One for the Road

A long overdue posting -kerb

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:20:00 -0400

A long overdue posting -kerb

Unforgivable

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:24:55 -0500

Unforgivable

A collaborative effort. Song by Ben. Images by Jeff.

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:47:46 -0500

A collaborative effort. Song by Ben. Images by Jeff.

The Thomas Jefferson Hour - A lifestyle

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:27:30 -0500

The Thomas Jefferson Hour - A lifestyle

Watch me hit this drive…

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:18:40 -0500

Watch me hit this drive…

Definitely worth checking out from about 1 hour and 10 minutes...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:58:43 -0500

Definitely worth checking out from about 1 hour and 10 minutes on. Pretty impassioned speech by the mayor of Newark, Corey Booker.

Happy Birthday Ricky, even if it is a few months...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:24:04 -0500

Happy Birthday Ricky, even if it is a few months late.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4505416a10.html

You are beautiful, no matter what they say. -kerb

"Newcastle’s Geordie fans come with all the assorted jokes. They’re louts, lardos and..."

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:54:44 -0500

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Newcastle’s Geordie fans come with all the assorted jokes. They’re louts, lardos and drunkards. When shirtless, it’s hard to tell the men from the women. They are probably unemployed. They support their team beyond all reason on message boards. But, they are true, passionate fans – you would have to be to root for Newcastle. They would be pathetic and heartbroken.

Spurs fans are abusive, racist and homophobic, which is marginally worse than Newcastle’s Mido-directed malevolence. What edges the judgment toward them is expectation. Spurs spent heavily in the summer, forcing fans into the delusion of a Champions League place. For Tottenham fans to travel from those heights to relegation in nine months would be catastrophic, and amusing for those not involved.”

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- “Who would you rather see relegated: Newcastle or Tottenham?”

http://www.epltalk.com/who-would-you-rather-see-relegated-tottenham-or-newcastle/4285

Hard to disagree. Howay the toon! -kerb

This is insane. -kerb

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:51:02 -0500

This is insane. -kerb

What could have been. Pianos. -kerb

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:46:00 -0500

What could have been. Pianos. -kerb

-kerb

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:40:00 -0500

-kerb

“For fifteen centuries we have been wrestling with Thy freedom, but now it is ended and over...

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:49:00 -0500

“For fifteen centuries we have been wrestling with Thy freedom, but now it is ended and over for good. Dost Thou not believe that it’s over for good? Thou lookest meekly at me and deignest not even to be wroth with me. But let me tell Thee that now, to-day, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet. But that has been our doing. Was this what Thou didst? Was this Thy freedom?’” -Fyodor

I like it when I sometimes hit the zone where life dims and...

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:19:00 -0500

I like it when I sometimes hit the zone where life dims and blurs past in a swirl of browns and greys. When they sky is mute and harsh white light washes out pubescent clouds. All around me people are rushing with purpose. Their neurons sequentially fire and they develop goals that they pursue with linearity. What will I become? Who am I now? Where is the place I want to be going to? These are all thoughts that grace our minds at some point or another. In any case , I know well enough that I regularly lose my own focus in a torrent of plans, musings, and analyses relative to my proximal stimulants. This is just so.

Though I use similar words or think in similar patterns, there exists two distinct scales in which my meta-commentary operates. Those things which are important to my now (what will make me feel the way I want to feel, i.e. I want a nap, I want a pukka pie, I want to kick a squirrel) and on the other end of the spectrum is a more detached examination of myself as a part of something larger (why I feel the way I feel, i.e. are my thoughts a product of my cultural surroundings? what is my place in nature? why do people love one another? what is aprivilege? what is a right?).

In the end, my perspective is self-centric despite curious attempts to see the world as others do. The majority of these attempts merely fill in blanks of prefabricated thought templates. As an example, if I want to imagine life as a professional athelete, I will consider the benefits and negatives of strength, fame, adulation, temptation, and responsibility while ignoring the humanity that this template must exist on. With learned, rational thought I flesh out benefits and the drawbacks of this life, but here my rationality betrays the attempt for life is no stranger to irrationality. It is a gradient of stimuli, responses and murky realizations. There is no set form of love, sadness, awareness - they are constant fluxes across peoples and within a person. It is more often that approximations of these basic motivators come to dominate and distract the attentions of man. Love has developed rules. Hatred is a social tool. Awareness is limited by our ability to communicate it.

Until I die I will prod these essences without finding them, even if I trick myself into believing I have. That, if nothing else, is beauty. -kerb

This is not today.

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:26:14 -0500

This is not today.

Even President Obama is concerned with the weight that Jessica...

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:57:00 -0500

Even President Obama is concerned with the weight that Jessica Simpson has put on. She needs a bailout.

-Ben

Noctuary by Bonobo

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:50:00 -0500

Noctuary by Bonobo

Yes, Jessica Simpson has put on some weight. Yes, I find it...

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:45:00 -0500

Yes, Jessica Simpson has put on some weight. Yes, I find it amusing. Why? Well, because I’m not famous and my consciousness has developed in a society trained to find glee in other people’s discomfort, especially when the situation is totally constructed by soulless media for this very purpose. It is sad, and wrong, and I will likely fall into a depression after my initial smirk wears off. My chi is taking far too many of these knocks these days. Luckily, I’ve found residual value in this unfortunate sensational piece that transcends her perceived fatness. That is this: she has “caused ‘fat’ people to die.” Yes, it’s true according to a disgruntled man in a tracksuit who in 2005 recorded a exercise video featuring Simpson. Apparently, this video was so sloppily made that even by Simpson’s muddled standards it was unacceptable for public consumption and its release was blocked. Predictably lawsuits followed, etc and the video remains unreleased to this day (except for a few clips on youtube?). Alex Astilean, the producer, claims that by witholding this video Simpson is directly responsible for the deaths of untold fat people who would have lived had they had access to her previously fit body instructing them how to cardiovascularate. Lesson: I’m now depressed. -kerb

http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=46944

See more photos by jtkerb on TrekNature Now the exception when it was once the rule. Bleeding...

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:23:23 -0500

See more photos by jtkerb on TrekNature

Now the exception when it was once the rule.

Bleeding Heart ~~Liberals~~ ~~Baboons~~ Monkeys.

-kerb

"After much debate, the Conservapedia Panel has finished reviewing the Theory of Evolution page. We..."

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:36:05 -0500

“After much debate, the Conservapedia Panel has finished reviewing the Theory of Evolution page. We have determined that the article will remain protected indefinitely, to protect it from inevitable vandalism. We have decided that the article will not be changed in any major way.”

- Conservapedia upon my trying to edit the evolution page.

Apparently they anticipated my need to seek vengeance for the truth, but have wisely decided to protect their blessed page from the evolutionary “theory”.

"In 2006, the prestigious science journal Science reported concerning the United States: “The..."

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:32:00 -0500

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In 2006, the prestigious science journal Science reported concerning the United States: “The percentage of people in the country who accept the idea of evolution has declined from 45 in 1985 to 40 in 2005. Meanwhile the fraction of Americans unsure about evolution has soared from 7 per cent in 1985 to 21 per cent last year.”[6]

Discover what Wikipedia, the public school systems, and the liberal media don’t want you to know about the creation vs. evolution issue.

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- Conservapedia: “The Trustworthy Encyclopedia”

Not saying you have to believe evolution blow for blow, if you don’t have a background in anthropology, but this is empirical evidence that America has become more stupid. Thanks, conservapedia.

And also, I love how you make the argument that because fewer people think that it is true in 2005 than in 1985, somehow means that it isn’t true. What a frighteningly awful twist of logic this website is. What an incredibly flawed premise that because fewer people can understand a complex issue, it is less true. I don’t understand three dimensional variable calculus, but I still trust that those guys know what they’re talking about.

I’m sorry that “Conservatives” have found the need to create a website which distorts facts and truths in an attempt to comfort their own “values” (as if evolution or creationism is a value, and as such can be part of a “culture war”). It’s quite the argument against holding these views.

BTW, the little thing that you have about there being a 5% decrease in believers vs. a 14% increase in people who are “unsure” would suggest that some people who previously stoutly said that they didn’t believe in evolution (as if believing in evolution is like the tooth fairy), are now open to the idea that they just don’t quite get it.

This website is actual garbage and should be destroyed.