Reading between the lines till it's back in style

Latest from Lovelock, 'genius', grandfather, and all around nuklear hombre

With all of the guides to manhood out there for all to consume, you'd think by now we'd be have ascended to some higher plane of sexiness, but here is where Men are. Truth is funnier than fiction. And fiction is what we do. Fullstop
You'd think for a culture that prides itself on seeing into the crystal ball of a glamorous future that the cliffhanger wouldn't seem so plain.
Ole!

Our Commander in Chief like to wax presidential by endlessly suggesting that one day, just you wait and see, we'll all look back and see how right he was. I think the lives lost and the billions of dollars he sent 'over there' might sing a more morbid hymn for the ages.
Seals in the sands.

Ma Rainey and Columbus?

Harlem to Anatarctica? Wouldn't be the first time they saved the world.



B-ball is back!!!!! Apple pie had Jason Biggs. Roger Clemmons is apparently as much a hero as Mark Twain. The 'where at least I know I'm free' crowd growls over this bone. What could possibly come next? Hookers and wrestling? Casinos with stomach pumps? Opting in while tapping out?
Think I'll hit the showers before they cut the power.

Who took my marbles, dammit?:
Solastalgia
That explains my adult life...

Yeah, once I was shy. That was before illness(es) had chemical correctives so sanctioned, leaving the country became the crazy thing to do.....

It's summer here

Well here we see the intrepid travelers in their native element. Locutionary evidence of their location include the straits ferry, ponga trees, fennel, wine and abundant sunshine.
And hills, calf crunching, leisure defying, topographically messy hills.
Riotous vegetation. Possums, fer sakes.

Tilting Leeward

Lenny Bruce: “We all live in a happy-ending culture, a what-should-be culture. . . . We are all taught that fantasy. But if we were taught ‘This is what is,’ I think we’d all be less screwed up.”

And more able to change, adapt, let go?!?

Getting a little foggy in there? Wise old Kurt Cobb calls this the Cult of Continuity. 'I've got mine'

Three trillion and change on wars and this is can't make the newspapers? And don't say it ain't interesting, true to life, thriller material.
There are a lot of smart people connecting the dots, despite the blather that passes for entertainment coming out of the squawk box. And the media? Please....

There Will Be Blood.
As long as as it's not spelled out in my bills

A fellow Peak Oil kook over at Survival Acres puts living on this literal and figurative island it this way:
I personally believe that Americans are in very serious trouble regarding several factors, such as:

a) situational awareness — they have no idea what is going on around them and have no interest in it either;

b) comprehension limitations — they are so brainwashed that anything out of the ordinary is completely lost to them;

c) cognitive dissonance — they are quite unable to perceive anything outside of their comfort zone and will continue to vehemently deny their own suffering as long as possible;

d) they actually prefer their own bias, ignorance and laziness, it’s preferable to them because it does not require of them any personal responsibility or accountability

And I leave once more with words that speak more than well enough for me.

What do you think?

"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time" --Chinese proverb