Thursday, March 18, 2021

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.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

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.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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.

Monday, March 15, 2021

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.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Numb. 1074 Succor Carl's Son


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

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