Escaped Thoughts

My lesson for the day: the time before you can actually go to sleep is substantially longer than the amount of time it takes to discover that you accidentally broke the build and back out the offending patch. I'm definitely not doing checkins less than two or three hours before I plan to go to bed in the future.

Category: Camino

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While the national races are looking pretty good, some of the state and local issues are looking not so pleasant. I'm really hoping that the precincts that have reported are not representative of the remainder of the state. Sure, I knew that several things I voted for wouldn't pass (because it would just be crazy to tax the multi-bazillion-dollar-earning oil companies for destroying the environment extracting oil) and that others were borderline (education? housing? the environment? who uses them?), but there are times I just foolishly like to think, if not the best, at least some decency of my fellow man. Overwhelming support for permanently tagging sex offenders with GPS devices? I'm not a big fan of sex offenders by any stretch of the imagination, but come on. Let's review that for a second: they will be tagged (you know, like cattle) for the rest of their lives. I'm sure that won't increase any sense of alienation that would hinder their ability to potentially become functional members of society again. Oh, and they get to pay for it too, as an added bonus. And then they can't live within some distance of schools and parks (because, you know, sex offenders have no means of transportation). The writers of this initiative did miss one obvious component: we want to keep them away from schools, and we don't care about removing any shred of dignity. Clearly the solution here is to surgically implant electric dog collars. Maybe next election.

I know I feel more secure the more Big Brother watches over me. I have nothing to fear if I haven't done anything wrong.

Freedom is slavery. War is peace.

Category: Society

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