Do me a favor

Call your representatives in Congress and request a government shutdown.

 

Shut it down!

Birth control

The best form of contraception is other people's kids.

Found the whole quote

"In the system of laws which has been established for the management of our American and West Indian colonies the interest of the home-consumer has been sacrificed to that of the producer with a more extravagant profusion than in all our other commercial regulations. A great empire has been established for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of customers who should be obliged to buy from the shops of our different producers, all the goods with which these could supply them. For the sake of that little enhancement of price which this monopoly might afford our producers, the home-consumers have been burdened with the whole expense of maintaining and defending that empire. For this purpose, and for this purpose only, in the two last wars, more than two hundred millions have been spent, and a new debt of more than a hundred and seventy millions has been contracted over and above all that had been expended for the same purpose in former wars. The interest of this debt alone is not only greater than the whole extraordinary profit, which, it ever could be pretended, was made by the monopoly of the colony trade, but than the whole value of that trade, or than the whole value of the goods, which at an average have been annually exported to the colonies. It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to; and among this latter class our merchants and manufacturers have been by far the principal architects."

-       Adam Smith, "The Principle of the Mercantile System," 1776

 

Truechey!

Assassins Creed!

Burn baby burn!

Awesome day. Went to the range and got to drive through a wildfire on the way home. The pic above is just before entering the inferno. We made it through before they shit down 95. Then, got to play assassins creed, rock band, and watch Black Dynamite on Netflix. Awesome!

In addition to the fire in Laurel we drove through, we heard 15 acres of Germantown burnt to the ground. Wildfires in PG county, Dale city VA, and in shenadoah national park.

Wildfires in MD in February. That makes sense. I am sure this like so many other events will be explained away using La Nina or some other bullshit excuse to ignore the reality of climate change. Keep it up humanity, you know I like my meat well done!

Perfect pour

Without a spoon!

Wasted Days . . .

It’s like the day has turned to rust

Like every dream’s been sealed shut

Like every door has closed before we’d gotten out

As bullets rip the air in two from house to house

 

WE ARE ALL THAT WE ARE, SO TERRIBLY SORRY

WE ARE ALL THAT WE ARE, SO TERRIBLY SORRY

 

-       The Moon Atomic, Angels and Airwaves

The long kiss goodnight

Walking back to the car from the test facility. In my shadow, you can see the shovel I borrowed attached to my backpack for the hike up the hill. For some reason, reminded me of the movie.

Preparation

A lab well equipped to handle the snow.

Worcester lives on

Despite potentially record snowfall this winter.

Actually . . .

The drive home was not so bad in our Hyundai accent thanks to road treatment in MA. DC would be crippled with 8 inches.

And so it begins

40 minutes to drive in. Don't think we will make it in tomorrow. Deciding when to leave today.