I will bugger you and face-fuck you.
Cock-sucker Aurelius and catamite Furius,
You who think, because my verses
Are delicate, that I am a sissy.
For it’s right for the devoted poet to be chaste
Himself, but it’s not necessary for his verses to be so.
Verses which then have taste and charm,
If they are delicate and sexy,
And can incite an itch,
And I don’t mean in boys, but in those hairy old men
Who can’t get their flaccid dicks up.
You, because you have read of my thousand kisses,
You think I’m a sissy?
I will bugger you and face-fuck you.
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Words That We, As An Internet, Have Overused And Are No Longer Permitted To Use
- media
- brand
- trend (as a verb, incl. “trending”)
- invite (as a noun, thanks — “invitation” is permitted)
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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The days during which that 19-year-old has Rand’s worldview vectored into his cerebral cortex are feverish and sleepless. Days of beautiful affliction during which the intransigence of others—roommates, a coed the patient has been hitting on, professors, parents, everyone—are shown to be the product of their shortcomings, their idiocy and sublimated envy of the patient’s intelligence and talent.… It’s the damnedest thing. One day you’ve got a bright young kid dutifully connecting the dots of his liberal-arts education; the next, he’s got Roark and Galt in the marrow and has become…an insufferable asshole.
You, me, all of us, we’re living it. Because it’s the Ayn Rand Asshole Army of antigovernment-antiregulation puritans who have spent the past three decades gleefully pulling the cooling rods out of the American economy. For a while, it got very big and very hot. Then it popped. And now the rest of us have to spend the next decade scaling the slippery slopes of the huge suppurative crater that was left behind.
Also worth your time: Richard Metzger’s own tale of Randian orbit.
(Last Rand-bashing links for awhile! Pinky swear!)
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Kuniyoshi.
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What a friendly way to welcome me. :’(
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Smoking Bans
I think I made some people hate me today with my disdain for the passage of a public smoking ban in St. Louis Country, MO. I didn’t feel like Twitter was an appropriate place to discuss why I opposed the ban, so I’m going to dump a lot of my thoughts on the matter here.
I don’t disagree that smoking is harmful to your health. I don’t disagree that secondhand smoke is harmful to the health of those who are around smokers. This is proven fact. But for the most part (I’ll talk about the exceptions later), exposing yourself to these are a personal choice. In effect, I disagree with smoking bans for the same reason I disagree with forcing McDonald’s to put “WARNING! HOT!” stickers on its coffee. If you’re dumb enough to constantly expose yourself to a smoking environment, that’s your fault. You should know better.
However, the amount of people that smoke is large, which means that businesses have a financial incentive to support people who smoke. Many people who smoke enjoy the company of other smokers, leading them to places where they can smoke together. Bowling alleys, bars, and restaurants are just a handful of places where smokers are allowed to assemble and smoke together. Why should they not be allowed that right?
The counter-argument to that, of course, is that non-smokers are then unable to assemble in places that are free of secondhand smoke. But is legislation the right way to make more smoke-free places? Businesses are already free to set “no smoking” policies on their property, but many have chosen not to, because they don’t wish to alienate potential customers. If non-smokers want more smoke-free zones, they should reverse the incentive: boycott businesses that are too smoky, and (more importantly) make it known that that’s why you’re boycotting that business.
Plenty of businesses have already made the decision to go smoke-free without a ban. For example, smoking is rarely allowed in movie theaters, a practice which was once common. Other businesses have limited the amount of crossover between smoking and non-smoking sections. A restaurant in my hometown of Union, MO has the two separated by most of the building. The entire kitchen is between the two sections. The only experience of smoky air by non-smokers is during payment, a process which takes less than a few minutes.
Obviously, there are always exceptions. I agree that smoking should be banned in places where people are likely to be more sensitive to smoke, such as hospitals and elementary schools. Likewise, I feel that it should be at least monitored by health agencies, making sure that appropriate ventilation is provided in buildings where smoking is allowed. But an outright ban is bad for local business, and a slap in the face to personal liberty.
Hopefully I’ve made my case a little clearer. Comments can be made either on Twitter (@Arclite) or by reblogging this post on Tumblr.
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cleversimon reblogged glueslabs:Here we go again.
Cleversimon is clever. Unfortunately, he cannot tolerate being challenged.
Give me a fucking break. I love being challenged, and corrected, and educated about things that actually matter. An e-heckler nitpicking an easy, lazy joke (you got me there) doesn’t warrant anything except an easier, lazier joke at his expense.
…your response is to call me out for being humorless? That’s not clever, man. It’s defensive and immature.
You’re fact-checking a joke about pubic lice, and I’m the jerk? You’re going for the personal attacks over a crack on the internet and I’m the one who’s getting defensive? I’ll cop to being unfunny, derivative, whatever you want, but Jesus fucking Christ, man, whoever shit in your cornflakes this morning, it wasn’t me.
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Anyway. A joke. Sort of.
So this idealist is talking to his relativist friend, and the idealist says
“I hope for the best of all possible worlds.”
And the relativist turns to him and replies
“Best compared to what?”
And then the idealist punches the relativist in the mouth for being a fence-sitting jerk.
