Don Quixokie

The New Testament. Not for the reasons you would normally think however. If you want to argue with Christians, you have to steal their thunder. Know exactly what it was that Christ said and try to understand why. Christ rocked. Also know that most Christians justify their bigotry, misogyny, and homophobia by what Paul of Tarsus said. Remember that Paul was not Christ. At his core, despite the fact that he had grasped the nature of love, he was still a Pharisee. One of the group who had maneuvered the Romans into having  Christ  executed. Also the Book of Ecclesiastes, Old Testament. Ordinarily grim reading, but try to read it with the following formula in mind. If sorrow is the price of wisdom, then sorrow is its down payment. Wisdom ameliorates pain. Pain comes whether or not you are trying to learn something. I go into that some in Valentine for Nihilists. Tao te Ching - by Lao Tzu The original book of Taoism. It may seem difficult to grasp initiall...

Such interesting times with all of these Tea Partier in their tricorn hats and patting themselves on the back for be being such strict Constitutionalists. So dedicated to the vision that Founding Fathers had for our nation. Purportedly.  Never mind that they had to fight a civil war to give freedom to the slaves and add the fourteenth Amendment. These Tea Partiers are so very dedicated to our Constitution. Until of course they decide that it's inconvenient and decide that they need to start cutting parts out because, clearly, the Founding Fathers never intended for Mexicans to cross the border and drop their litters on American soil. Its not like the Founding Fathers were really all that or that the Constitution is a sacred document or anything. So, just to be clear, a strict Constitutionalists is someone who is adamant that the Constitution is a document that should be amended for political (the removal of the 14th Amendment to deny citizenship for child born on American so...

The Preceding was written to Tom Coburn Before Arizona Bill 1070 passed Before BP Before Unemployment Insurance had been Filibustered to Death in the Senate Everything I said to Coburn I say to all of you Republicans in the Senate You Never Disappoint Open Letter to Tom Coburn 4/16/10 Mr. Coburn I understand that you wear a lot of hats. You are a senator. You’ve been a doctor, I’ve even heard that you are also a minister. You’ve also been around awhile. Long enough that your record speaks for itself, so there is no doubt as to where you are coming from. You are the famous “Dr. No.” Fiscal super-conservative. Absolutely against gun control, against abortion, against the separation of church and state, against repeal of the death penalty, against gay rights. A double-barrel believer in the Reaganite creed that the government is not the answer. Government is the problem. You are against nearly all forms of regulation, intervention, or interdiction…unless it involves kil...

I am a man. A married, heterosexual male of 39. Being a heterosexual male, I like women. A lot. Not all women, mind you, a great many of them I could care less about. What I like are curves. The bigger the curves, the more I like it. When it comes to breasts and backsides, I am a connoisseur; an afficionado; an enthusiast. Please don't get me wrong. If you are a woman with an ample posterior, I will be the man who you catch staring if you look over your shoulder, and if you think you see lust in my gaze, you would not be entirely wrong. But, I seriously hope that you do not miss the look of awe and admiration riding along with it. There is just something about a big, round butt that touches me deeply, making me glad to be alive. It is almost a religion with me. High priest of the great golden ass. That's me.

Is your love so strong that you would sacrifice your life? Do you understand the mechanics of the evil that you oppose so well that putting yourself in harm's way will bring lasting change? It's one thing to believe the puppet show; that everything is fine despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It's another to be so painfully aware of what's wrong and feel overwhelming disgust at the cud chewing intransigence of the public.Yet another to try to sacrifice yourself to correct that change...that's Ted Kaczynski, suicide bomber, Guy Fawkes territory.  It's still another thing to be heading an army or a movement that is actively changing the public discourse; bringing about societal and institutional change. To have a modicum of support from above and a vast wave of ferment and movement from behind. Only then does your death, your sacrifice, make the wave burst the dam, jump the banks and nothing is ever the same after. Or, you can do as "V for Vendetta...

Nihilism finds its earliest and most perfect expression in, of all places, the Old Testament in the book of Ecclesiastes. The underlying theme us " All is in vain." Everything is meaningless. Quite a compelling argument. The preacher in the story goes on to say that Learning is Meaningless. Because "he who increases his wisdom also increases his sorrow." Also compelling...and instructive in a way I doubt the preacher meant. I always look for corollaries...the other side of the coin, the equal and opposite. You don't always find it, But sometimes you do, its always worth the effort to see if you can. And the corollary in this instance is beautiful.s It isn't always seeking to learn something that brings sorrow. Sorrow comes of its own accord, there is no escaping it. However, if you care to, you can find that more often than not sorrow can become wisdom. If sorrow is the price, then sorrow is the down payment as it were. Wisdom is the process by which sorr...

Its popular in some end times Christian circles to look at this as one of the signs of the end times. God no more did this than suffering a self inflicted gunshot wound makes you a victim of a violent crime . This is one that can be chalked up as a victory to Mammon. The Gulf of Mexico , everything that lived in it, everyone who made their living on it, everyone who continues to live by it, is a sacrifice to the God of MONEY. BP is their priesthood. Every single life destroyed is pleasing to Mammon, that is why BP is forbidding its clean up workers from using respirators or other safety equipment. If there aren't enough lives being destroyed this way, they'll start doing human sacrifices on the tops of their office buildings. It'll be quicker that way than slow death and maiming from fume inhalation. Why else would they be using a chemical dispersant that is both most toxic and least effective and that ensures that they'll NEVER get the oil out of the water? Thos...

What had turned the economy around after the Great Depression was the deficit fueled expansion of the manufacturing base during the second World War. The ONLY time that was the exception of Sun Tzu's dictum that no nation benefits from a protracted state of war. It was this manufacturing base that made America the economic and technological giant at the time. After the introduction of the Marshall Plan , manufacturing jobs began to leave our shores, with devastating consequences for what would become the inner city. I've thought about this at great length and often. The doctrine of manifest destiny which was used to justify the forced removal and near extermination of Native Americans was used to justify putting men on the Moon. Perhaps what is cruel and inhumane in one context could be beneficial, even essential, in another.