may be associated with impulsiveness, which itself would increase divorce rates.
4. Divorce rates are highest when women are youngest and have the best chance of remarriage.  Couples who marry when the wife is young are exposed to higher risk of divorce due to the wife being more attractive to other men.

He examines data that lends a lot of support to number 4.  Although he believes that all four factors probably contribute to the increased risk of divorce for young-marrieds, he concludes that these risks are not insurmountable and that young marriage comes with benefits:

the idea that young marriages inherently have uncompensated risk for divorce seems to be very much in question.  If you understand the risk factors of impulsiveness and the benefits of higher IQ, and the woman is following the model I propose in part 1 I think you have an opportunity to significantly better your odds. Additionally, waiting to marry a woman who is older, more set in her ways, and has a higher partner count comes with its own set of risks, and this seems consistent with the last chart I shared for the UK.  Much of the additional risk of marrying a young woman appears to come specifically from the fact that she is more beautiful and fertile and therefore has greater opportunity to remarry.  With this in mind, waiting until your prospective wife isn’t as desirable isn’t a choice I think most men are likely to want to make.  In that case, the risk itself comes with important compensation.

I would rather have my daughters find their husbands while they are still young and can give their husbands the gift of their youth and beauty than to squander those years playing single career girl and dating around.

3. They need to finish their education and get a job first.

This may be true for young men, but this is not true for young women.  Even if the girl intends to pursue an education and get a job, there is nothing about being married that would prevent her from doing so.  She can easily attend classes while being married. However, the value of a college education is suspect in the modern age, especially for the kinds of subjects women tend to major in, and I will strongly encourage our daughters to consider whether they really need a college degree.  I have no desire for them to be the sort of women whose goal, as Dalrock wrote in Playing Career Woman, is:

having a career as a badge of status to be collected on their way to their ultimate goal of stay at home housewife.  They aren’t really career women, they are playing career woman

I don’t want our daughters to spend their time chasing after useless degrees only to find that when they finally wish to marry, they are 30 and cannot find a husband, nor do I wish for them to be in their mid-thirties and trying to have their first child only to find that they waited too long.

And even if their husbands are at the beginning of their careers and aren’t making a lot of money, so what?  We are far too materialistic in our society; there is no need to be wealthy in order to marry.  Let girls learn to be frugal housewives or perhaps work at a job at the beginning of their marriages; the struggle will be good for them in that it will strengthen their characters.  Then they can say, as Paul did in Philippians 4:12,  I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

A final word to mothers:

Hopefully you are preparing your daughters to be wives and mothers, but as you teach them how to care for children, love and respect their husbands, and keep their homes, don’t forget how important prayer is.  I began praying for our daughters’ future husbands about five or six years ago; not just that God would bring the right husband at the right time, but also praying for these unknown young men and their families, in particular for their spiritual development.  Marriage is such an important aspect of a woman’s life – don’t leave this to chance, ladies.  Start praying for your children’s future spouses now.  I already ask God to protect our daughters’ future marriages, and I declare in Jesus’ name that divorce will not come near them.  I ask that they would be protected from any abuse, adultery, and mental or physical separation.  Satan is not some imaginary character in a little red devil’s suit; he is real and his goal is to destroy marriage, which represents Christ and His bride, the Church.  This is a battle to be taken seriously, but most Christians are too busy sipping their lattes in the church cafe to bother with actually praying for and interceding on behalf of marriage in general and their families’ marriages in specific.  Don’t make that mistake; start praying now.

 →  "Girl Writes WHAT???" ←   posted her speech on her blog, aptly named "Owning Your Shit."  Follow the link to an amazing and pivotal statement.

Feminists like to yap about "Patriarchy Theory," but they never really explain it;  GWW (Finally! Somenone!) does, in clear (read: non-"academic") language.  Then she debunks it by comparing it to real oppression.  She goes on to describe how gender ideologues have used laws, policies and even human nature, to confer excessive privileges on women at the expense of children and men, primarily by "replacing" men (to whom women once had obligations) with the government (to which women owe nothing but their votes.)

Read it.  It's long but it's a comprehensive overview of how destructive and completely non-egalitarian feminism has become.

(I have been wanting to address the bullshit that "The Patriarchy!" is for a while now, but there's no longer a need; this speech sums it up far more articulately than I ever could.)

A much forgotten but very important lesson is that it is through hardships that we become stronger and better. Likewise, it is by doing things that bring us temporary discomfort in order to reap benefits in the future that we build civilization. It is by lowering our time-preferences, and pulling ourselves out of the dirt that we become something more than just animals.

Discovering this, you sooner or later realize the reason you look up to your grandparents when they tell you about how they fought to create a decent life for themselves and their children, and snarl at the Justin Biebers of this world. While Justin Bieber is a little megalomanical, dope-hat brat who actually thinks that anyone will remember his name or even care when he falls from grace. My grandparents worked long hours with often tedious tasks just to build something a little better.

Which will it be? Most people are making their choice – and choosing the way of “gimme, gimme, gimme I want it freee!”. You can either join these people as they partake in the civilizational nosedive into the mud, or you can extricate yourself from the herd. You need not make much noise about it. Just start working, saving, reading, building and anything else that fills a higher purpose, and long-term goals. Give up on the temporary satisfactions. Do some hard work.

This is the main reason that I’ve started running. Intellectual work is not particularly hard for me – I’ve been practicing since I was five years old. Physical exercise and most particularly running on the other hand, has long filled me with dread. I became a lazy slob somewhere in my early 20′s. And what better way to build character than do something you very much dislike, for the long term benefits? All those of us who believe that there will be no retirement, that health-care will become more scarce, and that less prosperous times may be around the corner – what better investment than your own health? I congratulate those of you who find it enjoyable working out, I most definitely do NOT. I will however do it, because it is an excellent exercise in discipline. It builds character. It teaches you to do things that show no immediate benefit, but massive long-term benefits.

Today was a bit of a milestone. When I started running last fall, I was still smoking regularly and couldn’t run a kilometer to save my life. Today, I managed to do 2.5 kilometers of uninterrupted running for the first time in many years. Clocking in at 14 minutes, its hardly the stuff legends are made of. The goal is 10 minutes. But I realized that my previous tactic of “running like hell” meant that after 1.5 kilometers, the breathing pretty much forced me to stop. So I slowed down a bit.

This is what they call “slow improvement”

Previously, I gave up and started shifting between walking and running. Jogging really is the most boring thing on the planet. To make things a tad more interesting, I tried interval running a week ago:

Interval running

Its much more fun running instead of jogging, the problem is you get tired fairly soon. So, the purpose of this post, you ask. Simply this :

Find out what you SHOULD be doing, because of its long-term benefits. Usually its something you dread, and have been neglecting for long. Stop making excuses. Make a plan for how to do it. And start doing it. I guarantee you that you will most definitely NOT enjoy it. In the beginning, there will be a little voice telling you to go home and do something more enjoyable. Tell him to go to hell. Build some character.

Men (and women) with character is what civilizations are built of.

A reader passed along this infographic showing the online nodes that constitute what is termed the “Neoreactionary Space”, which you can read about at the source.

I don’t have anything to add, except to say that the Chateau node should be bigger, hairier, and swinging insouciantly.

Filed under: Hope and Change

I used to refuse to take a position on the “left/right-scale”. I figured that as a libertarian, I couldn’t care much about either side. But that was then, and this is now. There is, unfortunately, no way to stay out of it. The ultimate question boils down to this :

“Do you believe in egalitarianism, or not?”

If you don’t, you belong on the right. If you do, you belong on the left. Now, some people have claimed that egalitarianism is a Christian idea to to start with. This is at best a half-truth, and sort of misses the point. Christianity teaches that indeed – in the eyes of our Lord we are all equal – or our standings even reversed (the first shall be last and the last shall be first). But Christianity ALSO teaches that each person is born into a place in this world, and it is not our job to question it. Working to improve your lot in life is not blasphemy, but it will give you no favours when judgement day arrives. You cannot buy a ticket into heaven, rather you put yourself at risk of serving mammon instead of God, as you start worshiping the wealth of this world. Thus, if Christians believe in egalitarianism, it is solely in regards to our places in the next world, not in this.

The medieval “Totentanz” (Dance of Death) signifying our equality in death

Also, since we all really, really, really need some real culture, you WILL sit through this performance of Totentanz by Franz Liszt :

The left thoroughly worship the wealth of this world, which is the reason that they cannot stand the idea that it is not equally distributed. In addition to this, they find that since they are Godless creatures, they must fight to take as much as they can in this world before they die. Usually, they are people to lazy to actually work to improve their personal standings, so instead they take up a banner and project their own wants and desires unto an entire class of people, and thereafter try to serve their high time-preferences by political action.

And in the middle of this spectacle, soon about to go horribly wrong, we are going to have to decide. Even libertarians. If you are an egalitarian, then live with the consequences of that. Live with the fact that even if you reach utopia, there will be no standards, no seeking for truth and justice, no striving for higher morals, there will only be you, and everyone else, and no one can ever have an opinion about the actions of others. No one may discriminate, no one may actively pursue anything that involves anything more than their own ego – because it is oppression.

And that is why I’m on the right. Sure, there is lots of discrimination. But discrimination, on the right grounds, is what builds society. And sure, there are ideals you must live up to – there are things that are scorned and laughed upon – especially any unability to live according to the current rules of what is civilized. There might be codes of conduct, strange old rituals, dress codes, mandatory sorting into hierarchies, and all those sort of things we have learned are silly old oppressive mechanisms of the Old society. But regardless of what one thinks, at least it is a framework within which one can live a decent and honest life. In an egalitarian society, you won’t find a man in a million living decently and honestly, because there is no benefit of doing so.

Egalitarianism is a revolt against nature.

So, for those of you who have thoroughly discarded the idea that we must all be equal in anything else than rights, I would recommend the following post by Aurini which set my brain off spinning to create this little rant. In it, he goes through feminism, strange ideals of women, why “rape culture” has arrived in the West (earlier known best for protecting women against bad male behaviour)

I really feel mostly sorry for women in the modern world. Why? Because I’m an old-school kind of guy who like the idea of chivalry, but also because women are being dealt most damage (much of it self-inflicted). Here is my advice : Do not conform to the tenets of modernity. Stop caring what magazines and television says about health, looks, ideals and what you should be doing with your life. Be a healthy, moral, trustworthy individual. Stop ignoring reality. If you want to be treated like a nice person, be a nice person. If you want to be treated like a pretty person, be a pretty person. If you want to be treated like an intelligent person, be an intelligent person. We can’t have it all – we are all born into one body, one position in society, one civilization (or lack thereof) and one time in history. Much of this cannot be changed. Learn to accept that. Some of it, however, can be changed if you are willing to put into the effort.

And most importantly, start thinking outside the narrow, pathetic little box modern people stick their head into at the age of thirteen and never again come out. I did, with the result of learning economics, returning to Christianity, starting to read history, dreaming of becoming a farmer, changing employer, deciding to start living a healthy life and a bunch of other things, all unimaginamble as the person I was a few years ago. Maybe it’s called growing up, but whatever it is most of you desperately need to start really friggin’ soon, unless you are going to waste your life on meaningless nonsense.

And if you do, most of you will sooner or later start to self-identify as rightwing.

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I went to bed with the intention to spend the morning writing, and well… obviously that’s not happening with what’s going on. I’m stuck to the Boston police scanner. Good thing there’s two nap times a day and it’s Friday. Wow, it’s Friday already? Double WTF.

What else is going to happen this week? What is it about this week in history?

1775 – American Revolution began
1865 – Lincoln assassination
1947 – Start of the Cold War
1961 – Bay of Pigs
1983 – Lebanon embassy bombing
1993 – Waco siege
1995 – OKC bombing
1999 – Columbine shooting
This year – Boston and West

We stopped in West, TX just last Friday on the way to our vacation destination. Captain M had a kolache, and I had a gingerbread cookie. I think nearly every Texan in this area has stopped there at some point for awesome Czech goodies. It’s only about an hour south of us.

Crazy. More reminders that life is fleeting.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: april crazies, boston marathon, west tx explosion