Bowen Craig We need a new Boston Tea Party…but for electronics. Unlike the Founding Fathers, we’re not being controlled by one senile asshole across the Atlantic. We’re being controlled by a cadre of home-grown assholes, through electronic devices that surround our lives, control our lives, ruin our lives. I’m not simply anti-technology. Some technology is good. Some … Read more
Jesus! It says it right there in the second paragraph of our founding document. “…that whenever any government becomes destructive of those Ends [and while I don’t know why they capitalized Ends, I do know that the Ends are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, by the consent of the governed], it is the … Read more
Being in the presence of water calms the human soul. It’s just true. The Beach, The River, The Waterfall, even the The Lake. Sitting next to them is calming. Hence catch-and-release fishing. Thus, sunbathing. Therefore, reading a trashy novel on the seaside sand. About twenty years ago or so, the national mood inspired more drinking … Read more
Late 20th century FM/AM radio is simply better than its modern equivalent, satellite radio. There was some pre-selection involved. You didn’t get bluegrass songs on the heavy metal station. You didn’t get lengthy hellfire sermons on pop music stations. What you did get, however, was some degree of variety, a slight sense of spontaneity and, … Read more
First off, I don’t think the tech overlords are actually going to be able to create the society they want. That vision is simply too far removed from anything resembling what anyone else wants to ever fully come to pass. But, they have convinced a number of corporate types, a decent proportion of our economic … Read more
With each new G the internet people add, life gets worse. Noticeably worse. Obviously worse. I know that all these G’s have something to do with the speed of service, or at least that’s what they claim, but if it’s solely about faster internet, then why does it keep makings things the opposite of good? … Read more
I came of age in the strange era when frozen yogurt was a popular pretend-diet snack. There was a little drive-through wanna-be ice cream parlor called T.C.B.Y. right off the main drag in my hometown. Even though, knowing they couldn’t compete with Greece, it still had the gall to name itself The Country’s Best Yogurt, … Read more
Any time you hear the phrase “Real Time Crime Center,” it means that your government is stealing your privacy. It’s the police watching everywhere you go, everything you do. It’s one of the primary reasons that America is NOT a free country anymore. Period. Unless we pass some massive national privacy laws in the next … Read more
As tends to happen in autocratic countries, America is now, clearly, in a Government versus the People situation. I wish it weren’t so, but it is. The state is now, almost routinely, just killing people. Killing people in boats in the Caribbean, killing American citizens legally protesting evil, killing the few brown people whom they … Read more
Maybe our grandparents had it right. Meet a girl when you’re seventeen, marry her, spend your lives together, pumping our kids, raising them, and never knowing that there were any other possibilities for life. It’s what our grandparents did, and theirs before them, on down the line. The Sixties, specifically the birth control pill, the … Read more