the duchy of hetkettle trophish

how about these people, to start. they’re here, they’re trained, they’re bored, and they have an international outlook. oh yeah and they number in the tens of thousands.

hello, H-4 ladies: have you considered saving the world in your spare time?

ps. kind of a road map to what i was thinking. forgive the mess, unless you like it, in which case, here’s one better.

there’s “a flurry of voter registration changes” in pennsylvania, says a reliable relative.

go hillary!

ps. what rush wants, rush gets.

pps. the opposition gaming a party vote. whole states disenfranchised. why is these even possible? this is the worst democracy in the world. on the other side of us is dictators who hold elections. what is wrong with us that we don’t want to fix things? what kind of shitheads are we?

“if it ain’t broke…”? how the fuck would you know?

ppps. breathe. breathe.

it’s still true, as far as i know, that child sexual abuse happens mostly inside of families. the internet is a very small part of the problem.

so, it turns out that i can see incoming web searches again, and this post, about how seductive dance scenes in movies are structured with the boys doing the wooing cuz only the girls can dance well enough to show feelings, got hit a couple times with the keywords “seduce boys”.

first time i saw that, i thought, cute! a kid trying to score! and then, ick, NAMBLA.

but it’s probly adult people on patrol, isn’t it. that’s the majority position.

somewhere out there, the gays are waiting.

from a bbc interview, via:

well, that’s great, you’d rather live in a failed state than in a dictatorship, that’s your preference, that wouldn’t be my preference

let’s reword that.

well, that’s great, you’d rather live in a condemned building without clean water or access to doctors for your kids than in a mandatory public housing complex, that’s your preference, that wouldn’t be my preference

or

well, that’s great, you’d rather be raped and murdered by roving thugs than potentially jailed for dissent, that’s your preference, that wouldn’t be my preference

or

well, that’s great, you’d rather be forced into prostitution under a predatory warlord than not be able to own your own business, that’s your preference, that wouldn’t be my preference

it’s not that dear john has no sympathy for people trying to pass on their culture to the next generation — he believes in tradition — or that he necessarily believes suicide by cop extends to voting. bolton’s kid went to school here—

Located on 57 acres of rolling woodlands just off River Road, the campus encompasses seven buildings that house a new science wing and lecture hall, two libraries, a performing arts center with a 400-seat theater and new black box theater, art and ceramic studios and photo lab, three dance studios, a double gymnasium, an indoor competition-size pool, and a weight and training room. Outside, seven tennis courts, three athletic fields, and a new track round off the sports facilities.

— and if yours can’t, that’s your fucking preference.

ps. sometimes i pretend to be an anarchist. because of this, i know the difference between an equitable, peaceful horizontal arrangement and what’s euphemistically called a failed state — and i know that the latter takes a fair amount of external support to keep going — but from john’s perspective, eventually the ethnic cleansing ends, and that’s where you start taking credit.

mar 12. i think i blew this, trying to treat bolton’s generic comparison as he presented it. i took my example dictatorship far from saddam’s iraq, where both internal and external pressures created a very bad situation, particularly for those without strong ties to the government. the reason i did this was not because i was exaggerating life under saddam, but because i felt bolton was exaggerating the hardships experienced by people living in the former soviet union — the disbanding of which provided the template for the expectations of operation iraqi freedom’s near-term outcome.

wanna make sure it’s understood that i don’t think saddam’s government was a good government and i strongly wouldn’t have wanted to live under it in the majority, as second-class citizens — it was a long way down — a punishing life.

but my original sense still stands, which was, in answer to the perpetual implied question of, “don’t you think there was a chance for the ba’ath party’s forceful overthrow to lead to a better situation in the country?” — i still feel that no american administration could clearly deliver that — least of all one with ongoing financial ties to people and organizations that have sought to subvert popular rule in every other country they touched.

from the china syndrome, an excellent case for declaring the friends of the pentagon incompetent by reason of sino-insanity:

China is not the target of all this spending. Russia is.

wait, no, that was a commenter, with whom i agree.

or, put another way, is it like renting, to chain-finance homes?

i want to swing from ever greater rafters. and be able to reach the top of a chosen profession, maybe through post-graduate success.

but i live in a city that took 20 years to fix a bridge critically damaged in an earthquake. all my dreamed hopes are points on our collective mortgage.

deductible… interest… *croak*

ps. doodling