After a long absence.

Hunter returns.

He is welcome.

it seems that every time I want to bitch, even the cost of bitching goes up.  Just in terms of the energy it takes to repeat the ever-increasing litany of lies and abuses from Obama, doubling exponentially in real time.

I’ve given some thought to what Armando said about re-electing Barack Obama for the sake of the Supreme Court, i.e., women’s reproductive rights.  I am a complete advocate of women’s reproductive rights.  To my mind, women quite obviously “own” pregnancy.   End of conversation.  Goodbye.  Click.

Had we carried on beyond the click, suffice it to say that when men get pregnant and carry offspring to term, and be bound to the little curtain climbers for life, then I’ll take more interest in men’s stupid f****** opinions and moral authority with respect to women’s reproductive rights.  Until then, men are hardly worthy to discuss it, AND they are genetically conflicted and selfish to boot, which has life-threatening consequences for women, both during pregnancy and not.

Ray Kurzweil believes the “singularity,” his vision of man/machine cyborg, “the borg,” is imminent.  This douche-nozzle bases his predictions on recent evolution, the exponential increase in human knowledge since the age of oil.  You tell me what’s wrong with that argument.  To call him a “douchebag” insults douchebags.  

The same, the exact same, is true of Matt Ridley.  How I hate these douchebags.

I really hate them.

If I could choke them out, I would.  Stupid, lying-ass bastards, and dumb mother fuckers to boot, despite their degrees.

Please pardon my realism.  I would gladly choke them.

Nick Lane’s “The 10” great biological inventions:

life itself

dna

photosynthesis

eukaryotes

movement

sight,

warm-bloodedness

consciousness

sex

death

Wow.  That is one arbitrary list.   The gentleman/scholar missed clocks.  Biological fucking clocks.  What a poser.  What a hoser.  What a deadbeat dad.  What a holocaust.  

Maybe Brad and Angelina can compose a definitive list for us?

It just goes to show ya: Even “experts” have giant dicks draped across their membranes.

The fucking wench-bag wrote a book, too.

I’m sort of kidding.  Sort of not.  

And don’t get me wrong:  I loved Phil Lynnot.  Front man.  Thin Lizzy was shit without him.  Downey and Gorham always played too fast in concert, which I’m sure Phil hated, too.  Who did not enjoy the slow sweetnesses of Cowboy, the Boys and Jailbreak?

Phil went along with this genocide, just like IOZ and his current total fucking silence.

Do I look like I fucking care?

Two can play at that game, smart guy.

The monied interests will continue robbing us blind until we make them stop and pry our money from their cold, dead hands.

Charles Hugh Smith points out that since 2007, public debt has increased by more than $6 trillion, yet GDP has remained virtually flat.  (In constant 2005 dollars, there was zero growth.  Zero, as in 0.0.  Six trillion dollars plus is a lot of money for goose eggs.  That’s pretty much the same thing as borrowing $6 trillion plus and losing it.  No beanstalk, no golden goose, just losing it.  That $6 trillion lost in the past four years does not include the $2.3 trillion that the Pentagon lost, literally fucking lost on September 10, 2001, the day before 9/11.  But I digress.)

The filled black circles in the chart below (labeled “actual gdp”) shows our GDP “growth” as a function of our staggering increase in public debt between 2007 and 2011 (2011 GDP is projected based on our stupendous 1.8% growth rate in 2011 Q1, whereas 2011 public debt is based on the $1.6 trillion dollar increase in the deficit from 2010).  You’ll notice that public debt increases more than $6 trillion on the horizontal axis from left to right, whereas GDP does not move up noticeably on the vertical axis.  As the boys used to say in grade school, “She’s flat as a board.”

Ya gotta wonder, “What on god’s green earth happened to all that money?”  

No longer must you abandon your hopes and dreams to an impersonal curbside pick-up by the local scavenger service.  Get your personal Obama cremation urn now!

Seriously, you know the man will be the death of you.

There is nothing in this world that one cannot get more cheaply by using more oil to get it – whether by importing it, mechanizing its production, or using more energy to extract it.  This is not only true of industry, but of people as well: Americans moved to the suburbs because it was cheaper to drive farther than to work through the problems of urbanization, and one could get a larger house with a larger yard in the bargain. As long as it was cheaper to pay rent to Saudi Arabia for the oil, because that is what we are doing, than to pay rent to the government for a working city, people chose to pay rent to OPEC rather than taxes to the overnment. This ability of oil to be used in place of almost everything else, and not whether there is “enough” oil, is the special property that makes it the basic scarcity of the world economy.

                —  Stirling Newberry, American Thermidor

If you haven’t read it, American Thermidor (part 1, part 2, pdf) is well worth your time.  Personally, I think maybe Stirling goes too far in suggesting that the enoughness of oil is not its critical feature, but your mileage may vary.

Previously, I showed the linear relationship between global energy use and population growth, suggesting that a population crash is the predictable outcome of the coming decline in energy use following peak oil (year 2011), peak gas (year 2020), and peak coal (year 2030).

As if “We’re all gonna die!” weren’t bad enough, it gets worse:

We’re all gonna die flat-ass broke!