Author: Mark Alexander

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Quote of the Day

Democrats want the government to provide health care to every American and make a public college education much more affordable.

Republicans want to control the private sexual lives of every American and treat women like walking incubators.

So don’t tell me ‘There’s no difference between the two parties.'” ~ Allen Clifton

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Writer’s Block

It never fails. I come up with the most amazing ideas for blog posts when I’m laying half-awake in bed at 4 am, but I never bother writing anything down at the time and after I fall back asleep and wake up later, with very few exceptions, I can never remember what those awesome ideas were.

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OH. MY. GOD.

I knew there had to be treasure vaults like this scattered across the globe, but never believed in a thousand years I’d actually see one. Too bad the stuff has all been sold. That guy is probably a very wealthy man now.

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One Of My All Time Favorites

While Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is my most beloved Elton John album ever and is amazing as a whole, Better Off Dead is without a doubt my favorite cut from the whole set.

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Impure Thoughts

Everyone remembers Tom Selleck’s 80s-era pornstache, but how many people know or remember that Jameson Parker also rocked one in Prince of Darkness? (Which in my opinion is one of the most under-appreciated films of the genre.) Unlike Selleck’s ‘stache (who I never really got off on) seeing Mr. Jameson’s even after all these years still makes me weak in the knees.

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Quote of the Day

‘The Obama administration is bypassing Congress by attempting to rewrite the law and set restroom policies for public and private employers across the country, not just North Carolina.’

That was North Carolina Governor, Pat McCrory.

You know, that’s a pretty bold statement coming from a guy with a gender-ambiguous name who himself signed into law regulations setting bathroom policies.

North Carolina was given until today to suspend enforcement of the gender/bathroom portions of HB2 or lose federal funding.

Washington indicated it would extend that deadline if McCrory would publicly agree HB2 is discriminatory.

Instead, McCrory chose to sue the federal government. That’s right, instead of doing the right thing, the inevitable thing, he’s chosen to waste taxpayer money at both the state and federal levels in order to fight for a law that is obviously unnecessary and based entirely on bigoted fear of a situation that is essentially nonexistent.

‘I’m not going to publicly announce that something discriminates, which is agreeing with their letter, because we’re really talking about a letter in which they’re trying to define gender identity,’ McCrory said. ‘And there is no clear identification or definition of gender identity. It’s the federal government being a bully.’

There is no clear indication of gender identity.

I wonder if this idiot can actually hear the words coming out of his mouth? Or if he’s just a puppet with Tony Perkins’ hand up his ass?

No clear indication of gender identity? Well gee, fellas, ISN’T THAT THE ENTIRE BASIS OF THE HB2 PROVISIONS REQUIRING PEOPLE TO ONLY USE SPECIFIC RESTROOMS MATCHING THEIR SEX AT BIRTH?

The fuck? Seriously.

‘This is now a national issue that applies to every state and it needs to be resolved at the federal level.’

You know what, Pat? You’re right. It IS a national issue. And thank you for making it so. It was a NON-issue, but you, you ignorant hateful bigoted jackasses, have now made it a national issue. Just like interracial and same-sex marriage—and how’d that work out for you religious nuts? Remind me.

This is why I laugh when I hear conservatives bleating about ‘state’s rights.’ If 200 plus years of American history have taught us anything at all, it’s that the states cannot be trusted with civil rights.

Ever.” ~ Jim Wright

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Quote of the Day

…the Supreme Court hangs in the balance; the relationship between the states and federal government hangs in the balance; and our relationship with our allies hangs in the balance. All of these things are at stake and the party that fancies itself as the grown up party has handed itself over to a huckster with a cult of ill behaved children.” ~ #NeverTrump leader Erick Erickson, writing for The Resurgent.

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First World Problems

Life was earlier before we were surrounded by all this tech.

“Goddamnit! GET OFF MY LAWN!”

(I’m practicing…)

Anyhow, after discussing it with Ben, we decided that even though we still had a little over a year left on our contract with Cox, it was worth the cancellation fee to tell them to take their shitty television and unneeded telephone service and shove it up their corporate rectum. To that end, we had a visit from DirecTV on Friday, and we’re now enjoying basically the same service for substantially less than what we were paying Cox. We’re keeping Cox for internet because the alternative (DSL through Century Link) was simply unacceptable as far as speed was concerned.

The worst part of switching providers is that once again I am at a total loss for what is on any given channel. It seems that just when I get used to knowing where to find any given program we change providers—not to mention learning an entirely new interface. Last night I pulled out an index card that I’m now keeping handy to write down our most watched channels so I can just enter them directly in the future instead of aimlessly scrolling up and down the on-screen guide. (Ben told me there was a way to select favorite channels and save them, but the index card is faster.)

We kept Cox for internet, but returned their cable modem after buying our own. This was yet another first-world annoyance, because I arrived home on Friday to discover that even though Ben’s laptop was connecting just fine to the outside world, mine absolutely refused to. It would connect to our router, but it wasn’t getting beyond that—even though Ben was connecting the exact same way. Finally, after messing around for more than an hour and going through several reboots of both the router, modem, and laptop, we just decided to simply reset the router to factory settings and set the whole network up again from scratch. That apparently cleared out whatever goop was preventing it from connecting, and once again we had connectivity to the outside world.

But what we then neglected to take into consideration were all the sundry internet connected devices around the house, each of which also needed to be reset to join the new network.

Hopefully we won’t have to go through all this again for quite some time…

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