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On this whole bathroom thing


Posted On: Thursday - December 1st 2016 7:23PM MST
In Topics:   Genderbenders

In keeping with my goal, mentioned in the previous post, of sticking to the supposed subject of this blog, I will just tell a quick story related to this new choice-of-bathrooms thing.

At some tables at the outdoor part of the bar/grill, I was waiting for friends so couldn't help from hearing the two couples eating together at the next table, oh, and drinking a bunch too. They were talking about some law in North Carolina, which was either fighting this bathroom stupidity or adding to it - I can't remember. At least one of the women was pro relieve-yourself-wherever-you-identify, and the husbands were arguing it was ridiculous. It was all a pretty friendly discussion, and I guess entirely theoretical till I came by.

I had gotten some change out of the car, walking back brought me by their table. I was all "Hey, I heard what y'all were saying a minute ago. I'm just letting you know that I'm a woman" (I'm not, by any means.) "I'm gonna go take a piss now." They all laughed, but I kinda wish I'd thought of this last part: "Any one want to come with me? We always go in pairs, right?"

Man, it used to be so easy. I've got enough decisions to make; which bathroom to walk into shouldn't be another one. Well, one time I was drunk enough to have already peed in the women's restroom in the Red Onion restaurant somewhere in Los Angeles, California a long time back. I saw how nice and tidy the place was and I was wondering why they had pulled out all the urinals. That's all it took to figure it out. (Oh, once in a while the W will flip to an M, if it's only got one nail - that can be a problem ....)


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About the coming decline / zerohedge.com


Posted On: Thursday - December 1st 2016 3:23PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Websites

After writing 4 posts here over 3 days (believe me, the pace will accelerate, as I have tons of posts in my head), I realized that, so far, none of the posts talk about the idea of this blog, as advertised in the URL, banner, and in the article "What is Peek Stoopiditee?" to the left.

What I need to mention now is zerohedge.com, the first link I have on the blogroll. That site is still half financial big-picture stuff and about half politics, both US and international. It used to be more like 80% financial, as I recall the site 5 years back.

It's not like either my political leanings (libertarian/conservative) or financial dealings (conservative) were not already set in stone when I first viewed zerohedge in the summer of '11. The website, and moreso, its commenters, just present great big-picture explanations about debt, money, and so forth that really sink in after years of reading. There's no way to explain any of the big concepts in one blog post, and I think economics is just hard to wrap one's mind around. It's not hard in the same way as math, science, and engineering, in fact, one has to sift through much BS from the "experts" in the field before getting an understanding the real concepts of money.

I bring this web site up here to expand on what I wrote here as I believe the coming inevitable world-wide financial crash to come will be the most likely cause of crash in stupidity levels. By the last part, I don't mean that there couldn't be (and there already is, in a small way) a general awakening to the ridiculous PC and other nonsense that causes the great peak in stupidity to pass, but I think the financial crash is imminent and will happen first.

There are enough mega-stupid ideas put forth each day in this country to keep 100 bloggers like me in business. I will try to steer my posts, or at least 1 or 2 per day, toward the ridicule of said ideas.


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C'mon guys, it's all Cheerios nowadays!


Posted On: Thursday - December 1st 2016 8:32AM MST
In Topics:   Elections '16 - '24

I just called up a reasonably nice lady at Kellogg' Consumer Affairs Department at 800-962-1413 (thanks, Amren commenter for the number).

I had a nice little rant talk with the lady, bringing up the issue of the Kelloggs company pulling all ads off of Brietbart.com. After she said this was not political, blah, blah, I asked her what other advertising they had pulled off of other sites for various reasons. She didn't know. There's no arguing with people in these types of positions anyway, as it's not really their job, or in their scripts on their computer screens.

I had just called to get a word in, is all. After I told her that we would buy no more Cheese-its or Special K, and switch to Cheerios, she kept up the BS a bit too long, so I had to repeat myself about the Cheerios a number of times to get her to hang up first. Ha!

(I also ran the numbers for her - worst case scenario, losing $20/week or so from each Breitbart reading junk-food eater times, what 45 million viewers of the site times 52 weeks in a year - multiplies out to some serious mullah. Yes, I know this is a rectal-extraction-based order-of-magnitude highball estimate.)

Full Disclosure: All this packaged crap is slowly killing us - so it's not like the family eats much of this stuff anyway. It's hard to boycott people when you never participate to begin with - one of the problems with being a minimalist.

Fuller Disclosure: Breitbart is pretty damn unreadable with my browswers anyway - all kinds of crap pops up and keeps moving the page around while I'm trying to read the damn article itself. It's almost worthless, but nothing against the content. In fact, come to think of it, maybe it's the Kelloggs ads to begin with that are dicking up the site.

I'm confused at this point, so I may just install Adblock while I'm having a snack of Cheerios.

Come on guys, it's all Adblock nowadays.

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What if I got behind on my dues to the Communist Party?


Posted On: Wednesday - November 30th 2016 1:11PM MST
In Topics:   Commies

Just a quick thought as I was reading the transcript of John Derbyshire's (of VDare.com, purged during the 00's purges from National Review magazine) last week's podcast.

He mentions Frank Marshall Davis (people say he was MaObama's real Dad - who knows? Luckily, who cares, at this point?).

Quote: His early mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was an actual paid-up, card-carrying member of the Communist Party, according to the FBI."

I have been treasurer of a club before, and I had to keep up with the member's dues, meaning trying to get some deadbeats to pay up, or working out deals with them. If I were in the CPUSA, and I did get behind a few months or years in my dues, I would probably just tell the party Treasurer that from each according to his ability, to each according to his means! and possibly raise up my right fist, unless this was via phone or email.


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I am not a xenophobe!


Posted On: Wednesday - November 30th 2016 12:21PM MST
In Topics:   Immigration Stupidity

I wrote this up as a letter to VDare.com in response to this article about the growing use of this pejorative term for people who like to live among their own countrymen:

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Regarding Mr. Fulford's column, Dictionary.com notwithstanding, I have also been aware of the more widespread use of the term Xenophobe. I will tell you right now that I greatly resent being called this nasty term, not because I am sick to death of foreigners (which I am, BTW), but just due to my knowledge of basic chemistry!

Have you people (NY Times, I guess?) no shame? At no point in my life have I lived in any kind of irrational fear of the element Xenon, or any other of the noble gases in column 8 of the periodic table! I will grant you that the EPA got me freaked out about the element Radon back in the '80's, but this was no irrational fear. It was quite rational, until I realized the EPA were full-of-it like all almost all other US Gov't agencies.

I am a great friend of Neon. I think it is one of the most vibrant of elements, and I welcome it to our cities and bars. I welcome to our society any element with a stable outer shell of electrons. We should all appreciate a diversity of molecular weights, and not be afraid of and bullying to any isotopes, even those that shed a few neutrons now and then. No, I don't personally have a filled outer shell, but I have close friends who have Argon in between their windowpanes and aquaintances who suck on Helium quite often in order to talk like the Donald (no, the duck, get with the program, people).

To be brutally honest with myself, yes, OK, I used to fear the Alkali metals. Yes, I said the A-word, OK. However, it was only due to my lingering post-traumatic disorder from my tossing of a hunk of sodium into the toilet in 10th grade. I am currently in a 12 step program for this and have made the appropriate apologies.

In conclusion, I am shocked, shocked, I tell you, to be slandered in such a fashion, by people who wouldn't know the Lanthanides from the Rare Earths in a hole in the ground.

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FIRST POST - Am I a curmudgeon?


Posted On: Monday - November 28th 2016 7:36PM MST
In Topics:   General Stupidity  Music  Curmudgeonry

OK, I'm going live after messing with this URL and my doctored-up blog software on-and-off for longer than I want to admit right now.

I will try to keep a lot of humor in my posts as I write about the crazy, stupid, and once-in-a-while decent things going on in the country and the world. You can see this in the banner above and the "What is ...?" link on the left. However, I will probably come off as a curmudgeon much of the time.

What is a curmudgeon? You've heard the term, I figure. As a curmudgeon, my first beef is the definitions that appear when I bing (same as google, possibly less spying involved) the word. The definitions just involve cranky, mean, stubborn, cantankerous, etc. I have better connotations right off the top of my head than these idiots on-line (wiki, vocabulary.com, etc.). The curmudgeon is usually a guy ( with the exception of Florence King, whom I just found out died sadly about a year back ) who is just downright sick of the way things change for the worse (or thinks they do, more like) and is pretty down on anything new, even if he really hasn't thought much of it, or tried it. It really doesn't match the few definitions I saw just now, via bing. For one thing, it does not at all require one to be mean or cranky.

Anyway, by my, correct, definition, I can see that I think like this, but I think to be a curmudgeon, one must think this way without the world really having changed in a bad way. This is why I wonder: Am I a curmudgeon, or is the country and most of the world really starting to suck ass?

Take music, for instance. Yes, my parents really bad-mouthed the rock-and-roll, and said it wasn't good like the old stuff, so how is it different if I think the same of the modern music compared to what I liked and still enjoy? If it's just the same old story each generation or so, that would make me a curmudgeon - at least with respect to music. If modern music is, indeed, vapid crap and worse, then it's not me, it's the music, right? For this particular area, the answer is easy to come by. How, you ask? Think about this: even an old-timer who grew up in the 1940's or so will still admit to liking at least some of the rock-and-roll (stuff with a good tune) or at least the folk, pop, real country music, and the rest that was heard well after their youth. And now, you've got 15 year-olds listening to Zeppelin, AC/DC, and thousands of other artists from the 60's through 80's because the hip-hop is GARBAGE, the pop music sounds like crap too, and they realize it at their young age.

The above, and other thoughts - let me write about Windows software another time - make me realize that it's not me, it's the world that is the problem.

I hope to revisit this theme, one that most of any readers of this site may also ponder, during other posts.

However, in the meantime, could music this good ever be written in this day and age? (Spoiler alert, pshaaaww, hell no, in the vernacular of a curmudgeon):