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Rule 5: Katherine Roll

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Posted on July 2, 2014 in Obsessions, Rule 5, The Culture

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Children are a major disappointment

Posted on July 1, 2014 | 3 comments

Children are a major disappointment in most cases, which is why I say that the modern ideology of parenting is baloney. People who don’t have them aren’t missing anything they really need. They’re not helping keep the race in business, no, but they’re not suffering for it either.

Children are mainly hard work and lots of expense and very little return. Other than the tax write-off, which ought to be a whole lot bigger. They start off well enough, even amusing, but they soon grow into indifferent adolescents and, eventually, contrary adults who forget all about who brung ’em.

I used to wonder why my parents, especially my mother, kept bugging me to have children. Now I know. They were getting even.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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Posted in Mr. Boy, The Culture, The Economy

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Soccer: A clear sign of dementia

Posted on June 30, 2014 | 2 comments

At the risk of further upsetting Mr. Goon, who adores soccer (probably because he came up in the Soviet Union where there was little else to do), I couldn’t ignore this piece about soccer fanatics (the origin, BTW, of the contraction “fan”) using laser pointers to injure goalies.

Nor this incisive comment by Estragon about America’s decline with the (so far, thankfully, miniscule) rise here of soccer popularity:

“Whereas the youth of America once came of age in the bleachers trying to second-guess pitchers and managers and learning real strategy, nowadays we seek to emulate the Eurotrash, who crowd into the standing room areas of soccer stadiums and urinate on each other’s legs to avoid missing a minute of the ‘action.'”

Heck, soccer players have been gunned down for “poor play,”—how could anyone tell good play from poor in such a boring, sleep-inducing game?

Via Instapundit.

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Posted in Blogosphere, South of the Border, Texas Football, The Culture

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The feds’ party: Democrats

Posted on June 29, 2014 | 1 comment

Why does the federal government and its economy-killing regulations keep growing? Because it is the government of the Democrats, by the Democrats and for the Democrats. And people keep voting Democrat.

“The Democratic party today is, quite simply, the party of government and the natural home of the managerial class. It is no accident, as the Marxists say, that the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents the IRS, gave 94 percent of its political donations during the 2012 election cycle to Democratic candidates openly at war with the Tea Party — the same group singled out by Lois Lerner. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents the VA, gave 97 percent of its donations to Democrats at the national level and 100 percent to Democrats at the state level.”

Via The National Review. Doing the journalism the Democrat news media, which loves the Democrats and big government, refuses to do.

Via Instapundit.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Culture, The Economy

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Rule 5: The C String

Posted on June 28, 2014 | 4 comments

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Underwear, sort of, as opposed to beach wear, though the latter could work, too. If the surf’s not too high. There’s a C string on a Viola. I wonder… Nah.

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Posted in Evolution, Music, Rule 5, The Culture

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Curmudgeonly, yes, but also true

Posted on June 26, 2014 | 3 comments

“…I tire of our early 21st century world which is dubiously the rudest and crudest society in history, having jubilantly swept most of the etiquette of speech, table, dress, hospitality, regard for fairness, deference to authority, and the relations of male and female and child and elder under the fraying and filthy carpet of politically convenient illusions.”

Ain’t it the truth, with a criminal president and a news media that aids and abets him.

(Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!)

Via MyOldRV.

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Why you must not move to Texas

Posted on June 25, 2014 | 4 comments

First, because we have too many immigrants already and only a small fraction of them have come from South of the border. Second, because every story you’ve ever heard about how great it is here was a lie. Plain and simple. We have fire ants in every back yard, scorpions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas all over the place, and cockroaches as big as your hand. And there’s more:

As TexasDoubleDoc, a commenter at Instapundit, says: “The grocery stores only stock potato chips and coke, the roads are full of potholes, and gunfights break out every twenty minutes. The schools are in shambles, there are regular book-burnings, and everyone is forced to attend [a Baptist church] every weekend.

“Women have zero rights here, gays are stoned in the town square, and minorities must apply skin whiteners to blend in and avoid violent mobs. There is no true ‘nighttime’ here, as Texans frequently burn large open swaths of oil for fun. And EVERYONE rides a horse, so it stinks to high heaven from all the manure on the disintegrating roads.”

Plus which, there are no more jobs left anymore. None at all. Zip. All taken. So do us all a big favor and stay the hell away. Pretty please.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, South of the Border, Texana, The Culture, The Economy

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