Entries from February 2008 ↓

John McCain may well be a war hero, and for that part of his life, he has my respect. That was decades ago. Since then, he’s worked hard to earn my contempt.

McCain, politically speaking, is no different than Barack Obama. They are birds of a feather. McCain offers us as a solution to all our problems the vehicle of the federal government. Since the federal government is an engine of rules and regulations, it is an anti-freedom vehicle. It promotes conformity. It promotes obedience. It promotes force. I don’t need any of what it has to offer, so I would rather burn in hell than vote for McCain.

I was driving home the other day listening to news and talk radio as I usually do. The announcer was playing sound clips of McCain saying something to the effect that anyone who disparaged his political opponents would be thrown out of his campaign. What? McCain feels it is more important to honor and respect all the candidates than it is to honestly discuss the merits or shortcomings of each of them. That’s the way I see it. He would apply this same logic to his own campaign.

How dare we bring up McCain-Feingold, that anti-constitutional piece of crap legislation. How dare we point out that McCain might as well be a Democrat. How dare we mention that John McCain is a sellout hypocrite who talks about values that he doesn’t practice, hasn’t internalized and cannot honestly claim to hold dear.

The bottom line on McCain is that he, like Hillary Clinton and like Barack Obama want government to make all the important decisions about the daily lives of individual Americans. And just like the other two finalists for President of the United Tards of America, McCain will ultimately make things worse, not better for the majority of Americans. Abdicate individual responsibility and replace it with mediocrity and leveling. Abdicate intrepid individualism and replace it with authoritarianism and conformity. Abdicate hope and replace it with government provided SSRIs. Vote for John McCain.

As far as I know, I’m a member of Generation X. If you are a member of my unlucky generation, you are caught between the Baby Boomers and Generation Y. It’s interesting how technology has affected these three generations.

Start with the boomers - they are generally afraid of technology that first appeared after 1970 or so. They still prefer to fly to a face to face meeting or pick up the phone. Members of my generation generally prefer e-mail because it isn’t time sensitive (it doesn’t usually demand immediate attention). The Y’s all seem to be addicted to an infantile bridge technology called texting. And texting is what I really want to talk about.

It’s an idiotic thing to be addicted to. Those tiny keyboards aren’t made for constant communication. I’ve tried it because I generally love technology. However, I refuse to embrace a technology that steps backwards socially. I’ve watched you Y’s with your addiction to driving and texting. You have a death wish. You have the attention spans of gnats. You couldn’t focus on an important task to save your job.

Embracing a technology like texting - one that forces a single core processor (the human brain) to overheat and eventually return a blue screen error - is a fool’s errand. I will embrace texting when it’s embedded on a multi-core chip or organic computing device that has the capacity to make it a pleasant experience. I’m not ready to drive and type. I’ve caught myself doing that on my Blackberry. I should have punched myself in the face for allowing myself to be trained that every response is so urgent I should risk my life to be available to answer e-mail even while commuting.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Congress telling professional sports what substances players may or may not use is like putting Satan in charge of Auschwitz because the living conditions are bad? Might as well put the heroin addicts in charge of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Some aspects of our modern American reality are completely idiotic.

Our national attitude towards drugs is one of those aspects.