Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain."
~Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Thanks, Steven - for a while there I thought I was shoveling dodo bird shit. Free association facilitates interpreting head butting of loved ones as uncivilized. We're just struggling with that whole ascertain dilemma. When I grow up, I'd like to rendezvous in a pub in Portland and nosh on bacon wrapped scallops while speed dating with my girl. It might get my mind off the ad I saw for kevlar baby blankets to shield that asset from a drive-by. Huxley might as well have banged out a sequel and titled it Stunned New World. The fear merchants rely on doxxing us romantics and outing us as misanthropes with boner fixations. Nice try, George Will but the music's not getting louder, you're just getting older.

Yesterday was election day and 7 jitbags candidates for Governor lost to None of These Candidates. Yes, there is hope. Plunder the panderers. Pretend politics is exciting but know it matters. Wake the town and tell the people, Blanche is a minx and a verb.