This is Why You Need to Give a Fuck

Another Rodeo Shot

More FishEye

An Example

For KFace

And Another

Here's A Conspiracy Theory For You...

The Great Stonehenge Swindel:

"From 1901 to 1964, the majority of the stone circle was restored in a series of makeovers which have left it, in the words of one archaeologist, as 'a product of the 20th century heritage industry'. But the information is markedly absent from the guidebooks and info-phones used by tourists at the site. Coming in the wake of the news that the nearby Avebury stone circle was almost totally rebuilt in the 1920s, the revelation about Stonehenge has caused embarrassment among archaelogists. English Heritage, the guardian of the monument, is to rewrite the official guide, which dismisses the Henge's recent history in a few words. Dave Batchelor, English Heritage's senior archaeologist said he would personally rewrite the official guide. 'The detail was dropped in the Sixties', he admitted. 'But times have changed and we now believe this is an important piece of the Stonehenge story and must be told'."

Accept the veracity of this claim with a boulder of salt.

True Fact

My dad used to tell me the exact same thing.
God rest his soul...

Via El Borak

How to Lose a War

Or, the New Western doctrine of Unbelievable Restraint.

* Keep your forces static

* Burden them with insane Rules of Engagement wherein the soldiers can only respond once already under attack

* Keep your best weapons and tactics rusting on the shelf

* Ambiguous, "feel-good" equivocations about a campaign's objectives

Any of this sound familiar?
Kill ratios and force multipliers, while important tactical and strategic concerns to be considered, are not paramount. In fact, I'd rather see a 3:1 or 2:1 ratio with a mobile force heading toward a well-defined set of objectives than a force producing 15:1 to 30:1 kill ratios standing around waiting for the one lucky nuclear/chem/bio strike.

Tip of the Day

Remember to lube up your camshaft liberally to avoid binding at the journals.

A Conspiracy of Dunces

Cogitated some, and I've broken down - to an extent - the whole thing down there.
I blame the X Files.
With the explosion of the show's popularity came this overarching idea of shadowy puppetmasters guiding the hand of history in sinister and dastardly ways.
Trust No One!
They're Watching You!!
The FBI's Got FILES!!!
And so forth.
"But, they're acting above the law!"
Governments openly act above the law.
By definition, the arbiter of the law is always perched above it.
C'mon now people.
As for the interview, well, if forced to give a breakdown, I'd say 30% conjecture based on 10% hearsay, prodded along by 60% psychotropic lubrication.
I attempted to break it down, point by point, but found too much repetition and the usual lack of, you know, specifics.

Complete*

* But it should be noted that I hate, hate, hate Edelbrock equipment, especially their carbs. But I had it lying around, and figured what the fuck.

On the Dangers of Psycotropics

This and this are interesting.
I'm gonna sift 'em about me noggin for a while, cogitate some, drink a little more, and then post a thorough (though likely not coherent) response.

But a couple of quick hits.
Do I trust the government, any government, to have my best interests at heart?
Fuck no.
Governments excel at these three things in regards to its citizenry --
Killing them
Plundering their money
Making them wait in que

Yet, to that end, I am also not very much afraid of whatever covert acts a government chooses to pursue. Why?
In regards to the efficiency of how any government program would handle things, one need only look to the administration of your local DMV to assuage any fears of rampant and omnipotent conspiracy.
They hate you openly, and are only waiting for quittin' time.

More to come...

Eh

Fiddlin and fucken around with it, coming along, but eh.
Ideas welcome.

A Process of Order

I still don't know what I'm going to put here.
I would absolutely love to have a place to host my photography, but the blogspot hosting system doesn't allow such in any practical capacity.
I would also love to say that this particular blog will only deal with matters pertaining to A and to B, and sometimes C, but I know myself, and X,Y and Z won't be far behind.
Just like Rollin' Like Sisyphus.
I have toyed with making this a physics/astronomy blog, pondered making it a literature/fiction workspace, entertained the possibility of discussing solely, and in no particular order, barbecue techniques/recipes, automotive restoration, guns n butter, and the dangers (and delights) of run-on sentence structure.
Summation?
I don't have a fucken clue.
But it'll still blow your mind...