Neanderpundit

It’s Barack Hussein Obama, you dumbass.

Look: The whole of Atlas Shrugged was only incidentally about how statism is bad and how capitalism isn’t. Those things are true, but the larger picture is about a group of egotistical pains in the ass shutting down as much of the planet as possible to remold it in their image. And that’s just what you have now, and don’t you forget it.

No matter how unlike Galt is Obama, No matter how unlike Dabney Taggart is Pelosi, no matter how unlike Reardon is Rahm, what they are doing is the fucking same. They have the courage of their convictions that what they are doing is the right thing (not “right” in a meaningful sense, just “Right” in their twisted view) and they have grabbed the reins of power, and are using them to enforce their agenda. Atlas is shrugging, and the load is dropping directly on you and I. And it will remain there until WE shrug.

Look: Hank Reardon is an utter fiction, and always will be. The closest thing you had to Hank was Henry Ford, and he’s been gone a long time. Nothing like that exists anymore. The actual work of inventing and producing things has been in the hands of the research laboratory and in the garages of motivated amateurs since Edison built the Menlo Park lab over a hundred years ago. That whole annoying book is really about using whatever tools are at hand (And boy, do I mean TOOLS) to force the population to toe the line and do the right thing. It’s as stupid to believe in Dabs and Hank and John as it is to believe in Nancy and Brak and Rahm. There is no group of elites that know what is best for us, and to give them the levers of power to make it happen is a clusterfuck of the first water.

Atlas Shrugged. You’re living it. Hope you like it.

I have all my life been a packrat. I have built a nest for myself which leaves me surrounded by piles of books, racks of guns, CD’s, actual record albums, newspaper clippings, furniture which should have been retired ages ago, broken electronics (which,while I’m capable of repairing them, I tend not to) and the collected effluvia of a half century of weapons grade packrattiness.

I’m done.

I have a core of books I love, and read often, and they are mixed amidst literally thousands of others. I will find new homes for the thousands, and cherish the few.

I have a round handful of rifles and shotguns with no intrinsic nor sentimental value. I have a handful of rifles and shotguns that are dear to me.I will find new homes for the odd, and cherish the few.

I have a lot of crap in my life, and it constitutes an albatross. I have had it all hanging around my neck for far too long. In upcoming months I will be making every effort to make my house more Ikea and less Paper Street Soap Company. I want my home to be less cluttered and more what I want and need. I want to surround myself with less chewed up newspaper and scrap, and more first edition and burl walnut. Organization has always been my strong point- for everyone else. I need to turn my attention for detail inward and use it at home, and make this a place where I want to be and where I am comfortable entertaining.

The last ten years, the first of a new millenia, have been rough on us all; 2010 looks to be the worst year (for the world) in my life. I intend to make it my best personal year, and do things uncharacteristic for me.

One of the changes I have made, is to begin to use Quicken. If you’re not doing this, you might want to consider it. I’ve never been good at keeping my own finances straight, and this has put me right on the edge. I know just what I need and where it’s going.

None of it is good, but at least I know.

While those of you who drink prepare for the bacchanalia tomorrow night, I have a few links (in a tradition I started a few years back)
Anyway. Here’s a roundup of some merely strange and some definitely nsfw links for 09.

Marry your Inflatable Girlfriend at the Inflatable Church!

Ninja Burger!

How to properly use The Dreaded Apostrophe!

I don’t know what this is, but the music is pretty annoying, and every click is a new and unexplored area of goofiness.

Asciimation wars. Too much time on their hands. Really.

Consecutive Number Plate Spotting. Guess everyone has to have a hobby.
From a site called “College Sex advice: Gay Linux Sex positions

Also from “College sex advice: Recession sex tips

The Blair Witch Blackhead

Along those lines, if you know a woman obsessed with getting out blackheads, there’s a help line for that now.

And some moenkeyboy ass zit fun.

Scrotum!

Epileptics, beware.

Californian’s vision of the world. Explains a lot, really.

Holy Plastic Beefy! Whatever.

Art thou allergic?

Secret nazi pizza.