Tag: imprecatory prayer
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Couple of meanders
Meander 1. An article at Curbside Classic pictured the S&H Green Stamp dispenser that used to be common in gas stations and grocery stores. The clerk dialed up the quantity of stamps justified by your purchase, and a string of stamps emerged. Why didn’t thieves just dial up some dollars? Easy answer. Pro criminals need…
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Were books better?
Literary types are always lecturing the unwashed masses about the critical importance of BIG HEAVY BOOKS. If you aren’t reading BIG HEAVY BOOKS you’re illiterate. I used to read lots of books, including BIG HEAVY ones. Did I get more benefit from them than I’m getting currently from social media? Not really. Through the 70s…
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More good things
More good things are happening this month! At least temporarily good things. A judge in Colorado issued an injunction to prevent the merger of Kroger and Albertson until the feds finish dealing with the case. Safeway has already been suffering from the costcutting moves intended to aid the merger and improve Share Value. FEDS, GET…
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Goddamnit.
I’m fucking tired of our fake ideologies. LePen is not “far-right”, whatever that means. She’s French. She’s just like DeGaulle. We called him “commie” because he frustrated our imperial lunacy. Now we call her “far-right” because she wants to frustrate our imperial lunacy. China is emphatically not Communist. China is Chinese. Mao adopted some of…
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Pile of crap
Some writers were praising Jordan Peterson’s latest Hope And Change conference. I listened to a couple of the speeches. Jesus, what a pile of ancient trite repetitive stinking shit. Same nonsense I was hearing from Romney and other Repooflican politicians and talkers. Our Precious Liberties, God-Given Rights, Unifying Force, etc. The audience was allegedly invited…
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Not mysterious
Via BigPulpit, here’s one Roman blogger who gets it. As a stock Young Person on the Internet who is plugged in to both Catholic twitter and baseball twitter, I’m astounded at how frequently I see one tweet from, say, a fellow Padres fan ragging on a Dodgers fan, scroll down a few tweets, and see…
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Beautiful! More, please!
Another fuckhead bank goes DOWN IN FLAMES! Silicon Valley Bank branch in Manhattan today called the cops on tech investors trying to pull their cash out as a run on the bank forced regulators to seize its assets. Police were called after ‘about a dozen’ financiers, including former Lyft executive Dor Levi, showed up outside…
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