🇺🇸 ⤑ well have I ever
For crying out loud! 😐 One Thomas Matthew Crooks took it upon himself to try and change the course of history, would indeed have been a direly needed latter-day Lee Harvey Oswald. He went out with a presumably noble goal, and an AR-15, and only just missed the ugly mug of the exceptionally obscene human being known as Donald f* Trump.
Ohh my, oh man. 😒 And ohh how certainly am I not the only one thinking the same thing.
What would Donald himself say, if it were the other way.. “Hunting season's open”? would be rather crude even for him, but he dam well mighthunk so. And in earnest, I for one sure hope so!🤞 Because in the face of 2020's madness, there is no other way of having it than wholly inappropriate.
For ask yourself: what future would await humanity with that abrasive dimwit at the helm of the ship of fools? The wise Zapp Brannigan would concur: Donald Trump may die, but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make. Aren't we!
F`f*ck's sake.. It just took.. A slight gust of wind? To be rid of this nasty windbag of a human.. Dammit, dammit, \%krrR\..
2/8/24 addendum: 🙌 KAMALA HARRIS! though. Oh how American she be; but suddenly, a jolt of hope, a glimpse of common sense entering the bipolar gerrymandered and supremely courted clown shit show that is US politics.
20/11/24 addendum: Well the nasty windbag got took the votes 😶 so
what's left to say. “May American democracy rest in peace...”? Madness. “And
unlike his first term there will be no guardrails.”
Maybe let's ask the ever so oblivious AI for some vapid
words that fail us: “And all the hopes that brightened up our past // Lie in
the murky shroud of darkness cast.”
A haiku, you prefer? If it is one (for shrivelled in autumn I can't right now
be bothered to count syllables): “Dreams drowned in numbers, // chaos veils
what once was clear, // hope fades, yet still stirs.” 🦄
🇵🇸 ⤑ history's sinister rhyming
Having begun this less-faux blog, I shan't refrain from utilising it the way blogs were meant to: to voice a heartfelt opinion entirely uncalled for and heard by hardly anyone.
Has anyone picked up on the eerie silence coming from Rafah? Reportedly 21.000 children are missing there. For decades on end in the Levant, history has been rhyming as it does, and it came to a macabre halt. Pure evil, brutal madness; grim relentless eradication of life, of thousands upon thousands of lives in one fell swoop. Another holocaust, what else to call this unholy vengeance?
Perpetrated by 🇮🇱 Jews no less, can't make this sh*t up — and the whole world looking the other way. Well done, Bibi and Gallant. If only there were time for The Hague.. Hitch a ride with Putin. For shame.
No words, so utterly TBC.
11/5/25 update: And how utterly continued it was.. Such cruelty and contempt, so savagely soiling our history. 😔 One upping Nazi Germany in ruthlessness – not even a century has passed, for Christ's sake, shalom chaverim.
but why stick to Jewish holocaust‽
..when there is thermonuclear holocaust. A good long while ago already, the internet, one Alex Wellerstein to be more precise, gave us this Nukemap. Far too lazy to simulate a proper global nuclear holocaust, a rather pointless endeavour anyway, I focussed on my former hometown. (In the absence of a proper image lightbox of sorts, you could right-click and "open image in new tab" or some such to see it in more detail. Click on the image to go simulate your own nuclear festivities.)
Dropped a gentle 100 kt on it ("common in US & UK arsenal" it says), and was quite content, once again, to have moved from said hometown to a place apparently snugly out of reach even of light blast damage. 👌 The same cannot be said of most all of my loved ones. 😔 That not said then, apparently they'd only have to keep away from windows after the flash might have piqued their curiosity. I'll make sure to pass on that good advice come Christmas dinner. 🙂 Unless I forget, or for some reason an actual nuclear holocaust unfolds before then. Just imagine the surreal spectacle.. 😳 But then it'd probably start in Brussels, what with the EU, and NATO maybe, and all, maybe.
Tangents within tangents - once BXL was many people's belle,
but nowadays, to me, an outsider to be sure, it has lost most of it appeal. 😔
Overall not that belle anymore. Where to begin.. If just taking a wrong turn
after getting of the train brings the smell of urine, and perhaps some petty
theft, surely a capital lost its appeal? [clarification needed] Never
mind if it harbours international Islamic terrorism. Regardless, nuclear fission
technology would suffice to finally unite merge melt the silly, no
kidding 17 mayors (or so, at last count), each running their shabby part of
our poubelle capital, into a state of.. peaceful quiet. See even nuclear
holocaust wouldn't be as depressing as it seems! 😌 Glass half full till the end.
Tired.. Too short the nights' rest, lately. Must be because of the supermoon.. I for one will probably miss the nuclear flash when it'd ever come, but just might happen to have found a state of peaceful quiet meself already. 🥁
🌍 ⤑ opining on unread books
Sometimes – that is, on too regular a basis – I buy a book on an impulse, eager to read it right away, and genuinely convinced that, merely by purchasing it, that's what will happen when my future self receives it or picks it up. Be reading it right away, as soon as I have it!
Which happens, but especially in recent years more often than not does not, so many a book in yonder shelf ended up there remaining entirely unread. :l Several of them presumably forever. :( I can't be alone in this behaviour..
At least recently, thanks to the help of more energetically inclined loved ones and relatives, I devised a shelf system promoti.. ehh, no matter – one such book that crosses my mind more often than others lately — leaving this tiny trace of guilt, an echoed whisper of “damn yes, with that one I really ought to have gotten started a miserable decent while ago” — is The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann.
The book's about pushing earth's limits, or abiding by them, is the gist I took away from cover and reviews - in anticipation of reading. In which case I think time proved the prophet right, and the road to hell was paved, in part, with good intentions. Is there any precedent of revoking Nobel Prizes? :l In a most honourable manner, to be sure. Just, like, reassess the candidates with 20/20 hindsight.
Why yet another blogpost utterly TBC, it appears to become a habit. No regrets! :|