Numb. 1088 Lookout Or Outlook?

WE'VE GOT Covid.

We've got pollution.

Inequitable wealth

and health distribution.

A broke Constitution,

dying seas rising,

polar downsizing. 

Mass discontent

isn't surprising.

We've got anti-vaxxers,

GOP lower taxes,

unbreathable air
near everywhere,

politicians unthinkable,

water undrinkable,

and, like Titanic,

we think we're unsinkable.

We've got desertification

crumbling nations.

We've disconnected 

effect from causation.

We've got declining fertility,

less social mobility.

We are incapable 

of truth distinction,

here on the brink

of mass extinction.

The weather is running amok.

Everything's coming unstuck.

We've got sexual predators

writing letters to editors.

With jobs disappeared,

who can pay creditors?

“To be”, the verb, 

is no longer copular.

Baseball, our passtime, 

ain't all that popular.

Could this all

be somehow oracular?

The world is shot. 

How long's it got?

Rome, as they say,

wasn't kilt in a day.

But Rome dead end.

That us the trend.

Thank Phenobarbital,

we've nothing to dread, at all.

Numb. 1087 Toward A Permanent Majority

WE CAN ACHIEVE a forever majority

restricting voting to our minority:

WHITE, ancestral NORTH-Europeans, 

perfectly STRAIGHT, unquestioning Christians,

who hold the BIBLE the ONLY authority

and owning guns the highest priority,

believers that life begins at conception,

(though they'd abort Liberals, without exception),

anti-vaxxers for lower taxes,

who hate sin in theory — if not in practice —

who think “climate change” a Liberal-Chink hoax —

good GOP moaks, our kind of folks —

who seek to accelerate OUR LORD's second coming,

who see life on Earth as down-market slumming,

who easily separate depraved from saved, 

who, given the chance, would reinstate slavery,

who are anti-Union and pro-Confederate,

who know organized labor is completely degenerate,

who think blond hair and blue eyes is what God's got,

and if you believe otherwise, they'll have you shot.

Numb. 1086 Missionary Position

The New York Times

Opinion

He’s a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He’d Pipe Down

The Rev. Rick Joyner has called on Christians to arm themselves for civil war. But his children would be on the other side.

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ALL WHO OPPOSE US are purely evil.

They realize, of course, we are right.

It's known far and wide that God's on our side,

that we are the most perfect people in sight.

We can not be safe while enemies chafe at

their God-decreed inferiority.

We have determined their termination

is our number one most important priority.

Whatever it takes to fill the bill.

We dast not be squeamish. It is God's will.

Numb. 1085 Mob Rule

IF THE MOB took over the GOP,

that would not be dramatic.

Despite that fact that historically

the Mafia was Democratic.

One gun, one vote is Mafia Law —

the same as the NRA's is,

although Mafiosi shoot more indoors

and NRA-GOP often deplores

the fusses resulting from such behaviors.

On the other Black Hand, the GOP plan:

absorb THE MOB, combine THE KLAN.

MOB or PARTY? Which would prevail?

The danger is grave, until BOTH are in jail.

Numb. 1084 The Sky IS NOT Falling Just Yet

Much-feared asteroid Apophis won't hit Earth for at least 100 years, Nasa says

Chunk of space rock was once the ‘poster child for hazardous asteroids’ but it will be a while before humans need to worry about it again

The asteroid Apophis was thought to be a risk of hitting Earth in 2068. Photograph: AP

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We have to assume we'll get through this.

We have to assume we'll survive.

We have to assume, not a moment too soon,

the miracle happens, the cavalry arrives.

BUT … if our assumptions are simply presumptions

based on nothing but wishes,

AND, begging the question, suggest the suggestion

may not we all soon sleep with the fishes?

Hope springs eternal. A notion infernal

which nevertheless served us well,

added illusion, enhanced delusion,

diverted conclusion it's all gone to hell.

Such is the nature of Freud's Life Drive.

We've condemned to assume we'll come out alive.

Today this is seen as increasingly quaint

as many now realize that true it ain't.

Forget the future, choose present instead.

As Keynes often warned in the long run we're dead. 

Numb. 1083 Status Quo Vadis

The Russians tried fixing 

their Communist system.

They could not fix it.

They had to deep-six it.

As we tinker with Capitalism

we find it is much the same.

There is no system that works forever.

There is no system that can not be gamed

by wheelers and dealers whose iffy appeals

bring out the worst in us all

and we buy-in to too-good-to-be deals,

ignoring, as always, the words on the wall.

Sooner or later your tents will fold.

Sooner or later you're out in the cold.

Circumstance is not an impertinence.

The permanent thing is impermanence.

Numb. 1082 Know Thorn Hemisphere

Bodies of water are never forever.

Seas, lakes, and gulfs come and go.

Fed by springs, streams, and rivers

which, apart and together, go with the flow.

Puddles dry up, continents drift,

mountains arise in tectonic shifts.

The world rearranges, everything changes.

Do not form attachments to mountain ranges.

Empires rise. Empires fall.

What, after all, is the point of it all?

What matter which actor wins which award?

Who sets what record? What is outlawed?

Things come apart, things coalesce.

Every which way, it is a mess.

Today I find everything so depressing.

But, then again, that's what I do every Spring.

Numb. 1081 American Exceptionalism (Covid edition)

For other countries, Covid is good.

'Bout time THEY learned their lesson.

But it must be understood,

THE U.S. IS THE EXCEPTION.

Cause and effect do not apply

in our shining city high on the hill,

I can not see why they'd bother to try

given our pluck, what with our will.

We are the good guy, in the white hat.

We breathe free, we need no mask.

Covid can't hurt us, and that is that.

(We're divorced from reality, if you need to ask.)

If Covid-19 is Nature's attempt

to combat a pest infestation,

the record will show we are exempt,

in our fantastical imagination.

With our God-given exceptionalism,

we will be safe as end time approaches.

Although this belief causes derision,

we'll laugh here after. Along with the roaches.

Numb. 1080 Spamming Sperm (a version)

SPERM IS biological SPAM.

What is the point of either?

So much ejaculate stuff.

And the result is that lies are

made and innocents played.

I find this extremely distasteful.

Not only that, it is wasteful.

Hundreds of millions, and but one “succeeds” …

why does supply so exceed need?

Where is the wisdom in this cock-eyed system?

Cheap to produce, a breeze to let loose …

the “payoff” is way off and not guaranteed.

Numb. 1079 Immigration Reform

GET THE HELL back where you come from.

To the lands where your ancestors lived.

There is no place for foreigners here,

dirty and dumb, with too many kids.

That goes for last century's Eyeties,

and the previous hundred years' Micks,

the Polacks, the Yids, the Krauts, the Chinks …

EVERYONE, 'specially murdering Spics.

This means you too, blimey Limeys,

you Frogs, you grog-drunken Dutch.

And the descendants of African slaves,

who did not choose to come here, as such.

As to “indigenous” people, 

Redskin and Eskimo,

whose forefathers arrived somewhat earlier.

You, too, will have to go

back where you belong.

Every man jack, to be specific.

Once YOU PEOPLE are back in Africa,

the world, for us, will be terrific.

We NEANDERTHALS wandering continents,

gadding about uncontested,

free of you damnable “sapien” apes

to hunt and gather. As God intended.

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Numb. 1078 Bitcoin (or Nought Pieces Of Ate)

BITCOIN IS this mania's tulip.

One you can't eat by mistake.

In spite of hype and pretty pictures,

bits exist only in cyberspace.

When, as it's bound to, the power grid fails,

no calling “Heads”, no turning “Tails”.

Disappeared bits leave nought to purloin.

There is no THING that is Bitcoin.

Numb. 1077 Justification By Wealth — Elon (a Libertarian celebration)

IN MERIT-ocracy, those who lack merit

do not have rights.

Neither do those whose abilities withered.

They forfeit, therewith, the right to high life.

Down the tubes, losers and rubes.

This is what fairness demands.

Yesterdays fester? Join your ancestors.

Comply, no crying, no wringing of hands.

The old, the sick, the weak, the disabled,

I deem you all undesirable. Those I've labeled

unworthy or useless — wasters of space —

can not be a part of MY MASTER RACE:

Wealth Creators, Rulers Supreme,

every last manjack a near-divine being.

What we do is what merit means.

The rest, I attest … a hill of beans.

The whole universe revolves about us.

Everyone else is superfluous.

If what you do, nobody needs,

that is not merit. That is a weed.

We are the core. We are fundamental.

We are essential. We are transcendental.

By our abilities, the world succeeds.

We are entitled to celebrate greed.

Numb. 1076 Sugar, Spice, Snips, And Snails (for our time)

EVOLUTION encourages aggression in males.

Do NOT try to say it does not.

If something succeeds, helps spreading seeds,

that's the whole the story, the point of the plot.

FEMALES, generally smaller, rely

on craft and cunning and guile.

This significant difference must explain why

far fewer females wind up in jail.

Numb. 1075 Genetic Disability

Y-CHROMOSOME syndrome: 

a pre-existing condition

for which there isn't a cure.

Furthermore, there isn't a treatment.

The disease must be endured.

Carriers, happily, show no ill effects.

Effects affect those with double X.

Numb. 1074 Succor Carl's Son

The Guardian

Tucker Carlson's targeting of Taylor Lorenz follows pattern of berating female journalists

              *   *   *   ¯\_😲_/¯   *  *  *

His mother, a bohemian, left the family when he was six … [Carlson and his younger brother, Buckley] never saw her again. “Totally bizarre situation—which I never talk about, because it was actually not really part of my life at all,” Carlson says.  — THE NEW YORKER, April 10, 2017

              *   *   *   ¯\_😈_/¯   *  *  *

WHY Tucker disparages autonomous women?

A mother who fled his rhyming name?

Did this give rise to schoolyard taunting?

Was this the cause of unbearable shame?

Tucker Carlson, 1975
The Buckley School
BuzzFeed News/Wikipedia

 OF COURSE, in due course, Tucker did wed.

 His headmaster's daughter, in fact.

 For his “career”? Perhaps a “beard”?

 Something to keep his “manhood” in tact?

 HOW is it all FOX-men look closeted?

 And FOX-women like past best-buy-date whores?

 I can not imagine what happens in [off?] camera,

 stuff they get up to behind closed doors.

Numb. 1073 By Partisan

People avow beliefs passing strange

which, somehow, gather adherents.

Think religion. Think politics. Think economics.

Fields known to be prone to incoherence. 

Some people forever fall into error.

Not us, of course. We're ever so clever.

Unfailingly able to suss out THE TRUTH.

Which, in itself, is our ABSOLUTE PROOF.

Proof we (exclusively) know what we're about.

Proof we're superior without a doubt.

Proof we are God's (or history's) tool.

Proof, if you disagree, you are a fool.

A degenerate reprobate. A skunk. A weasel.

Co-existence with you is unnatural, unfeasible.

Your distorted positions are reprehensible.

Your continued existence is indefensible.

Numb. 1072 Hunt

The creature, I think, sensed the danger

as I closed in for the kill.

Yes, it was wary and it found me scary and

it sensed my lack of good will.

It hurriedly scurried but I was too quick.

(The finish took barely two seconds.)

Barehanded I blocked it, I squished it, coldcocked it.

'Twas a near painless end, I would reckon.

Was I justified in taking a life?

Did the creature have a husband, a wife?

Is violence — ever — the correct approach?

What does it matter that I splashed a roach?

A creature, like me, trying just to get by.

What right had I to say it must die?

Should it happen again, will I relent?

Probably not. I pay the rent.

I suppose, in some ways, I swerve Conservative:

if you can't pay, you don't deserve to live.

And if your existence on mine encroaches,

I will dispatch you. If you are roaches.

That said, CONSERVATIVES (in upper case)

care not a jot about species or race.

They see it ALL as moral problems

and killing opponents is the way they solve them.

Knowing that they are beyond reproach,

they are free to see us as roaches

who can be despatched with nary a qualm.

That we exist disturbs their calm.

If we lower orders now seem disgruntled,

think how we'll feel next time we're hunted.

Numb. 1071 The Road To Unwell Is Paved With Bad Inventions

There are so many people alive today

who really shouldn't be here.

“Best intentions” and civilization

created conditions where we are

too myopic to see without glasses,

so overweight we're slow as molasses,

with uber-, middle-, and lower-classes,

ensconced on the couch, flat on our asses.

Civilization, along with religion,

says aid people not “up-to-speed”.

So, unlike ALL other species,

within our unkind the “unfit” succeed

in propagating defective traits

which practical species dismiss.

That is why you never will see

specimens of nearsighted fish.

(In ancient Sparta, newborn “defectives”

were put out on hillsides to die.

A practice, perhaps, a tad too selective

that, today, few would abide by.

Although, I should note 

for “pro-lifers” who vote

on THAT issue alone, 

this might float your boat.)

American — i.e. WHITE CHRISTIAN — “Civilization”

is what many proclaim the base of our nation

as they propound their SELECTIVE humanity.

Selective or otherwise, is that our calamity?

Is this “humanity” blessing or curse?

Is it us at our best or we at our worst?

Care for the needy, while all fine and peachy,

might be a dead end for our self-righteous species …

We can not tell, but, after all,

is that what befell the Neanderthal?

Decrepit old uncles, gouty old louts,

'round the campfire? Then they died out?

Instead had they followed Aleut advice

and pushed dear old granny out on the ice … ?

“It's not that she's useless or that we don't care,

but it does help to feed the odd polar bear.”

The final exam for survival of fittest:

the strongest, the fastest, the quick wittedest.

The results are in and are here unveiled.

We regret to inform you, the lot of you failed.

Numb. 1070 On Compassing

We never can answer “Are we there yet?”

since we never know where we're going.

“Hell. In a handbasket!” seems a safe bet,

when my irascibility's showing.

Whichever way anyone leans,

someone will say, “ARE YOU NUTS?

We can NOT go THERE! NOT by ANY means!

And if you try, I'll rip out your guts!”

Any direction, upon reflection

is bound to offend someone, somewhere.

Any selection will cause an objection

and quickly lead you to nowhere.

Even not choosing is surely a losing 

strategy. Some will insist moving on.

Every direction makes an amusing

tragedy. Sooner or later, everything's gone.

A minute, an hour, a day, a year,

before you know it will all disappear.

And as for “history”, the takeaway

is: “What IN hell was THAT about anyway?”

It rains on “the just” and “the unjust” alike.

Should we tell LIFE, “Go take a hike?”

Should we laugh? Should we cry? 

Should we smile? Should we frown?

Why bother to try … ?

It's the one game in town.

Numb. 1069 Texas Miranda Last Rights

You have the right to be stupid.

You have the right to not wear a mask.

You have the right to get Covid and die.

You have the right to a plain pine box casket.

You have the right to refuse an injection.

You have the right to be a right fool.

You have the right to “live” to Texas.

(And sit, if you like, on a two-legged stool.)

You have the right to be inconsiderate.

You have the right to act like an idiot.

You have the right to be a jerk.

That is how a democracy works.

You have the right to do for yourself,

you Texas dumbasses, BUT NO ONE ELSE!

Numb. 1068 In The Beginning

Commemorative of our first edition. 

“Rhyme For The Day”

Monday, March 6, 2017

Poor little Donald.

Oh, how it stings.

Barack taps his wires.

Vlad pulls his strings.

Spicey complains.

Conway “explains”.

Mikey waits in the wings.

(Who knows where the time went?)

Numb. 1067 Over The River

With every other predator species

we wish their numbers controlled.

While with our own — depending on skin tone —

the goal is forever increasing the fold.

Content, we contend making more of us

will clean up the messes we've caused.

What is this purported exceptionality 

that we feel frees us from natural laws?

Created by God, evolved to be “best”,

or invertebrate-inveterate, hubristic pests?

Numb. 1066 GOP Coalition: Traditional Conservatives

We deplore the sun's setting, 

despise its arising,

abhor all things not of our devising.

We oppose destabilizing

a status quo we find energizing.

Numb. 1065 Wishes Aren't Horses

It is fiction that virtue will manage.

Virtue, in fact, performs below average.

If you are looking for an advantage,

chances improve if you go savage.

It is not likely we'll “save” the planet.

It's foolish to think that we could.

If we eke out a year or two more,

then we can say, “Damn, we done good!”