Chickens & Munitions

It would be of little importance how large your 401K is, your stock portfolio or the Roth if you were unable to access fresh water. Ditto for food. In our immediate future there is a war brewing not for oil and gold, but for the basic necessities of existence. As the world becomes increasingly more populated the demand for food and water grows with it. Supply is finite, and some say even shrinking as arable land is diminishing and evaporation increasing with elevated planetary temperatures. What's a myopic species to do?

In a recent discussion I found, quite by accident, a subject that'll get women flying across a room or launching a heavy projectile in your direction. As a single guy and oft-labeled instigator the temptation to indulge such matters is simply irresistible. The following are some talking points for around the Christmas tree or gathering consisting of predominantly women, so long as you're either well bodily armed or in close proximity to an exit. The subject is whether we should repeal the 19th Amendment. Most of the women won't stir at this general statement simply because they don't know what the 19th said. It's women's suffrage. The right for women to vote in the U.S. And it should be repealed.

Before you go rolling your eyes let me state the logic or reasoning behind such my seemingly chauvinistic position. The founding fathers may or may not have had this idea in mind meaning that they may have deliberately omitted women from voting. Is it because they were all products of the patriarchal times? Maybe. More likely though is the easily defended point that women will opt for security over freedom. And to establish a free society, a Union that can withstand the test of time only freedom-loving individuals can assure its survival. This does not mean that some women aren't freedom-loving but rather that most, particularly the less-educated ones will vote for issues and candidates that will rob the rest of us of our hard-won freedoms for the bogus security they claim that X will provide. I'm reminded of this as I hear idiotic callers to talk shows showing support for Shrillary simply because she's a woman. And that the majority of support for our socialist candidates on the left are women. Don't ya know my baby needs health care and the evil GWB has refused to further fund it? Maternity leave. Use the force of government to compel companies to pay for this pregnant employee while they're home, and not producing. For a fun exercise, please enter some of your own ideas here and have a blast this Holiday season :)

Wallow in the Hollow

That's pretty much the outlook lately. As I sat in my cave for the last month barely communicating with the outside world I was shocked to find that I wasn't alone. Most of my galpals were on the verge of tears for one reason or another and the stressors of work and family have my guy friends grasping for an out. What's going on? (I scream from the top of my lungs) Basically for my part I'm tired of cement. And traffic. And mini-malls and corruption and how nothing is sacred anymore. It's like watching the fall of Rome before our very eyes as hordes of ants travel in 10 simultaneous directions with no real place to go.

I never truly believed in a national/worldwide psychic grip but despair seems to have penetrated the human condition. Look around. As compared to a mere decade ago, how many people do you know that are happy? What's robbing you of your joy? What's robbing all of us of our collective joy and pride in country?