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The great ship off state. Slippery buttery creamy cultured. Parties for the Party. If you don’t know where it is, you will never get there.

Grand Zero

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A story

in which our hero, Captain Capital, saves the world. By “the world” we mean himself.

The fire began in his house, so the klaxons rang. The fire was in his money vault, it hadn’t been equipped with sprinklers. Nor was it monitored by the “night watchman” trained by the great Nozickary. So the fear spread faster than the flames. Fear First from heart to heart, then fire came house by house. Mainstreet was ablaze. The piles of money hoarded by Captain Capital were great; far greater than any on Mainstreet imagined or knew.

Lucky for US. By “US” we mean Captain Capital. Luckily we put out the fire, then set out to replace Captain Capital’s money, so his vault could keep him occupied and away from Mainstreet. Some of US had thought Captain Capital would help Mainstreet put out its fire, but he had already begun celebrating his genius at having come through such a devastating event. He had taken residence once again at Grand Zero, setting out his guardians to keep his money away from Mainstreet.

In other times, by other sayers, it is said that “where you put the water is where things grow”, that “to raise the boat use water”, that “small boats rise with less water.” But the story Captain Capital tells is that he is “seed corn” and his vaults are seeds you need. Maybe next time US. By “US” I mean You and Me. Maybe the next time we will put out the fires that will come to his vault, by spreading the water more widely. Spread the water into the small boat yards. Spread the water into more shops and houses.

Let Captain Capital fill his own vault next time. Let him put out the fire in his house using his own piss and sweat.

Barndoors & Guns

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After reading this from Dilly Kos.

There are difficulties in understanding correlation, cause-effect, sequence, longitudinal-slice studies, but think of gun arguments another way. Do you suppose that the restrictive gun ordinances that have been overturned were passed before or after gun violence was well underway?

Suppose that you are a small farming community in rural Kentucky. The farmers raise horses, valuable horses. Horses wander; it is their nature to go to other pasture. Suppose several shed row workers are always leaving the barndoors open. Horses wander. Do you think the rule, “anyone leaving the barndoors open will be fired” is passed before or after the horses are already wandering widely and regularly? Me too; I think it is passed after. That is the way of legislation and the legislators. They act after.

What do you think the statistics would show? The Supremes in this idyllic drama would be shown stats that proved that the barndoor rule was in violation of the peoples’ right to be stupid at your expense. Clearly the law didn’t stop horses from running wild, therefore we shall overturn this barndoor closing rule.

And so they did.

So what does this mean to you and your own town of barndoors? The simple law states that: “what you make easy to do is what is done” means that you will soon find more horses wandering your fields. Yippee kiyo muthafucka….. You may now star in your own wild western.