Random random stuff

When you randomize randomness, do you get order?

Shaun Evertson

A self-appointed scientist tries colorado weed

Simone et Shitster, New New York, 2020

Don't be afraid to skip right on by the rant down there below the non-rant stuff.

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Beautiful day here yesterday. It was still quite chilly but the wind had gone (mostly) down, there'd been an inch of snow overnight, and the sun was fairly blasting through the cloudy remnants of a retreating weather system.

I went to Scottsbluff to arrange for copies of some of my medical records and to collect 300 pounds of chicken feed and a bag of dog food.

It was a quick trip and a pleasant drive. I took a good bit of video but I'm not sure any of it is usable. If it is I'll post it tomorrow. Maybe.

I was a bit on the grumpy side and had to keep reminding myself, in the voice of Oddball, to stop acting like Moriarty.

"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say somethin' righteous, and hopeful, for a change? Have a little faith, baby, have a little faith!"

When I got back I noticed that one of the righteous, hopeful chickens had been too lazy to lay her egg in a nesting box.



Then I walked up to check the mail



It's supposed to be warm, sunny, and not windy today (tomorrow as I write this. Here's hoping!

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This popped up on my u2b feed last evening, marking one of the rare occasions when u2b's algoreythms aren't trying to propagandize me and/or cause me to peruse major mediagandatainment clickbait. The narrator uses a lot of them funny yurpeen words and so does the text description of the video, so I don't have any idea what the moving pictures represent. At a wild guess I think it might have something to do with landing West German, British, and American warplanes on the autobahn back in the glory days.



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Well slap my ass and call me spanky! This popped up too! I wonder what a Chant header featuring French Naval Aviation might look like, I ask of myself and no one else at all... ;-)



Not going to say a thing about carrier envy.

Which wouldn't be true of Aviateurs navals français anyway.

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The other day Sarge remarked that his head had nearly exploded upon reading a certain article. The article in question had made plain to Sarge the deep insanity attending the present state of American military procurement affairs.

When I read that an image popped into my head; Bull Meechum sitting on the veranda reading the newspaper and howling about chasing Castro down the main drag of Havana in his F-4. Which would have been an F-4B at the time, and that's a useless bit of trivia which adds nothing of value to the post. Anyway, I tried to find a video clip of the scene but a good 30 seconds of searching failed to produce what I wanted, so I quit looking.

Juvat commented that no one should be surprised, given Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Which is a bit of a digression as the point I'm struggling to reach has nothing to do with bureaucracy, But I've long been a fan of Jerry Pournelle and I was excited to see that particular squirrel in juvat's yard so I had to work it into the narrative somehow.

Anyway, the point is...

Yesterday my head nearly exploded when I attempted to enjoy a video of an author's talk before the Dr. Harold C. Deutsch World War II History Round Table. On the off chance that any of you kind readers haven't found the place yet, I'd encourage you to visit. There are some great lectures and interviews there. Some of the lectures are dry and crunchy as career academics do their best to kill any actual viewer interest in history, but you can always stop the video and cross that particular pre-embalmed history-murderer off your list.



Yeah, sorry, it's the weed.

As I was saying before the weedgression...

I clicked on a video, which I've decided not to name or describe. It was a "book talk" given by an author who had just published his tome, and it was about an interesting and uplifting part of America's WWII story.

But this particular author used the story -- in my opinion mind you -- to trumpet his particular brand of SJW wokeness about the Horrible Caucasian Racists Of America Who Continue To Run The Country To This Day And Go Right On Committing Horrible Race Crimes.

His starting position is that all caucasian people of America are, have always been, and will always be, first and foremost, racists. Except for fellow woke travelers who, like himself, are committed to atoning for the racist bastards who look kinda-sorta like him by calling them out at every opportunity.

In other words, hes a racist. But he's a good racist, because it's okay to be a woke racist. Less equality! More genocide!

Yes, racist stuff happened. Yes, it was often government sponsored, and reflected widely held views and beliefs which shit all over the First Principle.

But you don't fight racism with racism. It's been done. It's never worked. It never will work. End of story.

I haven't read the fellows book. I'm sure he gets a lot of the story more or less correct and that he tried to do a Good Thing. I'm sure he thinks of himself as a good guy who does good stuff.

But that's just intellectually lazy and dishonest bullshit. The idea of "good" people and "bad" people and the notion of a world made only in the postmodern/intersectional/marxist mold of oppressors and victims is precisely the poison which leads to catastrophe.

Am I being overly sensitive? It's a fair question, and I won't argue with anyone who draws that conclusion. My point remains, however. If we build our civilization on a crap foundation, how is our societal house supposed to keep standing? People who can't be assed to hew to foundational principles are doing it wrong. In case I didn't make it clear (which I didn't), the point isn't that racist stuff happened, is happening, and will always happen. The point is that not a single fact of history belongs in that garbage postmodern/intersectional/marxist narrative, which is wholly an invention of people who consciously decide it's in their own personal interest to shit on the First Principle. Because while all humans are human, some are more human don't you know. When it's "we good people" against "those evil people," it's a firetrucking cult.

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Be well and embrace the blessings of liberty.