Author: Mark Alexander

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Quote of the Day

Donald Trump is not simply stupid. His idiocy is a complex system of ignorance, narcissism, and xenophobia wrapped in a web of insecurity and covered by a thick layer of self-loathing, afloat in a spiraling ever-widening miasma of dementia.” ~ Middle Age Riot on Twitter

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The United States is a Lot Like Apple

Some commute thoughts from yesterday afternoon:

The United States is a lot like Apple. Once it had a really good product that everyone wanted. It was high quality, intelligent, well-thought out, and built well. Around the world everyone wanted to be like the United States. Like Apple, the US had a rough patch. (The US had the Civil War; Apple the John Scully years.) Both made their way through and came out the other side better than they were before. They both went on to become the beacons of excellence that everyone aspired to.

And then something happened. Suddenly both the United States and Apple decided they were the only ones who knew how things should be done and felt that because of their market share they could dictate the direction the rest of the world had to follow. It was hubris, pure and simple. We’re The United States! We’re Apple! If you don’t like it, you don’t have to follow but get the hell out of our way if you don’t.

In a sane world, people would abandon these two entities completely, but billions were still addicted to the idea of both Apple and the United States—if not their current state—so with a only a few exceptions, the world still followed along—in some cases making the same foolish mistakes the US and Apple did in their “product lines” did because the neither couldn’t be wrong…right?

I’m not directly comparing Tim Cook and the Orange Shitstain in the White House, by any means but I can see the correlation between bad decisions and the unrest we’re seeing internationally. When Apple stopped including built-in floppy drives, it was fine. We knew it was outdated technology and needed to go. But then it arbitrarily got rid of industry-standard ports, forcing us into dongle hell. It stripped out the beloved Magsafe connector, and started soldering SSD and RAM onto the motherboards.

And then along came the butterfly keyboard.

While I can’t draw specific parallels between any of these Apple blunders with things the United States has done over the last 70 or so years, you get where I’m heading with this. The good ol’ “too big to fail” scenario.

Faced with the reality of what was happening to their reputation (not to mention their bottom line), Apple finally opened its eyes to what was happening and has made efforts to correct course. The question is, will the United States have its own 16-inch MacBook Pro/Mac Pro mea culpa moment or will it continue to stubbornly produce its own butterfly keyboard until it goes out of business or is crushed by a competitor?

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The Problems of Fandom

The trouble with having a rather prominent Doctor Who tattoo is that strangers you encounter expect you to have an encyclopedic knowledge of every episode for the last 50 years. Hell, I don’t even have an encyclopedic knowledge of the last 5 episodes!

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Apparently…

…Ben and I are not the only ones who—despite the blatant racism, misogyny, and homophobia present in Supernatural (at least the early seasons; we still haven’t gotten that far into it), there is a not so subtle homoeroticism as well.

I suppose that unsurprisingly goes along with the frat mentality of their target audience. “It’s not gay if our dicks don’t touch!”

Out of curiosity, the other night I googled Supernatural slash, and imagine my surprise. There’s even a term for it: Wincest.

As George Takei would say… “Oh my!”

Now if they’d only get past their daddy issues and fuck for Chrissake!

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These Two…?

I stumbled across “The Morgan Brothers” on my Instagram some time ago and as much as I’ve wanted to, I’ve been resisting the urge to check out their Only Fans because…well…their Insta was giving off a certain…vibe…that promised more than what that platform would allow, and if we’re gonna be honest here, what (non-twin, at least) gay man does not fantasize about a bit of twincest now and then? (Yes, I am the KING of run-on sentences.)

Well, imagine my disappointment when my curiosity finally got the better of me and I broke down and paid the admission fee. Not only was there no twincest going on behind that pay wall, but there were precious few fully exposed and erect penises—and then only rarely with both of them in the same shot. Plenty of movies of them showering (individually, but never together), no jerk-off movies (even solo), no cum-spurting pix, and most of the time even the dick pix had their fists covering the tips.

I mean seriously, guys. WTF? If I slap down money for your Only Fans, I want to see smut, not more pix of each of you individually preening in front of a mirror.

Needless to say I canceled the subscription immediately.

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In Light of Yesterday’s Events…

It is my opinion (like it matters) that the smartest thing the Iranians could do is…nothing. Yes, nothing. They—and the rest of the world—know they’re dealing with a mentally-incompetent, narcissistic madman who cares about no one and nothing beyond himself (and between his daughter’s legs) and is desperate to turn attention away from his Impeachment by any means possible. The Iranians are the ones who must not escalate, because if they do, I fear the entire Middle East—and the rest of the planet—will end up one big radioactive wasteland.

My biggest fear however, is that the Iranians will not be smart. I doubt there will be an immediate retaliation; we’ll hear nothing from them for months, thinking that all has been forgiven, and then WHAM! Another 9/11 and all bets are off. China and Russia get involved and then it’s game over. I just hope that I and my loved ones are at ground zero when the bombs start falling, because the last thing I want is for any of us to have to live through the post-apocalyptic nightmare that will follow.

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