Adventures in LJ, Day 4

Have upgraded to Firefox 5 (which looks hideous; now I'm searching for a theme that will make it less slit-my-wrists-grey and move the tabs back below the command bar) and killed cache and cookies.

Now I can read LJ... but not comment from the desktop. This is being done via email post. However, I was able to put a comment on an old post via the ipad, so things are functional, if fugly.

Somewhat Bitchy Random Things I've Been Wanting to Say

Things I would have been saying on LJ all week if I could get to it:

1) Norway, I'm sorry for the likes of Glen Beck and Pat Robertson. They proved back in 2001 that they will say any hideous victim-blaming thing just to pound their vile point of view, not that it either excuses them or makes it easier for your nation to bear when they vomit forth their talking points again.

1a) I swear, people like Beck and O'Reilly and Robertson, for all their loud public piety, have got to have less faith than atheist me. Because if they really believed, really sincerely believed in the words of Jesus as printed in the Bibles they pound, they'd live in terror of his noticing what they do. Back when I was a believer, I often said that all I asked of God was to see some people's faces on Judgement Day.

1b) I am neither sympathetic towards the people who see "a cross" in that set of 90-degree ripped off struts from the World Trade Center nor the atheists opposing its display. It's not a cross, and it's certainly not an example of Divine Grace because an example of divine grace from that day would be 3,000 more people alive in NYC. It's the inevitable result of structural damage to a building constructed over a framework of steel girders bolted to each other at 90 degrees. A little more digging and a slightly different impact and you'd have a celtic cross or a Russian orthodox one instead of this vaguely Protestant "cross." People have fetishized (and reshaped, judging by the pictures) a random joint that didn't rip and other people are getting their knickers in a knot. It's as ridiculous as seeing Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich and equally ridiculous to have a hissy because the first set of people are projecting their images on a random piece of hardware.


2) Adulthood sucks. (I was going to say this on Tuesday.) There were a lot of chores I needed to do instead of reading holmesian_news. Oddly, even without the nl, I didn't get the chores done.

On the other hand,

3) Immaturity sucks worse. When the Tea Party threatened to shut down the Government earlier this year, everyone blamed the Democrats for not passing a budget bill earlier. (I have yet to see any kinds of statistics on how often budgets like that are passed "on time.") You'd think that this time it would be more obvious that the group to blame is the one that assumes that being elected to 1/2 of 1/3 of the Government is hardly a sweeping mandate, much less a reason to flush the concept of compromise down the drain. Here's a clue: Government is compromise. Real compromise, not "give me my way or I'll make the whole country suffer."

3a) Dear Congress: I have been in debt. How am I getting out? By reducing spending in many areas, yes. But you know how I'm getting out of it FAST? By bringing in more money. There have been times I've worked two (once even three) jobs. So if you really, really, really want to say that the Government has to act on its budget just the same as individual citizens do... TAKE THE HINT.

Now put on your big boy pants and do the damned job for which you were hired.


Y'know, I actually do feel better after unloading like that.