Rant By Proxy

I love PZ Myers,* I gotta say. He’s bombastic, aggressive, hyperbolic and can at times be a colossal douche.

He can also tear your logical fallacies up one side and down the other.

Every once in a while I get really steamed and want to point out some of the errors people are making in what we will generously call their thinking. But dear Jesus Prime in a tasteless magic cracker, it’s hard to keep up with this relentless pile of stupid. So I link to PZ because he says everything I’d have said, except perhaps with a bit more hyperbole.

There. I’m glad I got that off my chest.


*Yes, you’ve heard the name in the news recently: he’s getting mentioned along with the news that the Vatican has released its list of the worst sins EVARZ. And according to the Vatican, PZ Myers made news as one of the worst sinners in all of history—worse even than, to borrow a phrase from Eddie Izzard, genocidal fuckheads. What is this heinous crime, you ask? Well, PZ tossed a cracker in the trash. And not even a very tasty cracker, at that.

The backlash is enormous.

Woohoo!

… And we have a real president.

Remember, folks, the office of President of the US of A has a lot inherently wrong with it in terms of power to the individual and assumptions about patriarchal leadership—and I’m not just talking about when some douche gets in there. Our tendency to assume that Daddy will fix it is not a great one.

But for today, as long as we’ve got this president thing going on, doesn’t it feel damn good to have a competent guy in there right now?

And Another Thing

Not to self: watch out when expressing mild annoyance. Yesterday Mom declared she’d skip work and be home for the inauguration. “Great! You can wake me up!” I said, and went to bed.

Today I got a call from Mom at 9:55. Now, that's too bad she had to go to work, but I’d figured she could have called sooner. I was irritated and griped to my sister, who took offense personally and yelled at me, and then I told Mom I was a little annoyed and got “You’re a grownup. I thought you’d figure it out yourself.”

Asking a lot of an asleep person, I think. Oh, well. I got up, she got to see it, we're pals again, and I regret nothing!

Speaking of asleep, Obama is not the one unique politician who doesn’t bore the hell out of me with his speeches, even if he DID say "science" in a positive context. But his boringness is a good sign, because not once have I wanted to throw a shoe at the TV. I don’t think that’s been the case with a presidential speech for … oh, about eight years now.

(I know it's petty, but I just love to think of W watching the excitement and jubilation of the last few days--all the people talking about how this is historic and people are so excited and happy and how great this is gonna be--and just SEETHING with jealousy. "What's the big deal about THIS guy, anyway?" Now if we could just try him for war crimes ...

ETA: Okay, so I admit, we finished the CNN sentence when they said, "And now the transfer of power, when Barack Obama escorts Former President Bush to the East Entrance... " "And throws him down the stairs?" "Hell yeah!" "Picture it: Bush rolling down the steps, flung suitcase banging him in the head just as he's picking himself up ..." "'AND STAY OUT!'"

Also, apparently Obama has "great penmanship." My god! He's practically perfect in every way!)

Last Comment On This

BAHAHA.

Oh, Faux News. You're so cute.

Also, I present to you the best way to finish the sentence “Now Obama escorts President Bush from the White House …”, courtesy skellington1:

I was picturing him holding Bush's arm twisted up behind his back, and ending the sentence...and into the waiting patrol car."