The Inscrutability of Fear
Occasionally, one of you (at most, two) will email and ask "Why are you not writing your blog anymore." In all honesty, I can't really say anything about that which would form any sort of coherent explanation for you - or myself, for all that matters.
Sometimes, the brilliance just doesn't seem to want to commit itself to the written word. Not to say that there aren't, at any given moment, a number of brightly shining rants simmering somewhere in that scary tunnel between my amygdala and neocortex. Because there are you know.
I present a series of random questions which, though they may be ultimately answerless, should nonetheless receive some level of study. The amount of study such questions may actually, ultimately warrant is an equation which will not be solved without turning the lights up a notch. Which brings me to:
More to Fear than Fear itself?
1. If the Republican Party leadership is really so concerned about the heavy metal pollution occasioned by compact fluorescent bulbs, why did so many of them use old school rectal (thus mercury filled) thermometers on their infant children? If tight assholes are a heritable trait - and I have no science to support this theory but only substantial anecdotal evidence - wouldn't this have been be an extremely dangerous practice?
2. If women are the weaker sex, why are so many married men demonstrably terrified of their wives?
3. If lawyers can scare the shit out of people by simply sending them pieces of paper with black toner powder electrostatically affixed to them, imagine the panic which would ensue if they sent live snakes instead. OK, that's not a question.
4. Is the fact that the latest mass murderer of global repute a Norwegian evidence of progress in the GWOT? Yes, the Pentagon actually uses this acronym for the Global War On Terror
5. Stated as a percentage, what proportion of automobile horn honks in Houston result from an impulse to scold as opposed to the stated purpose of those horns - to avoid danger?
6. If the middle class is in serious trouble, and the ruling class has its hand on the money, why are so many of the former obese, while so many of the latter dangerously thin?
As you might guess, I do have some ideas about these matters... But it may be several more months before I can find the time to write about them.
I am horribly busy.