Geeking Out

Just got my new black nano. Geeking hard.

What I want from Government

Maybe it's just what I listen to, but when I hear self-proclaimed pundits and libertarians decry the loss of personal freedoms and nanny culture, I agree with them, even though that's perhaps the one area we can agree.

They bring up the lack of harm from second-hand smoke, I'll buy that and agree to it. I hate the smell of smoke, it turns my stomach, but that doesn't give me the right to tell you not to smoke. Along the whole line of these issues of protecting people from themselves, I think we've gone too far.

But I can't help but argue with libertarians on corporate controls and on economic issues. I believe in environmentalism and limiting the freedom of corporations, or at least corporate hand-outs and the lack of accountability it seems there is for corporations as a whole. But I know that those are separate beliefs. I know some environmentalists complain about paper deforesting the world. Let me tell you something, that's bullshit. Most of the wood actually used in paper is farmed, because wild growth wood is too full of imperfections to be properly useable to a paper-mill.

I want there to be some limitations to the way that corporations are allowed to act, separating them from the lawmaking process, actually letting what's good for this country come before what's good for Disney.

A new political party

I have a suggestion for a new political party, the Rationalists. A party that analyzes what has worked in society and doesn't and looks to apply what works. The process of government being decided and carried out by some semblance of the scientific method. The goal of the group would be to try promote America as a solid nation and drive forward the human experience.

Part of the problem I can see is the goal, but that can be argued out. What doesn't need to be worked out is what methods work and what methods don't. Both sides are holding on to ideas to don't work.

But it probably won't work. We don't like logic in this country. We like strength and displays of power and faith.

There is no plan!

There is no plan to the world, only the laws. If it's your choice to believe in god, then why would he waste energy to create the world from whole cloth. We have an understanding of the laws of nature, we can figure out how the universe and the planet came into being. Why would a god create a universe of laws and rules, rules that demand life, as we see it at the bottom of oceans and see biological chemicals in comets.

Also if anyone wants to argue Evolution, which happened, look at this link: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/
Thanks to John Rogers of http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/ for this link, and excellent rants.

I need to write down my rants.

Once or twice a day, I have these thoughts that come across and beg to be written down or recorded in some fashion. I set up this as a place to do it. I need to start doing this.