Great & Terrible Vengeance.

[Aaron Burr]

First off, I can't work with crazy people. Second, I can't work with butt hurt addicted people. Third, any combination of the first two...I can't work with. Also, if you call me up and start going crazy and butthurt over the phone, I'll just hang up on you and go fishin'. Because that's actually how you win. You don't win by calling me up and acting all butthurt and crazy. That's just so crazy it hurts the butt.



Anyway, the reason I've been gone so long is none of your business. Some of it has to do with boredom, most of it has to due with endless doctor appointments. Mostly for my peepers. But like I said, it's none of your fudging business if I'm losing my eyesight. Screw you. I don't work for any of you. If I want to turn this site into some kind of portal for evil blind people that's my prerogative. Maybe I will, maybe I wont. Depends on how fudging blind I get. In the meantime, don't $$$$ me off. I'm a really evil cranky blind S.O.B.

The point is, none of what's been happening in what passes for politics in this country has interested me much lately. All I've heard for the past 4 years is the right emitting a collective "AAAUUUUGGGHH!!!" Which would be O.K. except I spent the 8 years before that enduring the never ending wailing's and lamentations of the doomed from the left. I find it all a bit tedious at this point.

People, this entire nation has descended into a reactionary cess pool of turgid political thought and constipated political action. It would be laughable in any other nation. In this one it's pathetic.

We're the country that invented freedom, baseball and the 64 ounce soda. We can do anything. Well, we could if we wanted to, but lately all we've been able to accomplish is perfecting the art of crying like a little b!tch in public. Every. fudging. day. It's all I hear anymore. Endless whinings about reaganclintonbushobamabiden. What exactly is all this negativity supposed to accomplish? I haven't seen the government shrink in size or stop dog humpin' my personal liberty leg. I haven't noticed the government running more smoothly or efficiently. And I must have missed the part about the people running the government as opposed to the government running the people. Ever.

Yeah, I realize we have some actual problems, real world problems that left unresolved will lead to catastrophe. That's step one. Recognizing the problem. We're good at that. That's our forte. There is however, a step two. Mapping out an effective strategy to resolve the problem. That's where all those hours spent playing Dungeons and Dragons as wayward youth comes back to bite our collective a$$es. Both sides of the aisle fudging freak out and come up with fantasy scenarios while throwing 32 sided dice all over the room. Yes, I'm looking at you, sequester.

I don't even want to recap this B.S. Jug Ears built this sequester out of butt tape and spit and Congress read the building plans and said, "okie dokie, Boss."

Now, having agreed to this deal...over a year ago....after planning and scheming over it for about year prior...don't you think a possible way to resolve or bring to a resolution or finalize or otherwise end and/or terminate this deal might have occurred to someone? You know, one of the people who's job it is to figure this stuff out? I'm just asking for a friend.

Personally, I'm somewhat disinterested because it seems obvious to me that our current political system is dysfunctional and unsustainable. I'm not talking about a revolution or some nut job Mad Max scenario, but rather simply stating the obvious. Our political system, the politicians and bureaucrats populating it and the general populace sustaining it no longer work. In every sense of the word. Our ends are never achieved. Our goals are never attained. The check is perpetually in the mail and the post office box has been broken into. My oh my, what are we to do as a nation?

There are answers. Fortunately we have the worlds history as our guide. The last time an entire international empire was burdened with a corrupt and ineffectual bureaucracy, a divisive leader, a dissolute populace and an overburdened military was around 387 A.D. in Rome. Battle_of_the_Allia As you can see, it wasn't the end of Rome. That happened about 25 years later. Sack_of_Rome

But as we all know Rome never disappeared off the maps. It just morphed into a slum and then a tourist attraction and eventually a low rent neighborhood for an up and coming Church. So basically what I'm saying is that the current shenanigans are merely a prelude to the inevitable. Which wouldn't be so inevitable if we could master step 2 and map out an effective strategy for problem solving.

Just like how Rome figured out how to deal with it's problems.

[Zonga]

> sigh <

Outstanding rant Burr. See, this is your place and you're an excellent writer and artist. Your creativity cannot be fully appreciated if it's limited to only 140 characters.

If I remember correctly you are already down to one eye, with a patch on the other one. It's none of my business. I hope and pray your degenerating vision can be arrested if not cured.

Self disclosure. I'm in a tenuous state of remission. My body has been mutilated, cut into pieces, and the bad parts thrown away. I still laugh and appreciate a level of wellness that could end tomorrow. I don't want to die of cancer, I want to die laughing.

You've created something good here and I appreciate it.

[Aaron Burr]

I do the twitter thing because it's quick. I can no longer sit in front of the computer for extended periods of time. If I do, this happens.



I would prefer to go deaf.

[Zonga]

So migraine, with visual auras, come and go and computer gazing sets it off. So sorry you are suffering with this.

[Aaron Burr]

Whatever. It's just the internet.

[Zonga]

I hope you can still draw and create artistic images without triggering migraine.

[AQuaintLife]

Something to do when your eyes need a rest.

Relic Radio

[JeffersonianAnarchyNow]

Quaint always says I have a face for radio... maybe we can merge your evil genius with internet radio? Maybe the 53% show? Evil Homes and Gardens? Popular Plotting? or perhaps more traditional ideas... Sounds like an invitation.