Unchained melody

I don't have a clue why that phrase is in my mind tonight. Maybe something from The Righteous Brothers? Anyway, I post it in the hopes that someone will find it profound and assign some deep avant garde meaning to it, and consider me some sort of electronic sachem. Jim Morrison and The Doors - they said the name was profound, from some poem about a passageway into paradise or something like that. On the other hand, The Commodores picked their name at random from the dictionary - the first word they saw was "commode," so they looked further down the column. Maybe I'll found a group if I ever learn to play an instrument - The Wallboards; The Casement Windows. I've got it, The Studs. God, I'm deep.





I went to my Mom's house on the way home. LaElu was there. They were comparing horoscopes. No kidding. I asked when the witch doctor would be there with the shrunken heads, and recommended feng shui to channel the ethereal energy of the house. They were not amused.



Speaking of science, apparently John Raese (pronounced "racy") is running against Jay Rockefeller for US Senator from WV again. At a Republican dinner last night, as reported in the local newspaper, his speech included the assertion that "there is absolutely no scientific evidence for greenhouse gases being caused by burning fossil fuels." How can you argue with that? How can you begin to challenge someone who is so stunningly stupid? Or such a blatant liar. Or, perhaps, mentally ill. He's a gazillionaire who inherited businesses, and says that he runs them. He may, I don't know. His point was to get support as the "friend of coal." WV has much coal deposits. Coal burns with lots of particulates, so it looks very dirty. It also has a good bit of sulphur in it (unlike the preferred "sweet" crude oil) and so when the particulates are removed (electrostatically, I think) the resulting smoke is faintly orange-yellow. Sulphur combines with water and produces airborne sulphur dioxide - acid rain. That's a problem only now being effectively addressed. A good point which he didn't make (because he's too stupid?) is that gasoline burns with about 10% efficiency. That is, the energy potential of the product is used 90% for waste heat and 10% for work. With new coal burning technology, 40% efficiency is within sight. An electric car plugged into the grid uses fuel which releases about 1/3 of the carbon as an equivalent distance driven with gasoline. Science is the answer, technology is the answer, civic responsibility is the answer. But we get fucking stupidity, cupidity and malice. But who else would want to wallow in the political mire?





Something profound - OK, I heard it in the barber shop yesterday. (I'm shorn.) "There ain't no such thing as a woman who ain't pretty." Now THERE is a Truth.





Thinking about putting a post in the community blog about the confederate flag, and displays of it. It's protected speech. It personally offends the hell out of me. I wonder how others feel about it. Of course, I wear the square & compasses, star of life, and fleur-de-lis, and perhaps some folks are offended by some or all of those. Oh, Kath, a St. Michael's medal on the back of the tag with the star of life, too. And those symbols are on my car - it's rather busy.





I bombed the lying son of a bitch who has pissed me off in court today. Friend Dacey convinced me to tone it down, so there was only a fringe of fury there. Lawyers who lie betray the Fellowship.






I just tried to "upload an image." Probably copyrighted. Damn, I'd loved to have thought of that.

Mizpah.

R