Humor Labs

[pyesetz]

I'm on the free-public-email list for Humor Labs.  They haven't updated their website recently, but they're still cranking out the daily joke-emails.  Except they're on vacation right now until October 6th so they're re-mailing old lists.  Here is the one from July 10th, 2001:

The Top 5 Least Popular Street Names:
⑤ Vicious Circle
④ Psycho Path
③ Peoples Ct.
② Diminished Sex Dr.
① Nofriggin Way

What a blast from the past, eh?  Such a simpler time, when the Internet was new and there were still people working for the US government who could allow it to be known that they had decency and functioning moral compasses.  Not like our world today.  I had a job making pocket electronic computers that members of the public actually used — and the newly-popular Internet message boards allowed me to talk directly to my end-users!

And now, everything's gone to Hell.  Nobody wants me anymore as a greymuzzle programmer.  The Pope says World War III *may* have already begun.  Volcanoes and earthquakes and negative interest rates, oh my!  It has been publicly admitted that all sides in the Iraq war are now using weapons bought by the US taxpayer — can you say "bread and circus", boys and girls?

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

War's pretty much the normal condition for many states now. The UK government's happy[1] to be an extension of the Pentagon's cock, with stiff competition from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand as to who wants to be the most favored.

If you're a St Louis police officer, and feel like gunning down a black guy, that's no problem. If you're Netanyahu and feel like blowing up some Palestinians, who the hell's going to so much as say "boo!" to you?

Governments can do such amazing things - NASA, the NHS. Why are they so universally spending their time trying to sodding well kill people (at tremendous expense, as if that made it worse), knowing full well it's only going to perpetuate the situations?[2]

Stringing those elected frauds and liars up à la Ceaucescu seems like an increasingly appealing - even rational - option.

[1] And at this state of UK politics, it's irrelevant who's nominally in power - there's sod all difference between Cameron, Miliband, and Clegg.

[2] Yes, that's the question answered.

[pyesetz]

War has always been the normal condition for most states.  Originally, a "state" was an organization that waged war.


... Pentagon's cock, with stiff competition...

Foo!


Stringing those elected frauds and liars up à la Ceaucescu seems like an increasingly appealing - even rational - option.

Careful!  You might find yourself "inexplicably" on a no-fly list if you publically call for people to take the "rational option" rather than mindlessly obeying whatever the kingpin-of-the-day tells them to do.  The Americans are batshit-insane and they have massive quantities of guns (and not much else), so nobody wants to offend them by allowing "undesirables" to ride an airplane from anywhere to anywhere.  example.

It doesn't matter who you vote for — all politicians must first be vetted by the 0.01%-ers, so anyone who might offend them is unable to get on the ballot.

About the only good news is that long-cycle economic theory predicts that things will only continue to get worse until around 2020 or so, then slowly start to get better.