Michael Kindt's Blog, page 103
September 4, 2015
trixclibrarian said about Kim Davis, religious objection: duh - it’s not s good point. pacificism...
trixclibrarian said about Kim Davis, religious objection: duh - it’s not s good point. pacificism would presumably apply the same to everyone-it wouldn’t be objecting to WHO gets guns but to all guns - therefore the pacifist wouldn’t take the job issuing gun permits to begin with
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Very true, but you are looking at it from a rational perspective, an equitable perspective even. The great big giant excuse in all this is RELIGIOUS OBJECTION, which isn’t exactly rational. It isn’t that she is picking and choosing who to give marriage licences to–in fact, she stopped issuing them altogether, to heterosexual and homosexual couples–it’s her basis for it: religion.
Granted, most Christians in this country are what I call “Fox News Christians”, which means they like war and violence and Toby Keith and monster truck pulls and, oh yeah, Jesus.
Jesus’s teaching on absolute–you hear that: ABSOLUTE–pacifism is much more emphatic than his teaching on marriage.
The point is, so-called American Christians violate Jesus’s teaching everyday. Why is she taking a stand on THIS. Oh, right, because she’s an asshole.
September 3, 2015
About 35 miles south of here, we have this thing called the...
About 35 miles south of here, we have this thing called the Crazy Horse Memorial. It’s a massive monument to Native American culture and history carved by a white family right into the ass of the very planet itself. They charge admission and have become millionaires. Granted, they give some of the money to Native American causes, like scholarships and such, and mostly hire Native Americans to work the gate and giftshop and eatery, but, nevertheless, they’re loaded. They’re among the richest people in the state.
I wrote a story about hiking up to the top of Crazy Horse with a few of my friends. It appeared in my second book. If you happen to read it, don’t believe it because it’s all lies.
When Crazy Horse is done, the rich white family have promised to turn the whole place over to the Native Americans, so they have been carving it reeeeeal slow. Mt. Rushmore, 20 miles to the north, took 14 years to finish, while the face you’re looking at took over 40 years to finish. They’ve been at it half a century now and are nearing the 20% complete mark.
In 50 or 60 thousand years, when it’s finished, I bet the Native Americans will be totally stoked to get it. That is if there is still a point to it.
Anyway, pretty neat to look at, huh?
"I have to wonder just how many of those supporting Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ refusal to issue..."
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Jon Davidson, Lambda Legal Director
An excellent point (one rarely finds excellent points in American public discourse these days). Those who believe this clerk is violating the law by refusing to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples would similarly have to demand that one refusing to issue gun permits based on religious objections would have to “do their job”, even if opposed to guns.
And Quakers are not the only Christians who take Jesus’s teaching of absolute pacifism seriously. Mennonites, the Amish, Christadelphians, and Seventh Day Adventists are also among the “peace churches”, historically anyway…
September 2, 2015
I think pre-nups should be outlawed.
Rich motherfucker wants to marry a hottie 30 years his junior? He should put his money on the line.
Real love, after all, LOL.
It’s probably all just sophisticated prostitution anyway, but I always come down on the the side of the worker.
Look, people can make a mockery of marriage all they want, but I say you don’t get financial protection while you do it.
Call me old fashioned…
September 1, 2015
jmarie0621itsme:
early-onset-of-night:
hookersorcake said about IN THE BUFF: I’ve got a Phillip...
hookersorcake said about IN THE BUFF: I’ve got a Phillip K Dick book collection. It takes up about 4 bookshelves. 12" of Dick.
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Haha. You’re thinking of fangirling, which is a subset of buffing, true, but not exactly what I’m talking about. Fangirling is person based. I myself fangirl about Tim Gunn, Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Heller (who only wrote 2 books, so my dick is pretty short). Hemingway (for technical reasons), Burt Reynolds (for obvious reasons), obviocity for reasons.
Life is short and we are bored, so let’s make shit up!
Are two of my favorite men disagreeing?
Heck no! I love Jade and secretly want to touch his Philip K. Dick :)
hookersorcake said about IN THE BUFF: I’ve got a Phillip K Dick book collection. It takes up about...
hookersorcake said about IN THE BUFF: I’ve got a Phillip K Dick book collection. It takes up about 4 bookshelves. 12" of Dick.
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Haha. You’re thinking of fangirling, which is a subset of buffing, true, but not exactly what I’m talking about. Fangirling is person based. I myself fangirl about Tim Gunn, Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Heller (who only wrote 2 books, so my dick is pretty short). Hemingway (for technical reasons), Burt Reynolds (for obvious reasons), obviocity for reasons.
Life is short and we are bored, so let’s make shit up!
In The Buff
Some people are all about something. Some people, for example, are all about chickens. They have chicken dish towels and chicken dish rags and chicken oven mitts. They have chicken calendars and chicken bed sheets. Chicken figurines dot their living spaces like little, made-in-China sentinels guarding against sanity. I personally know a person who’s all about cows and has cow everything. I was telling an imaginary friend about the All About People and he said, “Dude, I totally know a guy who’s all about tractors. He wears tractor t-shirts and wears tractor trucker hats and has a bumper sticker that says ‘My other car is a tractor’, even though it’s really a Toyota Corolla. He writes people John Deere letters and keeps little toy tractors on the shelves where his books should be.”
I’ve always wanted to be a buff. The All About People have obviously gone beyond buff, but I think buffdom would suit me. I tried my hand at being a Civil War buff but couldn’t pull it off because I’m not interested in the Civil War at all. I’ve always preferred the Revolutionary War. So, I became a Revolutionary War buff. I couldn’t pull that off either, though, because once you’ve read one comprehensive, college-level book on the Revolutionary War, you’re pretty much done.
Buffdom is book-centric, I’ve noticed, and so am I. I guess that’s why I thought it was for me. Buffs always have a lot of books on the buff they buff out on. I went to a garage sale once and there were hundreds of books on military planes. Bombers, fighters, fuelers. transport planes, cargo planes, planes you jump out of, planes you get back into, only to jump out of again. They were all planes that either directly or indirectly killed people, though.
“So that’s this guy’s buff, huh?” I thought. “War planes. I wonder why he’s selling it for a quarter apiece?”
I looked around, but there was no guy to be seen. The garage sale was being run by a single middle-aged woman.
“Maybe he died,” I thought. “Maybe in a plane crash.”
I suppose, conceivably, a woman could be a war plane buff, but why the fuck for? It’s stupid when a man is a war plane buff. But, I guess if suffragism has taught us anything over the last hundred or so years, it’s that women are equally stupid as men.
And why is buffdom so often war-centric? Nobody is a Dot Com Boom buff or a Reconstruction Era buff or a High Church/Low Church Controversy Within Protestantism buff. It’s so often war.
I hate war, so maybe buffdom is out for me, despite it being delightfully book-centric.
Frogs. Maybe I’ll be all about frogs.
August 30, 2015
Why is cash always cold and hard? How come it’s never warm and soft?
“I have in my pocket $1,000 in warm, soft cash.”
‘The morning I left for college he walked into my room.
He held out his hand. And it was filled with money.
A big sweaty wad of money.
And he said, “I don’t want you to ever come back.”
I just grabbed him and I hugged him.’ - As good as it gets
August 29, 2015
Why is cash always cold and hard? How come it’s never warm and soft?
“I have in my pocket $1,000 in warm, soft cash.”
