Well, I wound up switching projects... I decided to brush my teeth instead of installing the icemaker in the fridge.
I did get some stuff accomplished though. I got the guy that we're buying the car from to put four new tires on it. And I got insurance on it, too. Yeah, we're getting it for sure... the credit union cut a check this morning, and we're taking it out to the guy tonight after Karen gets off of work. Then all I have to do is get a temporary tag for it, and we're ready to go. And it's still damned hot here. Gonna cool down tonight really nice, though, with a revised forecast of 40% chance of thunderstorms. Then tomorrow, only up to 84F or so. But Saturday it'll be back in the 90s, dammit. I am so ready for autumn already. I have been for a month, I guess. I just don't do well in the heat.
20:15...
So... he's a weasel... like I ever thought any differently. It seems that the main job of right-wing religion is to hold back science at any cost. They've been pretty effective in the last 2000 years or so, but I thought that we were making progress anyway...
It seems like, increasingly, I look at the problems of the world and think to myself that it's not really my problem, it's more my kids problem. Like I'm trying to get out of any responsibility for what has happened and continues to happen... therefore, I don't need to worry about it, or think about it. Kinda like I know that the sun will flare up and go out in, what, 500 million years? I kinda forget the number, it's that unimportant to me. Beyond my lifetime, beyond the lifetimes of anyone that I love.
So it's purely an intellectual question. What are those people going to do in 500 million years? Well, I guess that they'll be smart enough by then to just pack up and leave, 'cause if they don't they'll get roasted. What will happen to my kids if the United States is turned into a theocracy? Well, I hope that they're smart enough and have enough resources to leave. And if I'm still around, I hope that they take me with them!
Heh... my spell-checker wants to replace right-wing with ricochet. I'm gonna try to not read anything into that, my brain is rather fragile tonight.