Political Shit.

We live in a land of abounding quackeries, and if we do not learn how to laugh we succumb to the melancholy disease which afflicts the race of viewers-with-alarm... In no other country known to me is life as safe and agreeable, taking one day with another, as it is in These States. Even in a great Depression few if any starve, and even in a great war the number who suffer by it is vastly surpassed by the number who fatten on it and enjoy it. Thus my view of my country is predominantly tolerant and amiable. I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

--H.L. Mencken

For comparison... Cristopher Walken 2008!

Chore Wars

This is amusing:

Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting a few people in your house or workplace to sign up, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.

Experience points are tracked both as weekly high-score charts, and as ongoing character sheets - every time you rack up 200XP of chores, your character gains a "level", and their class changes to match the type of chores that they've been doing.

On a lighter note...

Check out this video of The Chasers as they seek to smuggle a real Trojan horse into various places. They only get denied entry by the Turks, who apparently have a good memory. I was chuckling silently the entire time.

Some thoughts

Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
of the rising moon.

–Masahide


no sky
no land – just
snow falling

–Kajiwara Hashin


Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die

-Basho


With dewdrops dripping,
I wish somehow I could wash
this perishing world

-Basho

I'm a little misanthropic right now.

Now this is some fucking justice. Can you imagine that here? fucking beautiful!