Reflections From a Murky Pond

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Geekdom – The Gates Are Up

Ladies and Gentlemen, the gates of geekdom are up – or is it down? – these days. Geekish pursuits are no longer taboo or a social deathknell. Anyone can participate in them and enjoy them.

And that is a fine improvement from back in my day. Back then, the geeks and nerds were highly insular, isolationist, exilic, and rather badgerish in their protection of their “safe spaces.” As most labeled me as part of the Jock camp, this was a constant source of awkwardness in my youth.

So, yeah. The gates to geekdom are up. Head on in and have fun. 😀

Yes, that really is Detroit and not some beleaguered shithole in Haiti or in Sub-Saharan Africa. It’s a sad fact that some Third World problems are also First World problems.

“Make Tea, Not War,” is definitely a hot cuppa irony since tea and the love of- and addiction to it has been the cause of war, e.g., the misnomered Opium Wars. Also, the Tea Act and its results was one of the sparks for the American Revolution. So, making tea is hardly a choice vs. making war.

Societies are a lot like species. Progress aka Evolution more often than not results in something weaker and more easily domesticated deriving from a stronger, more independent past when evolution was allowed to progress without the controls and guidance of Intelligent Design. 😉

What has been happening in the West vs. what has not been happening in the East are the perfect example and control group for this.

Air Snort One, it flies higher than any other jet in existence… and everyone is wide awake for the trip. 😆

But really, all snarkiness aside, the fact that they found a bag of cocaine in a cubby near the White House’s West Executive entrance but claim to have no way of determining who left it there means of two things: they’re lying because of whose cocaine it is, or; there’s a lot less functional security in place at critical ingress points of the White House than most of us believe.