In honor of America’s birthday, here’s three reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.
In other words, we’d be more like Canada but warmer. Would that be so bad?
Day: July 4, 2015, 10:34 AM
Spelled out
I’ve embedded this before. I’ll probably embed it again. It’s my favorite rock/blues performance by anyone, ever.
The way she bends those notes. I could practice for a decade and couldn’t do that. That’s a song I didn’t even like till she owned it so hard the stage about melted.
Conventional wisdom is that women just can’t play the guitar because their dainty little hands or something. I’d invite anyone to watch this performance and claim such a stupid fucking thing.
Crazy
Damn, that really works as bluegrass.
Blasphemy and triggers
It’s interesting how human thought always follows parallel tracks even in supposedly positionally opposed groupings.
Blasphemy is profaning the sacred. “Triggers” in Tumblr-speak and its outgrowths is the broaching of taboo topics that violate the supposed sensitivities of various assumed-to-be traumatized groups.
However different these may seem, both evolved eventually to achieve the same end: to control the ideological direction of thought and to proscribe any out of bounds thinking on any issue.
Humans shamble down the same worn paths time after time. It gets a bit boring, really.