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Incessantly exploring the question:
Why does everything suck so much?
LEAP DAY 2/29/2016. 24 extra hours of sweeet calendrical joy in 2016!
Happy Valentines Day 2016 - from THE PAULMIGHTY
Today, Feb. 12, is Charliham Lincwin day!! Yes, Abraham "A. Fevah" Lincoln and Charles "Chuckie D." Darwin, two of the most important figures in 19th century history, were born on the same day 2/12/1809. How can we celebrate this momentous occasion? Here are some activities:
- Emancipate your slaves (but only the southern ones).
- Embark on a multi-year voyage of exploration to revolutionize our worldview of biology.
- Find a great event that occurred four score and seven years ago. Use it to introduce a pivotal speech delivered at the site of a recent battle; Falujah maybe?
- Help modern Americans rediscover humility via accounts of the astonishing global effects of the humble earthworm.
- Build a time machine, travel to Washington D.C., April 14, 1865. Attend a play at Ford's Theatre under your nom de temps J.W. Booth. One of us already has done / will do this.
- GROW A BEARD!! Ladies, you too; we didn't develop testosterone therapy for nothing.
Various cosmetic changes coming to thePaulmighty.com. More structural & content-related changes soon. Happy 2016 to all!
The best description of Microsoft PooperPoint EVAR, from Charles Stross's excellent novel The Jennifer Morgue. Priceless!
PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon behind the computer has something significant to say. It's the tool of choice for pointy-headed idiots with expensive suits and skinny laptops who desperately want to look as if they're in command of the job, with all the facts at their fiddling fingertips, even if Rome is burning in the background. Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint.
Proving even a broken clock can be right twice a day, the Obama administration on Wed 12/17/2014 announced a move to normalize relations with Cuba, including a U.S. embassy in Havanna. Thawing the chill with our pint-sized Cold War nemesis is long overdue. This might prove to be the only effective action in the lacklustre presidency of the slick, disinterested Chicago crony / Wall Street lackey called Barack Obama.
The policy change is perhaps the only time that Obama has actually confronted powerful interests, although one may question whether the shrill voices of a rapidly aging cohort of Cuban exiles still constitutes "power" as usually defined. In textbook Obama fashion, he throws his weight towards an issue of little interest to the public-at-large, making a move that rational interests already decided long ago. As usual he misses the fight but claims the victory. Leadership indeed.
Is Salt Lake City mayor Ralph Becker an ISIS plant carefully designed to undermine faith in municipal government, or is he just an incompetent crony-favoring hack? Can't he be both?
Lord Mayor Becker is a textbook case of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action, part of the vast host of excessively groomed American politicos completely unaware of the proper role of the municipal government.
Tax-funded 2500 seat playhouse? Sure! But we need a special "fee" to pay for neighborhood street lights, a core public-commons issue. His Lordship and associated toadies apparently do not realize that municipal taxes are actually collected for such issues, not as a petty-cash fund for special-interest projects.
From his expensive parking meter fiasco to the massively overcomplicated, over-painted, and over-concreted 300 South redesign Becker is a spewing fount of solutions for non-existent problems, a tireless champion of fixing the not-broken.
JOKE: What is the difference between The Honourable Mayor Becker and Ebola? One of them is a rampaging threat to public well-being that makes me bleed from my eyeballs. The other one is just a virus. BAH-DUM-BUMP CHA!!
P.S. Dear Apple, Google, Facebook, and so many others: Fuck you and your sketchy business practices. You do not own my data, my internet surfing history, or my computer. I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and shit out better music software than iTunes. To reiterate, Fuck You.
Practice Safe Surf now. Install Firefox, Ghostery, Adblock Plus, BetterPrivacy, and / or Flashblock. Search the 'net with DuckDuckGo, with way more privacy and waaaay less tracking and ad clutter.
Happy Valentines Day 2013 - from THE PAULMIGHTY
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch continues his long-standing tradition dodgy corrupt fuckery. He and other legally empowered gangsters in our so-called government managed to shovel yet more truckloads of public money to multi-national corporate bio-shysters Amgen via last-minute, under the table insertion of special interest legislation in an unrelated bill; typical practice here in the waning days of the American empire.
All this was executed by former goverment employees turned Amgen lobbyists, aided by their neo-fascist former Amgen pals now working for you the people. Hatch and his cronies performed this legislative chicanery as payback for Amgen bribes (oops, campaign finance contributions). A country at all concerned with justice or democracy would deem all of this illegal and Hatch et al. would be prosecuted posthaste, but look instead for more under-the-rock business as usual in the land of Liberty and Justice for the rich. Read more in Bill Moyers' excellent article.
Ray Bradbury, R.I.P. 6/5/12. Thanks for 91 years of kicking ass, and for your effect on the mind of the young Paulmighty. The Martian Chronicles is unforgettable, and Obamney is doing everything it can to make Fahrenheit 451 a work of contemporary politics instead of fiction.
R may be for Rocket, but by Paulmighty decree it hereafter means... Ray Bradbury.
Happy Birthday to Tattiana, The Paulmighty's roomie! Scheduled events...
- Wed 5/30/12 - Gracie's patio for bday refreshment. Wed is a weeknight, so celebrations continue Fri...
- Fri 6/1/12 - Dinner, location TBD, 7:30ish. Dinner dress strongly encouraged. Maxwell's for Bday shenanigans, after dinner til late. After-party possible depending upon demand, text TPM for details.
PAULMIGHTY BREAKING EXCLUSIVE! Excerpt below from a world-shaking Paulmighty interview-scoop. More coming later...
PM: Any thoughts about people, especially our political leaders, acting in Your name? We're in the midst of an election for the President of the U.S., and You come up alot. Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and the rest.
JC: Obama, Romney, Santorum... Santorum (smile, pause, slight head-shakes), look Rick, thanks for trying, of course in your own almost childlike, very limited, human way, to do good things in My / Our name. But if you actually read, really really read, the stuff that I / We left for you, and look at the vast universe outside of any particular book, you may come to the conclusion -- no guarantees mind you, just maybe think about this for a bit -- that some of what you say you are doing in My / Our name is actually stuff that you believe that doesn't really relate to Me / Us and My / Our feelings and intentions. And you know, I / We are not saying that Heaven is an exclusive club with some sort of big-muscled bouncer and a list, but... well, right now you're not on the list.
More Coming soon from THE PAULMIGHTY!
Holy fucking shit, Listen to this song!! Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People. The video is a sodden lot of hipster douchery but Jesus Allah Buddah the fucking song is like listening to a sparkly unicorn whispering sweet nothings directly into your sound card. By God's balls this song...
We lived an adventure
Love in the Summer,
Followed the sun till night
Reminiscing other times of life,
For each every other
The feeling was stronger,
The shock hit eleven' Got lost in your eyes
I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me,
but I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?
Yo I'm M.C. Quine and I'm here to say, "Yo I'm M.C. Quine and I'm here to say, "Yo I'm M.C. Quine and I'm here to say "Yo I'm M.C. Quine and I'm here to say, "Yo I'm M.C. Quine and I'm here to say, "Yo I'm M.C. Quine and I'm here to say, "... Peep's make formal statements that read like THIS, "Peep's make formal statements that read like THIS, "Peep's make formal statements that read like THIS, "Peep's make formal statements that read like THIS, "... QUINEIFY IT !!
Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down - Armed Forces Journal. Read this if you're interested in how 'Merka fucked up a war.
ENTER THE VOID: Saturday 2/25/12, 10:45 PM @ Tower Theatre (9th S 9th E)
Free screening, open invite, bring anyone who wants to see an incredible movie.
Attend a free Paulmighty private screening of this important, intense, neon-lit journey of an orphaned brother & sister through a gritty yet glittering Tokyo from controversial and possibly insane French director Gaspar Noé. Experience the human condition from it's dizzying highs through stupefying lows courtesy of THE PAULMIGHTY! Watch the trailer...
Happy Valentines Day 2012 - from THE PAULMIGHTY
My blog should be up in a few days. Oh yes.
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