Brittlestar: People Are Stupid

No, it's not the result of yesterday's provincial election that prompted this title, although in light of it, Brittlestar's latest does seem apt. 

BTW, only 43% managed to rouse themselves from their torpor to vote yesterday.

H/t Moudakis

Now Here's A Thought

 For sane and reasonable Americans, this has gotta hurt:

H/t Mike Lukovich

Pavlov Had His Bell

 ... and the dogs responded accordingly. Marjorie Taylor Greene has her "peach tree dishes," also guaranteed to get the MAGA dogs salivating, even baying.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says the government is planning to “zap” people inside their bodies if they try to eat a real cheeseburger.

De Adder Strikes Again

I have nothing to add to this depiction by Michael de Adder of a diseased America we would all be well-advised to steer clear of.

The End Of Days

In these latter days of our life as a species, there is little that shocks or dismays me. Instead, I find my predominant emotion now is one of disappointment:

Disappointment that we never realized our potential as a species. 

Disappointment that our headlong plunge into oblivion is done with eyes wide open, getting and spending, using and abusing, directed mostly by our petty and shortsighted impulses and preoccupations. 

We could have been so much more.

There will be no apotheosis, and there certainly will be no deus ex machina to bring us back from the brink. That is surely the stuff of fantasy, the hope of the benighted.

Probably George Carlin said it best in a 1996 interview. Thanks to the salamander horde for posting this on Twitter:

In Gun We Trust

 

H/t Moudakis

Just a brief post.

As a parent of two and a grandfather of one (our granddaughter was born last August), I do not have the stomach, the heart or the psychic strength to really contemplate the ongoing horror that is the United States. Nor can I read or watch the protracted coverage in the media of the self-induced, oh so predictable, massacres that have become a regular part of that blighted landscape.

Although we in Canada have had our share of terrible shootings, the fact that they are rare is largely attributable to the sanity that undergirds our gun laws. It really is as simple as that. Contrast that with all of the misdirected comments about mental illness in the U.S. when the inevitable happens again and again there, with nary a mention of the real underlying cause, the American love of the gun and the the weak laws that fuel that love. 

One final note: despite the dimensions of the tragedies, I don't see why Canadian media are spending so much time and so many resources covering what has happened in that alien country. It will not bring back the victims, and, I believe, it blurs the distinctions between us and them. 

Note to the U.S. It is time you changed your national motto to one more reflective of your befouled character. 

Paltry Offerings - Part 5

The same, of course, can be said of the other two major contenders in the June 2 election.

H/t Moudakis

Given the dearth of  plausible ideas put forth during this campaign slog, I nominate the following as 2022's unofficial anthem for those seeking office: