Yearning For The Good Old Days

You Can No Longer Hire A Rhino to Decorate Your Home. So Long Friends.

"Africa’s Western black rhino has officially been declared extinct and other subspecies of rhinoceros could follow, according to the latest review by a leading conservation organization."  Western black rhino is declared extinct By Alexandra Zavis / Los Angeles Times
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."    Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Meditation 17 by John Donne

How Far Back Do They Want to Take Our Country Back?

Justice was swift when she was young.

 9-Nov 1928 Little Rock Police Chief Burl C. Rotenberry raided the American Association for Advancement of Atheism office at 710 Main Street and arrested Charles Lee Smith on charge of blasphemy.    
 
10-Nov 1928 Charles Lee Smith was convicted of blasphemy in Little Rock Municipal Court trial before Judge Harper Harb, fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
 
From Smith's Alternative Arkansas History.

Memory Verse.

I wish I'd known about this back when I was using John 11:35 every week.  "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."  Ezekiel 23:20  Thanks to Judge C.

Big Big Love.

". . .a lot of people  . . actually feel sexier and more self-confident when they are bigger . . . For some people, it’s as simple as the fact that when you’re fat, especially when you’re fat to a certain degree, you know from the get-go that you’re not going to fit into all of these idealized versions of what bodies are supposed to look like, and so you just stop letting that register on your radar. You can just concentrate on enjoying your body and enjoying your partner.

Another thing that comes up for a lot of people is that fat bodies are really sexy and sensual. There are a lot of textures and there’s a lot of skin and surface area, and a lot of sensory nerves. Everything that you’ve got on a thin body you’ve just got more of on a fat body."  The joy of fat sex By Tracy Clark-Flory  
I have to agree.  I like women who can put the hay in the barn.  Rubens trumps Twiggy every time.
Thanks to MacGraham

Running the Government Like a Business.

One way we could balance the budget is to eliminate costly elections and confirmation fights.  It would be frugal and efficient to delegate to the CEO's of the two largest corporations in each state, along with the head of the Chamber of Commerce the responsibility of choosing our leaders and judges.   They're making most of the decisions anyway.  Why not make it official and save some money?

There will be resistance to change.  Nattering nabobs of negativism such as the Arkansas Times will have to be dragged into the twenty first century. 
 “It could happen in Arkansas, the way it's happened elsewhere. Rove, the Republican Party strategist and lead handler of George Bush, helped business interests unseat a Democratic chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was believed soft on plaintiffs. He's done similar work in his home state of Texas.
Over the last decade, the Chamber of Commerce has poured millions of dollars into state Supreme Court races around the country, seeking — usually successfully — to get rid of justices who've displeased corporations by ruling against them in lawsuits.”  Reforming judicial elections in Arkansas Task force at work. by Doug Smith
Big deal!  If Doug Smith is so damned smart, why ain't he rich?

Thanks for the Memo.

A clean office is a happy office.  Gentle reminders such as the one below I obtained from a local office are sometimes necessary.

From: Managing Partner
To: All
Subject: Kitchen
Gentlemen:

Kindly refrain from placing your fucking peanut shells (or anything else that might put the garbage disposal out of commission - citrus rinds, apple cores, etc.) in the sink and use the trash can instead.  Not only does this behavior piss me off, it costs time and money. 

Please feel free to share this gentle message with the kitchen board that meets on Tuesday nights, if you feel they would benefit from it.

Your cooperation in this matter is genuinely appreciated.

Regards,
M.P.