Who I am

It's becoming clearer to me, as I think about this, that what people object to with my outlook on things is the same thing they've always objected to. It's not what I think as much as who I am.

I'm a nice guy. People think that means soft. They want to be tough. Not as tough as the terrorists. Not as soft as me. Just right.

And when I hear that moronic bullshit, I want to be tougher than terrorists. I want to the son-of-a-bitch in your life that you are sorry that you have to deal with.

But I'm not a son-of-a-bitch, except when I need to be. I am, generally, a nice guy.

And I have nothing to apologize for in that.

People who reason like the above are not reasoning at all, really. They are rationalizing why they are such dicks. And the lesson I'm learned about people who rationalize, is that they will make up excuses for anything and everthing they do. They will always explain away their failures. They will always look to someone else to blame.

Because that what it means to be a dick.

We're all dicks, at some point in our lives.

I'm just listening to a lot of people make excuses, these days, for why I need to be a dick with them.

It's the worst kind of peer pressure.

Come to think of it, that's exactly what it's meant to be. Peer pressure. Though, this time, the assholes engaged in it are sure that it's for good purpose and not all of the bad purposes that they've used it for before.

Thank goodness, because this world would be a mess if we had a bunch of assholes running around applying peer pressure on one another, especially if they were all arguing that it was for the common good.

Thank goodness we don't have that mess on our hands.

Love,
Ben

This is what pressure really looks like

Robert Mugabe knows how to apply pressure.

Zimbabwe Paper Hits 'Big Nerve'

This is how you control something you don't like.

Americans are pussies.

Thank goodness for our ability to force people to do the right thing

Michigan court: No same-sex benefits

Force is an important element of preventing gay people from living in sin.

What would we do without it?

Charles Krauthammer is right

Who's to Blame for the Killing

What America is experiencing in terms of blame and blowback is the consequence of making the decision to go to war for Iraqis without consulting them. But Krauthammer is right. Americans are not slaughtering Shiites and Sunnis today. Shiites and Sunnis are.

Americans are the people who can never, ever get responsibility straight because the spend so much time shifting blame. That, as it turns out, is a universal problem.

And one that I'm quite confident will finally be resolved now that we've figured out that what was needed all along this whole time was the ability to force people to take responsibility.

Now that we have that cleared up, everything should run good as new.

Either that or it won't and none of us will take responsibilty for it and everything will be same old, same old.

That's what progress looks like.

Being an asshole

I've had it.

I have completely had it with every intimation and implication that my problem is that I'm not enough of an asshole.

A teacher and a priniciple argued as much today.

So I'm changing strategies.

I'm going to be an asshole.

To everyone.

If if they don't like it, they can fuckin' eat shit.

I'm tired of it.

So now I'm going to show them what an asshole I can be.

And see how they fuckin' like it.

Ben