Political correctness
a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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I’m sure most people don’t watch (or not watch) television commercials as I do. I generally mute them so at least my ears aren’t assaulted. I’d blank the screen to protect my eyes if I had some means of knowing when the program was back on (not that I’d really miss anything).
- All those chain restaurants display in their television ads display some massive amount of food and my reaction is, “There’s no way I could eat that nor would I want to eat it.” When I look at the spread in the ad, I don’t see a deliciously prepared meal with generous servings. I see heaping portions of fat, cholesterol, salt, carbohydrates, and more calories than I should consume in a single day let alone one meal.
- I don’t care if one fast food chain’s burger is bigger than some other chain’s. I just see it as a failed attempt to sell me more red meat and animal fat than I need in my diet.
- Is there some sort of decree that chicken and fish must be battered and deep-fried? It was reasonably healthy food until it got breaded and tossed into boiling oil.
- What’s with shows in the genre of Man v. Food? What logical reason would anyone have for devouring a 5-lb hamburger or a 32-oz. steak? Is food something to be conquered? Maybe back when we had to hunt for our sustenance but even then we only had to kill the animal, not devour it whole at one sitting.
- How about those super-sized sodas? Who needs a 64-ounce carbonated, caffeinated beverage laden with phosphoric acid and high-fructose corn syrup? A 12-oz can is more than anyone needs. Don’t people realize what that stuff does to their bodies?
Just a little food for thought, for what it’s worth…
Life and Music, a good piece about life. I wouldn’t have expected something like this from Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
For what it’s worth…
From The Huffington Post, here are 17 Ridiculous Laws Still On The Books:
- Missouri — It is illegal to drive with an uncaged bear.
- Maine — It is illegal to have Christmas decorations up after January 14th.
- New Jersey — It is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a murder.
- Nevada — It is illegal for a man to buy drinks for more than three people at a time.
- Wisconsin — It is illegal to server butter substitutes in state prisons.
- New Jersey — Once convicted of drunk driving you may never again have personalized plates.
- North Dakota — Beer and pretzels cannot be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.
- Alaska — Waking a sleeping bear for a photo opportunity is strictly forbidden.
- Connecticut — A pickle is not officially a pickle unless it bounces.
- South Carolina — You must be 18 years of age to play a pinball machine.
- Michigan — Anyone over the age of 12 may own a handgun as long as he/she has not committed a felony.
- Idaho — It is illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
- North Carolina — Bingo games can’t last longer than five hours.
- Connecticut — It is illegal to walk across the street on your hands.
- Louisiana — There is a $500 fine for instructing a pizza delivery man to deliver a pizza to a friend unknowingly.
- Ohio — It is illegal to get a fish drunk.
- Arizona — It is illegal to own more than two dildos.
As an Ohio resident, I’m suddenly very concerned about the drunken fish problem.
For what it’s worth…
Another month’s worth of mental flotsam and jetsam in tweet-sized bites:
- 01 – Choice between cabbage rolls and hot yoga. Culinary bliss won out over karmic bliss. Maybe I’ll do 2 classes Wednesday night.
- 02 – The temp job is kinda mindless and repetitive but I’m OK with that right now. Doing it for a living? Probaby not. (No, not yoga stripper)
- 03 – Great hot yoga class this evening. The yoga fairy smiled upon me tonight. Everything flowed, culminated by a near perfect shoulder stand.
- 04 – Good yoga class tonight. Parsva Bakasana still unattainable. Salamba Sarvangasana was pretty good though.
- 05 – So far the worst part of this “snow storm” are the idiots who still haven’t figured out how to drive in this crap. OMG! Snow in Ohio? WTF?
- 05 – Can’t I rant in the privacy of my own room? Ignore anything you hear coming from there. Let me let off steam, OK?
- 06 – Driveway is cleared. Heavy, wet snow. I’m good until more snow falls or a snowplow comes by. I didn’t miss this in Hawaii.
- 08 – Is Matt Groening a nudist? I like Futurama’s positive treatment of casual nudity. Would love to visit the Nude Beach Planet.
- 09 – Cleared drive & sidewalk after work. Will I have to do it again in the morning? Better to go to the snow than have the snow come to you.
- 09 – According to Yoga Journal quiz the right form of yoga for me is Kundalini Yoga. I’ve tried it but didn’t seem a good fit. Take another look?
- 10 – Just drifting snow in the drive. No point in shoveling it yet. The wind will just fill it up again. Sis, send some 64 deg weather my way.
- 10 – Good hot yoga class. Small classes are great.
- 11 – Good yoga class. Full back bend wasn’t happening but I did a rather nice headstand. Had a good chat with the owners too.
- 12 – If you half-ass half-assery is it quarter-assery? Inquiring minds want to know.
- 13 – Had a pretty good class this A.M.. Good workout, good sweat. Tired but refreshed. Famished too.
- 14 – Quality time together today. Brunch at Fairborn Family Diner and grocery shopping. Who says romance is dead?
- 15 – Long ago, in a faraway land, we ate pizza naked in the wee hours of the morning. Why? Because we were hungry.
- 15 – Not much snow this AM. Cleared the driveway in anticipation of the next round. I do hope hot yoga is on for tonight.
- 16 – Shoveled the driveway again. The mountains at the end of the drive are getting too high to throw the snow over. Had enough snow, thank you.
- 17 – Didn’t have to shovel any snow today. Temps may get above freezing in the next few days. That would feel so wonderful!
- 17 – Great hot yoga tonight. Towel helped keep the mat dry but need a longer one. Maybe I can put my sewing skills to use here.
- 18 – Good yoga class. Some areas resist the natural yogic state a lot more than others. Some of that may be mental blocks I need to let go of.
- 19 – I don’t know why Tiger Woods owes me an apology but if it will help him move on with his life then I forgive him. Now, Tiger, sin no more.
- 19 – @gymnosophy I question clothing, I question authority, I even question my sanity.
- 20 – Like I needed another blog. Adho Mukha Svanasana, getting down with the down dog.
- 20 – Great class today. Even core work wasn’t too bad. Warrior poses still getting protests. I’m very tired, thirsty and hungry now. Lunch!
- 20 – Why does it take so fargin’ long for my tweets to migrate to Facebook? Do they have to go through airport security or something?
- 20 – Spent a lovely evening with my grandchildren. We had spaghetti, popcorn & hot cocoa (not all at once). Fun times, I treasure them.
- 22 – RT @nakedjen: Life requires peace. Peace requires balance. And balance requires a certain amount of get-over-yourself. Amen.
- 22 – As usual, installing a simple ceiling light is not as simple as it should be. Builders half-assed everything. Curse you, Mr. Huber!
- 22 – Success! New kitchen light fixture installed despite half-assed electric box. Made it work. I am freakin’ awesome. Major self-esteem points.
- 22 – Looking forward to B.K. Power Yoga tonight. Hope I can leave my ego at home so I can be in the moment and just let go.
- 25 – Bryan Kest Power Yoga was awesome. Like his perspective. Asana portion left me sweat-soaked and tired. It was good, all good.
- 25 – Good yoga class. Still seems to be a lot of resistance to my natural state.
- 27 – doesn’t see much snow in his driveway but it still needs to be shoveled. Shouldn’t there be an app for that?
- 27 – 1st instruction for bathroom shelf: “Assembly should be carried out by a qualified person.” Did it anyway. Never let that stop me before.
For what it’s worth…
For some reason either the builders or the guy who flipped the house before I bought it thought it would be a great idea for the dryer to vent straight up through the roof, never considering the possibility that the average household clothes dryer probably doesn’t produce enough air pressure to send all that lint straight up 15 or 20 feet. When the dryer stops, all the lint that hadn’t quite made it all the way out succumbed to the forces of gravity or got stuck in the pipe.
After many years it became obvious to me that there had to be a better way. First I tried a water trap vent which caught a great deal of lint but a lot still got spread all over the house. Again, I found myself thinking there had to be a better way and it had to take the lint and the hot air outside. So I measured the window across from the dryer and made a trip to a nearby major chain hardware store where I obtained a half sheet of plywood, a dryer vent and a couple of door handles. I measured the window and cut the plywood down to size, then I cut a hole in it and mounted the dryer vent. I attached a handle to it so I could place it in the window on laundry day and remove it when I was finished.
I was a little off in my measurements, having forgotten to account for the inside portions of the window frame through which the board would have to pass. I trimmed it so it would fit.
We tried it out today and it worked pretty well. I still need to make a few finishing touches such as finding some foam rubber to help with the drafts, some kind of protective coating and a more elegant means of attaching the dryer hose. I currently have two hoses ducted taped together. It’s not pretty but it works and it gets the lint out of the house. Perhaps later on, I’ll look at making it a semi-permanent installation.
For what it’s worth…
Seen on FaceBook recently:
- Voter’s Remorse – Happens after voting for Obama.
- While it’s true that I’m disappointed by his first year in office, I’m still waiting for all the change that was promised and it seems to be the same shit with a different face, I don’t regret voting against a McCain-Palin presidency. The idea that Sarah Palin could have been a heartbeat away from occupying the Oval Office is pretty scary. For the record, I didn’t vote “for” Obama; I voted “against” Palin. Had there been a viable third-party candidtate, I might have voted against Obama too.
- Tiger Woods needs more than Buddha
- Perhaps, but Christianity may not necessarily be what he needs. Buddha is not a God to be worshipped or even an equivalent of Jesus Christ. A Buddha is simply someone who has achieved enlightenment and transcended desire which is believed by Buddhists to be the root cause of all suffering. Buddhists revere the Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta), who achieved enlightenment and then established the Buddhist teachings, but they do not worship him. Being a Christian doesn’t by any means guarantee one will not stray from one’s religious teachings. Whatever it is that Tiger Woods needs, it’s up to him to find it.
Seen on televison recently:
- Quietus tinnitus reief
- The product supposedly provides relief from the ringing, buzzing, humming and roaring in the ears. I don’t know if the stuff works but I was wondering how effective it might be in providing relief from the voices in my head.
- Optrix 3-D Bubbles
- This is some kind of toy that makes bubbles are requires special goggles to create glare effects. Why does the commercial make the distinction between 3-D and 2-D bubbles? I thought all bubbles were three-dimensional. A two-dimensional bubble existing in space just isn’t possible. Even it were flat it would still have depth. Just a little confused, I guess.
- Solving History with Olly Steeds
- I’ve found the show sort of interesting but it seems to be in the same vein as MonsterQuest, UFO Hunters and Ghost Hunters in that he doesn’t seem to actually solve anything. I don’t believe he found the Ark of the Covenant or the Nazi treasure (The Amber Room). Like the other shows, his methods seem questionable and his evidence circumstantial and inconclusive.
Heard on the radio recently:
Bankruptcy with dignified solutions
Apparently, it was some kind of debt solution scheme, promising you could declare bankruptcy and keep your car and your home while maintaining your dignity. My experience was that I got to keep my house and my vehicles but my dignity was among the first casualties of the process.
For what it’s worth…
Is the USA a Christian nation? No, it is not. If every citizen of the United States was a Christian then it would be a true statement. However, there are many other faiths other than Christianity in this country and to call ourselves a Christian nation belittles those of other faiths and makes a mockery of the First Amendment.
While most of the founding fathers were Christians and the majority religion was Christianity, they did not include anything in the Constitution to declare this nation to be a Christian nation. With the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the founders of this country guaranteed that all citizens would be free to follow whatever faith they chose.
Here’s a thought. Let’s just be a nation and start taking responsibility for our actions and treating other nations with respect. It’s time to leave our adolescence behind and become a mature, responsible nation, worthy of respect and emulation.
For what it’s worth…
 Over the weekend I picked up a cheap light fixture to replace the aging and sometimes not working florescent light in my kitchen. Today I removed the old fixture and once again marveled at the half-assery that is common to all Huber Homes. The electrical box was somehow tacked to the ceiling joist and contained a morass of wiring with splices that would put fear into the heart of a licensed electrician. To top it off, the box was just far enough from the top of the drywall to prevent me from attaching the new fixture.
So I made the trek to Lowe’s to find longer screws. But first I looked in the electrical aisle to see if I could find something. I found a ceiling fan mount that’s designed to be used where access to the ceiling is limited. (Adam used such a mount for a ceiling fan in his new home.)
I returned home and took another look at what I was dealing with. This time I decided that I really didn’t want to sort out the wiring and figure out how to remove the box. I’m still wondering how the builders managed to mount it there in the first place. I suspect it was mounted before the drywall was installed. The hole appears to be an afterthought.
 Looking through my miscellaneous parts and junk I found a package of faucet washers and decided that they would make excellent spacers to bring the mounting bracket down to where I could attach the light fixture. I removed the old tape and retaped the splices. I’m sure the electrical tape had been there at least 17 years, possibly even 50. I used about four washers on each side to sufficiently lower the bracket.
So now have a nice, new lighting fixture in my kitchen. It’s a little bit right of center and the ceiling looks like shit but I can live with it until I have the funding to do a proper remodeling project.
For what it’s worth…
In response to my Facebook note, Adho Mukha Svanasana, a Christian friend provided a link to Random Thoughts of a Confused Xtian in which Confused Christian posted the following:
Could never quite figure out how maneuvering your body into the crouching cricket position brings you any closer to God.
I’d rather pray and not worry about physically stretching something out of shape.
Hopefully after praying I’ll stretch spiritually.
 I don’t know how well I can explain it but I’ll give it a shot. Yoga postures, in and of themselves, do not bring me any closer to God. The postures by themselves are merely exercise. Yoga is much more than twisting and stretching and assuming various poses. Through the physical postures, proper breathing and meditation (prayer is a form of meditation) I make my body and mind fit for the spirit. In a way, my body is my temple to the Lord, a place of worship I carry with me wherever I go. Additionally, there are other facets of Yoga that provide a framework for right living, compassion for all living things as well as devotion and service to the Lord.
Yoga can be very spiritual but it is not a religion. In the practice of Yoga, I am free to follow my own faith and worship as I please. By quieting my mind, I hope that in the resulting silence, I will find greater clarity, stretch spiritually and be more open to grace.
For what it’s worth…
Another meaningless Facebook poll: After Tiger Woods’ apology, do you forgive him?
I have two questions regarding this. One, why does Tiger Woods owe me an apology? Second, does he really need my forgiveness?
Tiger Woods has done nothing to cause me harm, grief or offense. Yeah, he was unfaithful to his wife and slept around with some women. He’s not the first man to commit adultery and he probably won’t be the last. I certainly don’t approve of adultery but I’m not going to hold it against him.
Since he has not caused me any harm, grief or offense, he doesn’t specifically need my forgiveness, not that he’s ever asked for it. But if it will make him feel better and help him get his life together, here it is — “Tiger, I forgive you. Now don’t let it happen again.”
For what it’s worth…
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