I'm not sure how many people out there believe in Global Warming. Nor do I know how many believe in the Easter Bunny, Evolution, Fig Newtons, or that Hillary Clinton has ever done a good deed in her life.

However, there are enough that it has reached a 'stupidity saturation' point, and i'm tired of it.

Possibly due to Al Gore's fat-ass getting some sort of prize for perpetuating a myth.

I do admit that I haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth. Just like I admit I haven't seen any Michael Moore movie since Roger & Me. I simply can't stand the half-truths and badgering of people to make a one-sided point. More to the point I think Moore is a profiteering asshole who deserves to rot in the Canadian healthcare system, but that's not for me to decide.

The point is, I don't believe in 'Global Warming' the way people keep advertising it.

A definition from my point of view. "Global Warming" means that humans keep doing something to the air to increase the 'global' mean temperature to levels higher than would normally occur in nature.

I really don't see that happening. Like at all.

Of course it doesn't help that there doesn't seem to be any really serious work being done on studying it. Last I heard all the computer models the environmentalists have can't even calculate what's been happening over the last 20 years. It's been my experience that computer models, in order to be accurate, need to accurately model real data.

They don't.

Also, there are some scientists who believe that there's another ice age coming, carbon dioxide or not.

Hm, that's a bit confusing, isn't it?

Granted, I recently switched to having all Compact-Fluorescent bulbs in my house, but that wasn't for conservation, that was so my electrical bill would be lower.

I drive a car that uses premium gas and gets 22MPG.

I grill steak. (Sorry, that's a jab at those animal-loving freaks over at PETA, you know the ones who euthanize a lot of animals?)

Seriously, i'm tired of environmentalists. If they like the environment enough, they should live in it. Get out of their houses, go live in a tree. (Oh wait, they've tried that, but they usually get evicted)

Honestly I don't know what to think about all of the fanatical people in the world today, but I do blame technology on creating those people.

Back in the days when everyone had to run a farm, or actually work for a living, you couldn't get these green-freaks who could somehow afford to sit around all day and live without really working. The intellectuals who have never seen a cow in person. I have. They're big.

I think the biggest problem we have with most of these fanatical types is that nobody is willing to make up real data. Those who actually do research (that isn't tainted), are usually shot down by those more vocal freaks who believe that they are correct and can't consider life any other way.

I think we should find all the environmentalists and cut down a tree in their yard, then put it in their bed before they go to sleep. Maybe that'll send a message.

As if I could have ever forced myself to vote against McCain before, after watching this brilliant piece of Obama support propaganda, not only will I NOT vote Obama Way, I will also drive a railroad spike into my brain to get rid of the horrifying memory of the worst rap song in the history of rap music (and that's saying something when you consider the career of Master P). I don't know about you, but when I think of hood, I think of multi-racial multi-millionaire senators who spent their entire lives in the finest private schools his racist white grandmother's money can buy.

Seriously, I'm more hood than Obama has ever been. At least I grew up around black people in a working-class city neighborhood. The only hardship Barack has ever endured (aside from his 'mentor' being a crazy, white-hating, racist, wife-stealing fuckweasel) is being mistaken for a Polynesian. The fact that people don't see through his bullshit act is staggering.

I suppose the fact that he's semi-black makes it okay for him to be racist and associate with living excrement. You'd think that people would want their future Presidential candidate to, I don't know, have good sense enough not to associate with the openly racist for over 20 years, but I guess that's asking too much.

It seems the 2008 Presidential race is winding down. Well, winding down in the way that it hasn't even started yet.

The Dems are still trying to figure out which candidate best represents them to take over the Presidency, the Republicans are still sitting on their asses, laughing at the Dems. So, all in all, I suppose its business as usual, however..

The democrats are making a tough choice. On one side you have a black man (whoever says that 'race' isn't part of this...race.. is really stupid) with little political experience, comparatively, to any other candidate. And on the other you have Hillary Clinton.

I would say a white woman, but I tend to think she's actually a demonspawn who is only projecting the shape of a woman.

Then on the other side of life, you have McCain, who is pretty much older than the Great Wall of China, and has been as successful with women as Charlton Heston.

Honestly, who would pick any of these three in a fight? I would imagine Hillary would win, simply because she could use her demonic powers (and lying, sack of shit husband) to overwhelm the other two, but what would that leave us with? A lying, vindictive feminist who simply wants the ultimate power trip. I can't imagine any of the world would take us seriously with her at the helm. Hell, i'm sure she would break down crying just to get sympathy from some country we were bargaining with.

Obama? Wow, with racial tensions the way they are in most of the world, i'm sure he'd be welcomed to a foreign country without being shot at by someone.

McCain...well. I guess he could slip by with most people. At least they'd be willing to stare at his younger wife long enough to get through whatever speech he would fall asleep through while presenting it.

Honestly? Lets all do a write-in for Satan. Seriously the guy must be doing something right. He's ruled over hell for quite some time and we never hear about budget deficits down there. Heck, he might even be able to pipe up some of the flaming oils down there for us to run our cars on..

Well, mostly not dead, anyway.

It's not that there hasn't been plenty to be angry about, it's more to the point of there's been so much, where can we start?

Apple continues to grow in stature, and more and more are 'Drinking the Kool-Aid'. Disclaimer: I, too, sip on the Kool-Aid, I recently purchased an iPod Touch, have a Mac Mini and MacBook on my desk, and my wife has a Nano. That doesn't mean I totally LIKE them though.

The political situation in the US is completely laughable. Look at the latest presidential race. We have Obama, Hillary, McCain, Huckabee, and now, Nader. Honestly, people. What the hell. On a positive note, i'm pretty sure that Obama is NOT Jesse Jackson in disguise. However Hillary's role of retarded wench is being well played by herself.

The U.S. economy continues to tank. Are we finally realizing that we've over-extended ourselves and our guise of 'innovating' has come to an end? Personally I think this is best symbolized by our current attempted push for Digital and HD. I'm sure that of the households that have HD capable televisions, less than half actually receive Hi-Def signals. (I count as one, too much BS to get Dish upgraded, and they don't have channels i'd watch in HD anyway)

Car manufacturers continue to get everything wrong. H3. I rest my case.

Honestly I know that our 0 readers are probably down in the negatives. How that's possible, i'm not sure, but perhaps it's time to get some of the anger out. Unfortunately i'm not very political, and my views probably mean dick, but hell, what's another blog on the internet if not a stop in boredom?

Ah yes, the internet, billions and billions of bits and bytes. Most of them rehashes of someone else's bits and bytes. All of which come down to one basic premise, coined by Mr. 'Weird Al' Yankovic himself:

"Everything you know is wrong!"

It's possibly (maybe, most likely) obvious that i'm not a huge fan of Apple. Sure, I respect that they made a great comeback (wow, Steve Jobs saving the company, who saw that coming..), and they do make some decent products..

..but..

Why is it that the 'Apple following' seems to be more of a Fraternity of fanboys than a gathering of intelligent people?

Or maybe i'm just on the wrong side, being a 'Bill Gates' follower.

This just got me steamed: World exclusive!!! Bob Keefe is not Fake Steve Jobs. But he is the “Intel Sticker Guy.”

You may look at that and say "Huh?". Trust me, I did. Of course you may also look at it and wonder why you're reading this blog, but I won't fault you for that.

The jist is this. This past Tuesday there was a 'Mac Event'. At this 'Event' Mr. Steve Jobs himself unveiled some more new Apple stuff. Most notably the newest rehash of the iMac. I'll try to save my excitement. But anyway, apparently there was a period at this event where some reporters were allowed to ask Mr. Jobs 'any question ever'. So, what did one reporter ask?

Why doesn't Apple put Intel stickers on Macs.

I, personally, think this is a decent question.

I already know the answer though. Because it would 'ruin the aesthetic pleasures of the Mac experience'. Because remember, you don't own a Macintosh. No, you have an experience with it.

So anyway, Dan Moren of Macuser.com wrote this article basically ridiculing the guy that asked the question. Apparently a lot of other people ridiculed him as well. I think that's bad form, even though the answer to the question should've been obvious anyway. No normal person would ask something like that, either because they don't care, or they know that Apple is way too stuck up to identify ANY of the parts that go in its system as anything special.

I'm beginning to think that Steve Jobs is an illusionist.. or a robot. Either way, he's trying to slowly take over the world by dumbing people down. Why do I say this? Because he makes products that works HIS way, and if you don't like it...too bad..

In reference to my last post, the following update showed up on BoingBoing.

"Dave says, "AT&T just called and agreed to waive all charges due to the 'miscommunication.' I think they have a customer for life now.""

AT&T folded to another idiot customer. While i'm not a particular fan of the 'Death Star' myself, I believe this was the height of consumer ineptitude combined with how the media machine works.

That's right, let the idiot consumer be right, no matter how many times we spell it out.

Idiots abound!

Obviously BoingBoing works, as I managed to run into this lovely bit of entitlement propaganda:

ATT + iPhone int'l. roaming data horror story: $3K bill

Firstly, I had to laugh because I saw this coming.

Secondly, I have to laugh, because it's an article about a disillusioned iPhone user.

The basic outline of the thing is this, the guy bought an iPhone to use "in lieu of a cumbersome laptop while traveling in Ireland and England for two weeks". He activates the international roaming plan on the way to the airport, which, as he states, is the only one offered to him. He is then quoted $.005 per KB, but the agent "did not disclose what that would translate to in layman's language (i.e., X amount per e-mail, X amount per web page, etc.)."

Idiot check, number one.

He then reveals what we already know, the iPhone can't be unlocked to work with other SIM cards. A trick many GSM phone users use. They would unlock their phones, then get a local SIM card and use the lower rates of local cards.

Continuing, he then checks his account on AT&T's website and sees that the "usage data is currently unavailable".

Ignorance check, number one.

I say ignorance check because I honestly can't blame the guy (Dave) for this one. Because i've traveled internationally, I know that usage data while roaming isn't available immediately. It typically takes a day to a week (or more) for your international roaming to get back to your home carrier. Mostly because the local carrier has to tally it up, then go through whatever procedure exists to throw it back at your carrier, who may have to take some time translating it. Basically, you won't know exactly what you did till much later.

I say ignorance check, though, because (I would hope) the iPhone has a usage screen. Every phone i've had has had one. A little screen, sometime buried in the menus, that tells you how much you've used, minutes or data, since the last time you reset the counter. If the guy was really concerned, he should've set that counter as soon as he landed and kept tabs on it. A little math and hey, he could've known his potential bill at any time!

But no.

That, and idiot check, number two: The guy claims to be a web developer, yet "I couldn't even tell you how many KB the average web page is, no less a text message to my son, an e-mail with a photo to my mother, or a quick check of Google Maps."

If you don't know, hm... Maybe use your skills and figure it out? Or hell, use standard Google, and try to learn something!

So, at the end of the trip, he finds himself with a $3,000 bill. When he complains to AT&T, they offer him $400 in credit if he signs up for a $300 per year international plan with a max of 20MB per month.

Bwahaha.

And of course, if he doesn't pay the bill by the 14th of August, they kill his account. Which, of course, includes his whole family, and his wife's business line. I think he threw that in there for the sympathy vote, myself.

He continues on to say that he found out AT&T offers a $70 unlimited data roaming plan for Blackberries. And, oh yes, he wants that plan to apply to him.

Hm.

He then says "I'm writing you in the hope that the exposure of my story might force AT&T's hand in admitting they have an inadequate solution in place for international iPhone users"

No they don't. They have a perfect solution for making money off all of you Apple fanatics.

"that they've discriminated against the iPhone in favor of the Blackberry,"

Uh, no. They're staying competitive with the Blackberry plan, as it is one of (if not, the) most popular business phones in the world. Since almost every provider has a Blackberry plan, they want to entice people to theirs. With the iPhone, well, it's an exclusive AT&T thing. They don't have to offer anything. They know they have you locked down.

"that they failed to adequately disclose the exorbitant nature of their rate plan,"

Er. No. They told you it was $0.005 per KB. Because YOU can't figure out math is not their problem.

"that they kept me in the dark about my usage specifics until it was too late to modify them,"

Again, you should've learned how to keep track of your own usage. That, and it's not necessarily their fault (see earlier).

"and that by disallowing unlocking to use a European provider's SIM with more reasonable rates,"

Ex-clus-ive. They made a deal with Apple. Technically, this is much more Apple's issue than AT&T.

"I was trapped without knowing it until that $3000 "gotcha" came knocking at my door."

There was no trap. You were given the warnings. Your own idiocy and ignorance had that "gotcha" at your doorstep.

All in all, i'm not impressed. Of course there's going to be a legion of fanboys out there who will take up Dave's call to arms. But, I doubt it'll do much in the end.

And, looking at some other comments on the issue, I had to laugh at this as well.

Referenced from this LiveJournal Entry:

"That rate per KB is outrageous and is probably only there to fleece unsuspecting customers."

HAHAHA. No. That rate is actually LESS than what I have to pay with T-mobile. If I take my BB out on the road, my data rate is $0.01 per KB in Canada, and $0.015 per KB in all other countries. Meaning I would've paid a whole extra 1 cent per KB roaming.

I don't dare try to figure out this guys roaming habits, judging by other things he's said, i'm guessing his family's phones were on there, and I have no idea how much voice this guy used, but lets assume $2,000 of that bill was data, that means:

$2,000 . $0.005 = 400,000 KB

400,000 KB = 390.63 MB

For "Two weeks of travel with sporadic AT&T EDGE network usage", that's some sporadic usage there, Dave. Keep in mind, that's ONLY for if we assume that $2,000 of that was for data. It could've been a lot more.

Thank you for this amusement Dave. You teach me that Apple fanboyism and disillusionment is still ripe and active in this country. And, give me yet another reason not to spend my well-earned money on a money trap like the iPhone.

Wasn't it last year that Time called the 'Person of the year', well.. you? All the users of the internet, every one of them. Including you! And me! And Larry down the street!

Aww...that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

No..wait, it doesn't. It makes me fear for my sanity, my life, and everything else that's good.

The internet is filled with idiots. Plain and simple. I will go so far as to say, though, that you, the person reading this, are not. Of course, unless you prove yourself to be. I'm not saying i'm not an idiot...

Well...yes I am. I'm not an idiot. That doesn't mean I can't be wrong from time to time though. However, there are people that are wrong ALL the time. Or people who are so self-centered that they don't even know what an argument is, let alone how to argue one. Take internet forums for example. There was a picture that I saw once, which had a picture of a kid in the Special Olympics. It stated,

"Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics, Even if you win, you're still retarded."

I'll agree with that statement. Not just because i've lost some arguments, but because i've won some. Why am I still retarded? Because I got in the argument in the first damn place.

Now granted, i'd say at least half of the arguments on the internet are based on which is better, Mac, PC, or Linux. Obviously there's no winner there, though Mac fanboys would gladly blow Steve Jobs, and Linux people's idea of a fun time is recompiling their OS, but..there's no obvious winner.

Then, there are the times when someone puts up a post with a semi-valid point. That's when all the fanboys of the particular service or whatever the poster is bitching about come out of the woodwork. I, recently, have tried to back-up these original posts. Mainly because most people on the internet lack logic. For example, this person had a problem where their internet provider cut service because their credit card expired, even though it didn't. They have one of those Visa cards where the expiration actually has a date. Like, 7/31/06. By that example, the card expires either on the 31st, or the 1st of August. (I'm not actually sure), but the point is, it doesn't expire on 7/2/06.

So what happens? Everyone flames the person for letting their card expire. The problem is, it doesn't. When I point this out, I then get attacked as being the original poster, and once again get told that "They should know their card expired lolz".

Unfortunately, I am human. And thus, I do irrational things, like reply.

Similarly, there was an article about the proposed XM / Sirius satellite radio merger. There were two posts attached to the article, both attacking Satellite radio.

Both by people who obviously know nothing about it.

Who's the retard again? Me. Why? Because i'm defending the services. I love Satellite radio. It was a Godsend in the world of crappy commercial FM stations. I'm listening to it right now. It makes me happy when times are sad.

Nevertheless, I am probably defending XM and Sirius to an audience that either doesn't care, or doesn't understand. As is the way of the internet. How any intelligence can come from this swirling pile of crap, i'll never know.

Granted, there are some blips of intelligence out there, like Tycho and Gabe of Penny Arcade. These gentlemen have gone so far as to start their own convention, and a donation fund for Children's hospitals. They combine gaming with sharp wit and intelligence.

Something not easy to do.

Unfortunately, I will sill post in forums. I will still subject myself to the anger and frustration of my argument being met by "lolz l00ser" and other trite internet sayings.

I now wish I had paid attention back in school when my teachers were trying to teach me cursive handwriting. I would feel so much more accomplished in a society that is accepting 'Txtspeek'.

I fear for the world, people. That there is such a diverse amount of what we consider 'intelligence' and 'wisdom', and yet so few people who are not chastised for showing such qualities. And yet, we reward ignorance and stupidity.

One Nation, under Paris Hilton, for trash talk and gossip for all...

Sure, subway's food sucks donkey cock, but if they got this guy to tell me to buy a sub I know that I would.

Buy a 6 inch sub, shoot a robber, get a free meal upgrade!

Thankfully because this occured in regular america, ie not the liberal east or west coast, the hero of this story will not be charged with a crime. One robber dead, another in jail, and all thanks to a 71 year old former marine who friends call "quiet Clint Eastwood-type you don't want to mess with."

I want to shake his hand.

I have to give my greatest adoration to Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' program. She nearly had a meltdown on air yesterday morning when they wanted to lead the 'news' segment of the program with Paris' release. Her co-hosts, of course, wanted to hear about it.

She tried to burn the first copy, but instead crumpled it up, then actually walked the second copy over to the shredder, on air, and shredded it.

Here it is for you to watch.

Mika, I salute your integrity!

Ya know, Everyone has hopes for the future. They want a family and kids, they want a house with a lawn, they want to be rich, they want to be powerful, they want a new car.

Not me. I want a war. A big fucking war. A war that the survivors can look back on and say, holy fucking shit! Nukes, bio weapons, chemicals, the whole fucking thing. I want to see society eroded, crumbled and crushed by the weight of war. I want humanity to be reduced to naught save a shell of itself. I want 5 billion people to die in the war. I want the world to suffer nuclear winter, I want society to collapse.

I want a post apocalypse future. Not the kind you see in movies, where there are people living in space over a radioactive earth, no. I want the kind you read about in books from the 70's and 80's. The kind where mankind bombs himself back to the dark ages. I want tribal fuedalism, I want resource shortages, I want cars to cease to be a means of transport.

I want to make it through that, and be one of the sons of bitches that people see and fear. I want to be the guy sitting on a horse with an AK on my back, a sword on my side, roaming the destroyed world. I want to life to have no meaning, no real fucking purpose.

A friend of mine calls it the zombie apocalypse. I don't because I think that zombies fucking suck.

I want the people who call actions taken by soldiers today barbaric to be shown what true barbarism is. I want people to understand that all that stands between us and that world is a razor thin veneer of civility.

And I want that veneer to fucking collapse. I want to be able to stare out at the crushed and crumbled civilization we once had, and smirk. I want to be one of those who gets to finally say I told you so.

Because unless something like that happens, then the whole world is going to be very fucking boring for the next hundred and fifty years or so.

Gee, you remember the days when you were a kid and everyone would talk about the Olympics? Summer, winter, either one. For a week you'd watch people in speedos race around a circle on ice-skates faster than some people drive. You'd watch people jump over poles only to fail miserably. All kinds of spectacular athletic activities.

Remember when people cared about the olympics?

I know there's still a good number of people who do, but i'm pretty sure the 'viewership' of the olympics has dropped to next to nil recently. And the people who designed the logo for the 2012 olympics in London have set out to make sure that anyone that thinks about the olympics will simply vomit instead.

What am I talking about?

This.



If you want to read the article and see just HOW disconnected those running this farce are with reality, here it is.

If you want a simple taste of the logic used here, here it is: "It's vital that we reach out to those young people in a language that they understand and in technology that's familiar to them," London organizing chief Sebastian Coe said. "This brand is absolutely the world they live in."

You know which world these people think the young people live in?



Welcome to the 80's my friend...welcome to the 80's.

Amanda Gonzales is giving birth at age 20 to a set of twin girls. Or, another set of twin girls. You see, she already has one set of twin girls (2). And one set of twin boys (3). And another random girl (4). That's not Irish twins, that's Irish quintuplets.

That's right, kids, our 20-year-old 'hero' of the story is plopping out kids number 6 and 7, if they're not already out by now. But don't worry about mom and the kids, they're just fine and living off of the government, which should surprise, oh, no one in particular. I mean, why get a job when you can just keep breeding and watch your share of the government cheese shipment increase exponentially just by laying on your back?

It's one thing to have a big family if you can take care of what you have. You know, if you want 9 kids and you work and are a decent mother, I won't say a thing to you. More power to you, in fact. But when neither Mommy nor the Daddy of the latest set of kids has a goddamn job, then someone needs to hot glue Mommy's vagina shut until she learns to stop spending other peoples' money and start making her own.

Just don't let her become a prostitute, because she's obviously way too fertile for that industry.

I'll step right out there and say it.

Global warming.

There, got your attention now? Since this is one of those 'hot-button' or, 'global' or whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-call-it issues, i'll start with the quote of the evening.

“The devastation with sea level rise of several meters, with hundreds of millions of refugees, would dwarf that of New Orleans,” Hansen wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press, referring to Hurricane Katrina. “Is it arrogant to say that such would be a problem?”

I'll let you analyze that for a minute, but with this question. Who does this affect?

Taken from an article on MSNBC.com about NASA's chief saying he's 'not sure warming is a problem'

Let me help clarify this, in my own terms, in my own opinion.

We, as humans, are incapable of destroying the earth. We must be pretty damn arrogant to think we can do so

Now granted, if we came up with a large enough nuclear weapon (fusion, perhaps) and somehow got it to the center of the planet, which then caused the thing to break in two, then okay, we could destroy the earth.

Otherwise? Lets think about this, shall we.

Firstly, I believe in creation. God created the Universe, the World, and Me. I realize that some of you reading this may instantly think that i'm crazy, stupid, or otherwise incompetent, but bear with me.

The 'majority' believes in 'evolution' (the theory of,). This theory goes hand-in-hand with the idea of the 'Big Bang'. The universe started from nothing (or a big glob of something), and decided to explode into the universe. (Ask me about my soda can theory someday). These theories also said that life came from the impossible, and over millions of years, we have created American Idol. The universe weeps.

Now, if you remember your high school science classes, the Earth was quite inhospitable when it started. Lava everywhere, intense heat, acidic water, no oxygen, etc, etc. Then came along 'organisms', and over time they turned Carbon Dioxide (which, by the way, is one of the focuses of the Global Warming fanatics) into the corrosive Oxygen. Yeah, by the way, the stuff we breath to live? Extremely poisonous. Just ask a SCUBA diver if he breathes air or oxygen and ask why.

So, anyway, life found a way, as was said several times in 'Jurassic Park'. Your science teachers said "Survival of the fittest!" and many species were wiped out, only to be replaced by others, stuff grew fur, stuff grew wings, yadda yadda.

Obviously, during these times, the earth changed. Ice ages, warm periods, brim and hellfire, what-have-you.

So.. over all this glorious past, with all these wonderful evolutionary steps, why is it that humans have suddenly created this massive industrial revolution, within the last hundred or so years, and now we're 'killing the planet'?

I think that's pretty..fucking..arrogant.

The world is going to change, people. It will get warmer, it will get colder. Ice will melt, Ice will form. Superstorms will occur. The magnetic field will shift.

Humans, inevitably, will die.

That's the focus here. Screw the whole 'environmentalist' movement. They're all idiots. Granted they are trying to be slightly selfless, but in the grand scheme of things, a fly farting could do more to the environment than them.

'Global Warming' is a waste of time and money. Now, granted, I do agree that finding better ways to manage our natural resources ARE needed. There's a difference between strip-mining and cultivating. We have a limited number of resources here, and we're blasting through them pretty quick. THAT should be the issue at hand. Not this warming stuff.

Maybe we do need to cut down on what people can do. Less babies. Less waste. More efficiency.

But then what do I know. I'm a single child. I don't have brothers and sisters all over the place. Much less brothers and sisters sucking the life out of welfare. But that's a different story.

I'm not looking for fame here. I'm not looking for recognition or anything like that. I'm looking for people who can freaking think. Look at who is saying what. Global warming and evolution don't go hand-in-hand. Yet the people talking the loudest are the ones with the largest flaws in logic.

While, yes, I do believe that I was created, I came to that conclusion myself. Not because the Bible tells me to (at first, anyway), but because looking logically at what is 'accepted' as 'evolution', it just doesn't make sense.

Think about this: In Biology class, most people bred fruit flies. Thousands upon thousands upon millions of generations of fruit flies, and how many 'good' mutations were there? According to 'Evolution', there should've been quite a few new species coming out of those flies.

How many were there? None. Not a single useful mutation, barely a mutation that allowed survival. Remember the whole thing about inbreeding? Genetic defects, malformed children, etc. Yeah, evolution works.

Point being. Humans are fucking arrogant. We can't 'save the planet'. The planet is fine. The planet would be happy to melt the ice caps and flood us out of existence. We're a scar on the globe. Just because things are going badly for us doesn't mean the rest of the planet isn't going fine as usual.

Eesh.

I went to the movies tonight with my father, and I was in for a sobering, slightly depressing experience. I went to check out “28 Weeks Later,” but not only did my $20 buy me a couple of tickets to a good movie, it also gave me a brief lesson on the slow decay of society.

In the old mining days, to detect radon or gas leaks, they used to keep a canary in a cage. So long as the canary was alive and kicking, you could keep working. However, when the canary died (because as a tiny animal they are sensitive to amounts of poison that would not affect a human), you knew it was time to get the hell out of the mine. Places where large numbers of people gather, like parks and movie theaters, serve as a sort of canary for the detection of societal infection.

Meaning, it's one of the first places to show signs of trouble when a neighborhood, to put it bluntly, is starting to go to the dogs. Unfortunately, my end of town is starting to go to the dogs, and in a way that can no longer be ignored. Time to cross another movie theater off my acceptable list.

What was so bad about it? Well, for one thing, it was filthy (even by movie theater standards). There were more cops and security guards than theater employees. The door to our theater was broken, so throughout the entire show we could hear people out in the hallways yelling and being idiotic. The speakers in the front were cutting in and out or rattling, and the lobby was devoid of decoration. None of those giant advertising stand-ups, no posters, nothing but bare floors and trash everywhere.

When we got into the movie, people talked all the way through it, used their cell phones, sent text messages back and forth, and were generally obnoxious to an extreme degree. People with no regard for the enjoyment of others are generally the type of people who’d leave a movie theater a mess and trash the lobby anyway, and it’s only a matter of time before the infection spreads to the surrounding shopping mall, businesses, and neighborhoods.

And what, pray tell, is spreading this infection? Flight from the ghettos, of course. There’s a reason the worst part of town is the ghetto, after all. You can take the person out of the environment, you can’t take the ghetto out of the person. Wherever the project denizens go, they bring the projects or the trailer with them in ways both subtle and obvious. Cars and houses are being broken in to. There are domestic disturbances. Drug dealers have taken up residence in quiet suburbs. Everything is slowly going to shit.

It doesn’t matter if these are inner-city blacks, illegal immigrants, or poor white trash spending their meth lab money; what matters is they’re fucking it up for hard working, working class people of all races who just want to watch a goddamn movie in peace. People who want to go to the mall and not worry about their car being broken in to. People who want to be able to go to work and come home unmolested.

I can understand wanting to better your situation, but for the sake of those that have to live around you, act like you’ve got some goddamn sense and stop fucking things up for the rest of us.