You know, asshole in the Ford Expedition with no understanding of your truck’s size or how to use mirrors, I’d rather you were fishing too.
A polemic.
I think we all agree that prejudiced discrimination is bad, right? Right.
What I think is fun is watching people argue about which groups are the most discriminated against. I think that’s like the funnest thing ever.
For government-authorised systemic discrimination, the group that is shit out of luck is childless single men under the age of 30. They pay the highest proportion of their income in taxes. They use the lowest proportion of government services (almost zero). They receive little to no government assistance. As time goes on, most of the things they like to do (drink, smoke, take drugs, drive fast, hunt, fish, see bands, see live sport) are either being taxed out of existence, or the morality police are campaigning to change them so they no longer appeal to young men.
The constant message to young men is this: there is a problem in society, and it is you.
The kicker, at least in this country, is that they also kill themselves in numbers so high as to beggar belief. Yet almost nobody stands on the side of young men because they have been demonised as the source of society’s ills.
Except that they cost the most in terms of accident clean-up when they drive drunk, insurance claims when they smash their cars into each other (hooning is the term, yes?), and building jails to lock them up when they can’t stand the look on one another’s faces and have to rearrange them. If we could just lock them up from 21 to 30 so that they’d have time to break free of the testosterone poisoning, we’d all be better off.
Trying New Things
Lately I’ve been feeling pretty adventurous. Over the course of my life I’ve waffled between a complete openness to new things and a desire for sameness and consistency. As a child I was terribly picky, but once I left home and realize that nobody was going to make food like Mom (actually Dad, most of [...]
Goldfish murder and defibrillation
(Video long since removed) They drain a fish’s bowl, fill it with Mountain Dew (killing the fish), replace that with water and revive the fish with a 9V battery. Wow. Via Kottke.
links for 2004-11-24
Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media Ed Felten Fish Highway (The links are at the top) Christian Guide to Small Arms Online v.1.0 Just plain crazy. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Just plain crazy, as well.
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