Yet Another Blatantly Dishonest Homosexual Study.

Okay, this is a bit long. But if you can make it about halfway through I promise you’ll be shocked, amazed and probably a bit disgusted as well. I’m going to show you something that will horrify you. Especially if you take such things as peer-reviewed studies and whatnot seriously. If you expect them to be honest, objective and reasonable.

I’m going to show that they aren’t always. And when that happens, that no one seems to care.

Just a couple or three days ago I got into a little argument about the mortality rates of homosexuals over on TOL. The thread actually started off with something else. I’m pretty sure it was whether Christians should denounce homosexual behavior or not…or something along those lines. So naturally one of the regulars popped up with, “Why?! What’s wrong with being gay?!”

You can practically connect the dots from there. You come back with what should be obvious, that it’s destructive and that God forbids it. Now since an unbeliever doesn’t care whether or not God forbids anything in particular, that leaves the idea that it’s destructive as the only thing they’ll find worthy even of consideration. So you make that argument. And they come back that there’s no evidence of that whatsoever. Or, more often, that all the multitude of studies that make that claim are all biased and done by Christians and/or conservative organizations.

Because, you know, Christians and conservatives (or worse, conservative Christians!) are automatically considered biased. Apparently we’re incapable of coming to any conclusion objectively at all.

How that works exactly without being true for the other side of the debate as well continues to mystify me. But hey, whether it’s completely irrational or not doesn’t matter. That’s the firm, fixed delusion of just about everyone on the other side of the issue and there’s just no getting around it.

So I ended up asking the guy to respond to things like…is domestic abuse more prevalent in homosexual relationships? Is drug abuse more prevalent among homosexuals than heterosexuals? What is the lifespan of the average homosexual compared to a heterosexual?

Basically asking how he could claim something that clearly is destructive is somehow…not.

He decided go look for the stats himself and come back to refute my statement. And I figure that’s great, rather than post what I have and go through all that “Nuh uh! That’s biased!” mess we‘ll work with whatever he provides instead. I figured at the very least he’d find those were the only stats out there and they showed that homosexuals do indeed have a dramatically higher mortality rate than heterosexuals. At the absolute very least I hoped he would wonder why, if these stats were so “biased” and unreliable, no one on his side had ever bothered to do a “proper” study and come up with something to discount them with.

So he came back with…exactly the stats I’d expected. Because there’s nothing else out there. Those stats have yet to be effectively refuted because that’s hard to do with an actual honest study. Because an actual honest study will reflect that homos have a dramatically higher mortality rate.

Because they do. I mean, duh.

Now, that should have been it. We started arguing from the basis of those stats he had provided and the debate should have went on from there.
But something completely startling happened. Someone butted in trying to make the point that I was wrong to use those stats. Because they’re biased and unreliable.

Yeah, I know. What an idjit, right?

But the startling part here is that he ended up referencing a study he’d gone and dug up in an effort to refute those “biased” and unreliable stats.
The ones showing that homosexuals have a drastically increased mortality rate over heterosexuals. And of course, as I already warned you, the study did indeed clearly show that homosexuals have a dramatically higher mortality rate than heterosexuals.

But the thing that absolutely shocked and amazed me…and I promise it will shock and amaze you, too…is that the study very clearly pretends the opposite! In fact, though it completely supports the notion that homosexuals have a dramatically higher mortality rate than heterosexuals, it flat out stats that it has p roven the opposite! Yet the study clearly and irrefutably proves that homosexuals have a dramatically higher mortality rate!

The thing that absolutely blows my mind is…this guy was completely unaware of that! And you know why? Because the last line of the study’s conclusion states, “Although further study is needed, the claims of drastically increased overall mortality in gay men and lesbians appear unjustified.”

Yes, because the given conclusion is one he expected he simply accepts that this is what the study proves. He even argued that point…even after I pointed out that the study itself proves exactly the opposite! The conclusion is completely and totally bogus! And he still accepted it even after that was pointed out!

Here’s the study we’re talking about here. I’ll copy it here though as well and then point out what these folks have done. You’ll be horrified.

Frisch M, Brønnum-Hansen H. Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. mfr@ssi.dk
OBJECTIVES: We studied overall mortality in a demographically defined, complete cohort of gay men and lesbians to address recent claims of markedly shorter life spans among homosexual persons. METHODS: We calculated standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) starting 1 year after the date of same-sex marriage for 4914 men and 3419 women in Denmark who married a same-sex partner between 1989 and 2004. RESULTS: Mortality was markedly increased in the first decade after same-sex marriage for men who married between 1989 and 1995 (SMR=2.25; 95% confidence interval [CI]=2.01, 2.50), but much less so for men who married after 1995, when efficient HIV/AIDS therapies were available (SMR=1.33; 95% CI=1.04, 1.68). For women who married their same-sex partner between 1989 and 2004, mortality was 34% higher than was mortality in the general female population (SMR=1.34; 95% CI=1.09, 1.63). For women, and for men marrying after 1995, the significant excess mortality was limited to the period 1 to 3 years after the marriage. CONCLUSIONS: Despite recent marked reduction in mortality among gay men, Danish men and women in same-sex marriages still have mortality rates that exceed those of the general population. The excess mortality is restricted to the first few years after a marriage, presumably reflecting preexisting illness at the time of marriage. Although further study is needed, the claims of drastically increased overall mortality in gay men and lesbians appear unjustified.

Now, let’s take out a few portions here and focus on them. Don’t worry, we still have the main body above so you don’t have to worry that I’m playing some kind of game here. Take a look at what they say.

“We calculated standardized mortality ratios (SMRs)”

Right. Okay, so they determine that homosexuals have a higher mortality rate during the first five or ten years of marriage by comparing mortality rates for them to some other group. It doesn’t say what group exactly here, but it does later…

“For women…mortality was 34% higher than was mortality in the general female population (SMR=1.34) “

There we go. Now we can see the standardized mortality ratio they’re using compares the mortality rates of married homosexuals to those of the remaining population of the same gender. So, in doing so, they find that during the first few years of marriage female homosexuals have a much, much higher mortality rate. Same is true for men.

“…Mortality was markedly increased in the first decade…for men… (SMR=2.25)”

We even see the mortality drop to roughly that of women once better AIDS treatments become available around 1995.

“…less so for men…after 1995…(SMR=1.33)”

So in the end we have female homosexuals with a mortality rate 34% higher than the rest of the female population and male homosexuals with a mortality rate 33% higher than the rest of the male population.

Now, this leaves you with only two options.

1) You can maintain your sanity and admit that these homosexuals enter into those marriages with a pre-existing mortality rate 33-34% higher than the rest of the population.

2) You can put on the air of utter irrationality and pretend that getting married somehow drops a 33-34% hike in mortality rates on homosexuals out of the blue. For no apparent reason.

Quite obviously and clearly, this mortality rate is pre-existing. Which is to say that homosexuals who marry already have a 33-34% higher mortality rate than the rest of the population.

So…how for the love of God’s green apples do these people get away with their conclusion?

“CONCLUSIONS:…Danish men and women in same-sex marriages still have mortality rates that exceed those of the general population. The excess mortality is …presumably reflecting preexisting illness at the time of marriage.”

Yeah, that makes sense. That’s exactly what the study shows…except…whoa, wait. There’s one more line left in that last Conclusion. The last line…

“ Although further study is needed, the claims of drastically increased overall mortality in gay men and lesbians appear unjustified.”

WHAT?! How can they possibly say that?! Every single thing in the study up to this exact point, the very last line of the darned thing, firmly establishes exactly the opposite!

How the hell did they come to that conclusion?!

I’m sorry, folks. I’m left with no reasonable alternative here but to assume they’re flat out lying. They can’t possibly be smart enough to actually conduct the study in the first place and yet dumb enough not to understand what they’re study proves! They’re blatantly lying!

And why? So idiots like the guy that tossed this thing at me, believing it actually proved homosexuals don’t have a higher mortality rate, would buy it! How many folks read the last line of this thing, shrug and say, “Okay, that’s proven.” Never bothering to read the thing?

And the folks who’s job it is to actually read it? And all the folks who actually take such things seriously and objectively evaluate these things?

Well, that’s the real kicker, innit? Where are they? Why hasn’t anyone cried foul here? How’d they submit this in the first place without someone pointing out the ridiculous conclusion? How is it that it’s still gone unnoticed?

Update to my post on ARTL’s “World’s Largest Protest Sign”

A visitor pointed out that the links to the pics of ARTL’s protest sign at the Democratic National Convention last year had since gone dead. Naturally, I was mortified. So I tracked down the original pics and a few others as well, then updated the post.

Here’s the linky:  http://contrarymary.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/worlds-largest-protest-sign/

I realized I neglected to provide the link to ARTL’s site as well, so here it is: http://artlaction.com/release/20081111/artl-unfurls-worlds-largest-protest-sign

The Laws of Stupidity

Stumbled across this while surfing dah interwebz. Found it interesting and thought you’d enjoy it. I have no idea who wrote it so you’ll have to Google that yerself.

General Rules of Stupidity

1. The Law of the Conservation of Stupidity
Pure stupidity cannot be destroyed, merely reassembled into various arrangements of stupidity quanta.

2. The Law of Stupidity Reaction
For every Stupid Action – There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction. This reaction comes from any nonstupid quanta in the vicinity.

3. The law of Stupidity and Momentum.
Once a stupidity is acted upon it takes a greater, not equal force to stop it. An equal or lesser opposition will only strengthen the stupidity.

Rules of Stupidity Interaction

4. The Law of Stupidity Harmonization
Stupidity Quanta, when assembled in groups of quanta, are likely to harmonize. They will either: all be stupid or all not be stupid.

5. The Law of Stupidity Aggregation
The greater the cluster of Stupidity Quanta, the greater the probability of a predominance of Stupidity. See also the ‘Law of Stupidity Squared’ below.

6. Law of Stupidity Squared
Clustered Stupidity grows in a direct Squared relationship to the number of Stupidity Quanta in the cluster, such that:
S ~ s^2
Where S = the Clusters Stupidity and s is the average stupidity of the cluster’s quanta.

7. The Law of Negatively Proportional Stupidity
The ‘average’ stupidity of a Stupidity Cluster is NOT the aggregate stupidity of that cluster’s members divided by the number of members. Rather, it is the GREATEST stupidity of the members multiplied by the number of members.

8. The General Law of Stupidity Subclusters
In a large cluster of Stupidity Quanta the major cluster may consist of several subclusters, each of which may be either stupid and not stupid. These subclusters will independently obey all other Rules of Stupidity Interaction.

9. The Law of Stupidity Subclusters Observation
When one views a major cluster from the outside, the individual subclusters will be invisible, and the major cluster will seem to take on the stupidity/nonstupidity of the most visible subcluster. If several subclusters are visible enough to be noticed by the observer, the major cluster will seem to split into several smaller clusters, one for each of the visible subclusters.

Are people getting stupider? Or is it just me?

Haven’t actually ranted in a while. And I’m feeling intolerant today. So let’s do that…

Are people just getting stupider or is just that I’m getting older?

I’m coming up on my thirties now and it seems like every day that goes by I catch myself saying something you’d normally find as a cliché popping out of the mouth of some old person on television. I really wouldn’t be surprised to catch myself rolling my eyes and muttering, “These kids today…”

Come to think of it…

And I don’t mean this is some condescending way. I don’t feel especially superior in asking this question. I’m actually serious. And I’m kinda getting worried. I don’t really want to believe that people are mysteriously getting stupider all around me but I can’t find any reason not to believe it. As far fetched as it might appear to be at first blush, the evidence just keeps mounting up.

I asked the bagger at my local grocery store if he would put the cans of fruit in a separate bag from the cans of vegetables. I might as well have bonked him on the forehead with a shovel.

“Uh…”
“Because the fruit isn’t for me. I’m buying it for my neighbor.”
“…”
“That way I can just drop the cans of fruit off with them without having to dig for it.”
“I…uh…”
“Here. These four cans. These right here. Just put them in their own little bag, you know?”
“You want the bread in a separate bag?”
“The…huh? No, just the fruit.”
“The cans of fruit?”
“Well…yeah. These right here. These four cans of fruit. Put these in their own bag with nothing else.”
“What about the bread?”
“Who said anything about the bread? Put these cans of fruit in their own…Look, can you just give me a bag? I’ll bag it myself.”
“I can do it.”
“Are you sure?”
<two minutes later>
“You want me to carry these for you?”
“No. Thanks.”

And how often to baggers offer to carry your groceries out for you? Like, never. But I had to pass because the idea actually caused me anxiety.

Same grocery store, a couple of weeks ago.
To the cashier: “Can you give me eight quarters with that?”
“Huh?”
“Eight quarters. I’m going to buy some of those little tattoo things from the gumball machines over there.”
“You want quarters?”
“Yeah. Oh. And some dimes.”
“Uh…okay, hold on….You want a dollah werf of dimes?”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
“Hold on. I’m out of dimes.”
“Well, I just need a couple. Whatever.”
Cashier to a neighboring cashier: “You gotta rolla dimes?”
Me again: “No, hold up. I just need two. Make whatever change you like.”
“I only got two dimes.”
“Well…that’s how many I need.”
“Hold on…how many quarters you want?”
“Eight. Eight quarters and two dimes.”
“Hold on…”
<cash register goes haywire>
*Sigh*
“Hold on… <to another cashier> Call Jim.”
Other cashier: “Huh?”
“Call Jim.”
<five minutes later>
“How many quarters you wanted?”
“None. No quarters. I don’t want any quarters at all. In fact, I want you to be absolutely certain there are no quarters whatsoever in my change.”
“Huh?”
“I’ve changed my mind. I just want to leave.”
Cashier, snidely: “Well, so-rry.”

There’s a high school kid that came by the other day, offering to cut my lawn. He was dragging an old lawn mower behind him and everything. I couldn’t believe it. So I asked him if he’s actually making any money doing that. He said yes. He’s being doing this all week and had cut something like twenty yards.
It was so quant I just had to go with it. He wanted fifty bucks for my front yard.

“Hold on. How much gas will you use up cutting this yard, do you think?”
“I dunno. A can I guess.”
“And how much does a can of gas run you?”
“I dunno. Ten bucks.”
“So you’re asking forty bucks to cut this yard?”
“Huh? No, fifty.”
“No, I mean you’re wanting forty bucks profit for cutting this yard.”
“Oh, I dunno if I can do it for forty.”
“No. I mean…wait, you know what “profit’ means, right? I pay you fifty, you spend ten of it on the gasoline and you clear forty bucks…profit. See?”
“Yeah but I gotta pay for the gas.”
“Well…right. That’s what I just said. So out of that fifty you really only clear forty of it. So you’re making forty bucks in profit.”
“Huh?”
“What I’m trying to get at is whether this yard is worth forty bucks clear profit. It really isn’t that big, I don’t think. My back yard, now that’s a different story.”
“Well, I’m just…you know…I’m charging fifty bucks…you know, to cut yards.”
“You mean you aren’t haggling or anything? Just charging everyone fifty bucks each?”
“Uh huh.”
“And a lot of folks have passed, I take it?”
“Huh?”
“Most people say, ‘No, thanks.’ Right?”
“Uh huh.”
“Well, I bet if you went down on your price a little for the smaller yards…like that one over there…did they turn you down?”
“Yeah, said she couldn’t afford it.”
“I bet she would have paid you twenty-five or thirty. It’s a teeny yard. You could have knocked that one out in fifteen minutes. That’s like getting paid a hundred bucks an hour, you shouldn’t have passed that up insisting on fifty.”
“A hundred bucks?”
“Well, no. Because it would have only taken maybe fifteen minutes. But you get the point, right?”
“Huh?”
“…Never mind. I’ll pay you forty to this yard. But I can’t pay any more than that.”
“Oh, I dunno. I’m charging fifty.”
“Okay, no thanks. Have a nice day.”

I don’t mean unintelligent when I say “stupid“. I mean stupid. They don’t know how to think.
Seriously. Is there something in the water maybe? Were people always this stupid and I just didn’t notice? Is there some aspect of approaching middle age that causes you to recognize the stupid more readily?

Or maybe I’m just getting more intolerant of stupid as I age? Is that normal?

Oh, God. What am I going to be like when I actually get middle-aged?

You know, it’s not like I claim to be a rocket scientist or anything. I know full well I’m not the brightest star in the sky here. In fact, I find I expect people to be generally as smart or smarter than me. I just know in my bones that’s how it should be. I mean, I didn’t finish high school and my grades were crap when I did go. What little I do know today I learned for the most part on my own. So I kinda expect all these people who’ve actually been formally educated to know more than me. I should be learning things just from interacting casually with them.
And yet I can’t help but notice when there are five or six blatantly misspelled words per paragraph on government websites…such as the Department of Education’s website for my state…or that they misspelled both “employment” and “opportunity” on the billboard at the, for crying out loud, unemployment office here in town. Or that the menus at both my favorite restaurants in town have misspelled the name of dishes they serve…on menus that were obvious printed at, dare I point out, a printing shop somewhere. I’m sorry but…you can’t spell “crab delight”? You serve it. And whoever printed these very nice menus of yours, these folks who make a living printing words…didn’t catch that? Not even Hunan Beef? Because I’m pretty sure you’re not serving Human Beef today.
I asked the waitress once how much those fancy menus had cost to print up. I can’t say how much she estimated but I remember she went on and on about it. It was fairly expensive as I recall. So I pointed out the typos and misspellings. She argued that “delite” was spelled correctly, at first. I’m still not sure I convinced her it wasn’t.

And I know this all sounds crotchety. Like I’m just looking for something to bitch about. But that’s really not it. Honestly.
It’s scary, a little. Because these people vote. And they sit on juries. These folks make big decisions.

And they’re stupid.

Bible funnies. Well, funny to me anywayz.

I have a very odd sense of humor sometimes, so I can’t at all guarantee that any of this will strike anyone else as humorous.
And I cheated and had to look most of these up (can’t just pull ‘em outta my ear like some folks).

But, still…

The great state of Alabama is mentioned in the bible…

Ezekiel 20:29 (New King James Version)
29 Then I said to them, ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’

There have apparently always been bad drivers…

2 Kings 9:20 (New King James Version)
20 So the watchman reported, saying, “He went up to them and is not coming back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously!”

Maybe it wasn’t Nixon after all?

Nehemiah 8:1 (New King James Version)
1 Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate…

Also…

Nimrod

…’nuff said.

When I challenged someone one to prove their assertion that the bible was misogynistic one of the verses they proved was this one:
Proverbs 27:15-16 (New King James Version)
15 A continual dripping on a very rainy day
And a contentious woman are alike;
16 Whoever restrains her restrains the wind,
And grasps oil with his right hand.

Not sure I can explain why seeing her jut out her jaw and look down her nose at that one just struck me as high-larious.

Numbers 11:18-23 (New King James Version)
18 Then you shall say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. 19 You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the LORD who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?”’”
21 And Moses said, “The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.’ 22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?”
23 And the LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not.”

Every time I read that one I like every kid must feel watching their sibling or a fellow student get in trouble instead of them. You want to laugh…but you just know you’ll get it next if you do.

And another one I always feel terrible about trying not to snicker over. Really, I suppose I should just take it as a natural reminder that I’m just way too mean and start working on that…

Acts 20:9 (New King James Version)
9 And in a window sat a certain young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep; and as Paul continued speaking, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

Really. I’m a terrible person. I admit it.
Plus, I’m probably going to meet this guy in heaven. And he’s going to know I laughed at his misfortune like a dozen times.
That’s gonna suck.

Balaam arguing with his donkey (Numbers 22:21-29). His talking donkey. Seriously, who didn’t at least chuff the first time they read that one. Dude! Donkey just talked.

Deuteronomy 14:21 (New King James Version)
21 “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God.

Okay. Wow.

1 Samuel 18:25-27 (New King James Version)
25 Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the days had not expired; 27 therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

And we complain about waterboarding.

Judges 3:20-22 (New King James Version)
20 So Ehud came to him (now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamber). Then Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” So he arose from his seat. 21 Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. 22 Even the hilt went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly; and his entrails came out.

And again. Seriously. I’d rather be waterboarding.

Joshua 13:1 (New King James Version)
1 Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the LORD said to him: “You are old, advanced in years…

Dunno. Funny to me.

Genesis 1 (New King James Version)
Day One: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…And God saw the light, that it was good.
Day Two: Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Day Three: Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”…And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind…And God saw that it was good.
Day Four: Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night…And God saw that it was good.
Day Five: Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”…And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind…And God saw that it was good.
Day Six: Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good…

So, what was wrong with Day Two? It wasn’t good?
Of course, if my basic math is right…it was a Monday…

And my favorite:

Judges 7:13 (New King James Version)
And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”

Heh. God smacked you with a giant loaf of bread, dude.

Blippin’ the radar

You may have noticed my last two posts were middling sized and both devoted to gaming. And that I haven’t posted anything but a couple of comments since February 25th.

Feeling the need to explain myself, I have to admit I’ve been distracted by responsibilities here in the physical world. Shameful, yes, I know. But can’t be helped.
As it happens I’ll be picking up the mantle of GM again in about a week and I’ve been working hard in my spare time to sorta catch up with all that. I’m rather proud of my accomplishments in that time, really. So I can only be just so ashamed that I’ve let the blog sit on the backburner and simmer all this time.

In point of fact, we had our last session of our current campaign today. We played the big heroes quite well, I think. Wrapping up that campaign, which my husband began while I was away and ran to it’s end today, that opens up next Saturday for me to pick up the slack and give him a break.

And, honestly, I’m so very looking forward to it. Got my next session all written up, including the little side show session. I even took advantage of the momentum I’ve gathered during the week to scribble a whole other adventure for the Serenity system and written up rough drafts for two more. And the barebones of the setting for the campaign. And converted the characters for that campaign over to the Cortex Core rules. And made a twenty page or so long draft of about 60 or so other adventure ideas that I’ll probably only get around to writing up maybe 10 of.

I mean seriously. I don’t even do drugs anymore. But when I get on a tear I gotta go until I hit the wall.

Which is, by way of explanation, why I haven’t had so much as a drop left for the blog.

Sorry folks. But as soon as my muse catches her breath I’ll slap something good up here.

In the meantime, I’ll post a little something right after this that I scribbled up out of the blue for no reason other than it tickled my fancy to do so at the time. Of course, I’ll be cheating a little bit when I do since I wrote this up somewhere else and posted it there first. But you should already know I’m flaky that way here in Rantazia.