Well…as you know, I have been quite bored lately and, trying to keep my brain occupied, I have been a doing a few small things like counting wooly bears, snakes, and other things along the trail…but, this newest one was spurred or by seeing trash along the roadside. So, for the past couple of weeks, I have been counting fast food trash that I see along the road just to see what restaurant has the biggest litterers in their clientele…and the winner, with over 90% of the litter is McDonald’s….93 of the 102 bags I counted over the past two weeks were from McDonald’s and I wonder why that would be…not sure I’m ready to draw any conclusions yet but I will after I think about it for a while….but, right now, back to soccer….
Category Archives: Misc
Trains and Locomotives….
Well…being behind for the month, I thought I’d just do one on this weird show that I have become hooked on on the RFD channel…this one is dedicated to farmers, ranchers and country living but has a few shows that I watch when I can find them…one of those is “Trains and Locomotives” that consists of grainy old 8 and 16mm films of huge old steam engines going down the tracks…a little narration is all that comes with the shots and it is somehow sort of compelling to see these million pound machines hauling along the tracks….not sure if it is the bygone era that interests me or that they just sound and look so cool….but, I find myself watching every time it’s on…weird….
RIP Jack Bruce….
Well…it not a happy day when another musician that you like dies….and today it was Jack Bruce. Best known for being the bassist for Cream and singing many of their hits like “White room” and “Badge” with Eric Clapton, he also had a long and varied career with groups that read like a who’s who of the 60’s and 70’s…even spending some time with Leslie West in the group West, Bruce and Laing….not much else to say right now except rest in peace, Jack….
If you had any doubt..
Well…if you had any doubt about the damage that human activities have had on the environment…beyond global warming…you just have to look at the new study that just came out over the past few days that found that populations of wildlife have declined by 56% on average over the past 40 years…more than half of the world’s wildlife is gone in just 40 years…I’m sure that the climate change deniers will say that it is just “natural variation” and that humans have nothing to do with it…but, deforestation and destruction of habitats to continue to strip mine and harvest dirty energy is a major factor in this decline….but, we won’t learn, after all who cares if there are tigers or elephants left in wild…they just get in the way of the speed of the destruction of the planet…geez…
Just saw “The Unbelievers”
Well….in a haze of boredom, I was just surfing through Netflix and came upon a documentary called “The Unbelievers” about Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss and their efforts to promote science and reason instead of the superstition that is religion. It was surprising to see some famous people who “came out” as atheists in this film but also refreshing….people like Adam Savage from Mythbusters….Penn Gillette, Cameron Diaz, Woody Allen and many other people who have embraced the idea that religion needs to go. One of the signs that I saw in the crowd at the biggest atheist rally in history in Washington summed up the contrast…”Science flies people into space…religion flies people into buildings…” Might make that my sig line over at Kos for a while….
This is just sick…
Well…with the murder in Ferguson and the many others across this country where unarmed black men are killed by the police, I found this latest video that I saw a few days back just sick….a drunk, old, white guy is pointing his AR-15 at the cops and can you guess what happened? Well…he certainly didn’t get shot, that’s for sure…you hear the cops saying to the guy “…sir, could you please put the gun down..” and ‘why are you mad at us?” After many other “sirs” and “please”…the guy puts the gun down and the cops arrest him….but the charges were dropped the next week since he said he was sorry….I kid you not…a black kid with his hands up gets killed…a black kid with his hands cuffed behind his back “shoots himself” in the chest…but this white guy is treated like a king and even given his gun back after pointing it at the cops and threatening to kill them….this crap is just sick…and, it IS racist….no other way to say it…geez…
RIP Robin Williams
Well…woke up to the sad news this morning that Robin Williams has died from an apparent suicide….I remember the first time I saw him on Happy Days and how he just cracked me up…which continued throughout his career…..from what I understand, he fought the black of depression his entire life as I have…..what a shame….Rest In Peace, Robin….
Some thoughts….
Well…politics are looking like they are going to get going again in a little while but this one is not about politics…it is just thoughts…saw a great special honoring Neil Young last night where they had assorted artists come on to do his songs…one of the best was Ben Harper…yeah, I don’t know who he is either, with three backup singers doing “Ohio”….wonderful voice and he got what the song was about..it seems that a bunch of them didn’t get the meaning of the rest of the songs and interpreted them strangely…one of the weirdest was Josh Groban doing “Harvest moon” where he overpowered that quiet little love song….no nuance to it at all…you didn’t feel the song like you do when Neil sings it….but, it was a nice diversion in a boring night…and one cool part was the CSN came on to do a song for Neil, too…pretty neat…in fact, I’m watching them right now on AXS tv….
RIP James Garner…
Well….saw in the news that James Garner died over the weekend and that makes today a little sad…since I can remember, he was in the world that I inhabited…not in the same circles obviously, but in movies and tv….and “The Rockford files” was one of my favorite shows of all time..for so many years…Friday nights at 9 o’clock was time for Rockford….and it is funny and something that I always say is that you can be successful and a nice guy…and he was both…RIP…
And the rich wonder why people hate them…
Well…just a short one on an article that I read in one of the papers this morning about how airlines are starting to put more space between first class passengers and the rest of the unwashed masses since surveys of these rich people made staying far away from normal passengers their top priority…it isn’t bad enough that first class passengers are first on and first off the plane, now they just never want to even see anyone who can’t afford to fly first class. To add insult to injury, Delta is changing their frequent flier program to award rewards based not on the miles you fly but on the COST of your ticket, essentially eliminating any reward for anyone but first class passengers. Just like their gated communities, skyboxes, and having servants so they don’t have to mix with us poor folks…every day the rich do everything they can to make sure the rest of us know our place in the world…and it isn’t in first class…geez…