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Rants and Poetry of a Tired and Angry Man.

Just what the title says, don't look for anything too profound or earthshaking.

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I am my title, the typically overeducated, disenfranchised, socially dysfunctional loudmouth. I am the disgruntled employee of the month.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Atrophy.

Sweat in still air,
silent bodies bent in work ,
monotony and routine,
fluorescent hum and chatter,
safety harness rattle,
endless generator drone,
rhythmic tool clatter,
ethyl mercaptan and diesel.


Fog and night shift blur,
pre-sealed foil coffee packets,
caffeinated peppermints,
industrial solvents and exhaust,
tobacco smoke and sewage,
vomit and alcohol,
flickering mercury vapor,
high pressure sodium arc midnight matinee.

Stained concrete and shadows.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

I really wish I could take credit for this one but it was sent to me by someone else.

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children,and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loop holes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Odd.

A pair of cutoff jeans,
faded green T-shirt,
leather sandals,
straw hat,
sunglasses,
two quarts of premium malt liquor,
flank steak on the barbecue,
just after sunrise.

The best I've felt in quite a while.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Gotta Love that Ivy League Education.

In an increasingly hostile world, with the continuing proliferation of nuclear weapons and long range delivery systems; it is comforting to remember that our figurehead in Washington is highly educated, level headed, calm, cool, and collected...


and totally in control of his own emotions.












Yep...

That is definitely the finger I want to see on the button.

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