I know that I have been slack and idle with the blogs and podcast of late, but I have a few excuses.

For a start it is summer. Now that means it is warmer, which in turn means I am not hurting so much, so I am in a good mood and want to get out more. It also means that it is summer break time, and this year Pearl is staying at our weekender for the summer and working for the first time. This in turn means I am now an only child at home and I am enjoying it greatly, small candlelit dinners with my honey, a few glasses of wine and then, well I will not go on as even though this is a very personal media it is not THAT personal. All in all I am having a thoroughly good time.

Now even though I am enjoying my life right now this does not mean the world has stopped and that there is not bad things happening, George Bush is still waging a holy war against the Islam Nation and is hell bent of killing as many of the cream of the youth of America as he can, while at the same time handing over to his rich crones the wealth of the nation, while all the time cutting as much of the money going to the poor of America as he can get away with, while at the same time trashing the bill of rights and the constitution, he is indeed a very busy man.

So, having said all that I have not been totally idle, I have finally settled on a design for the web site, www.swagy.com and am quite happy with it.

So until next time have a great time, and don’t forget to write.

Censorship and still more Censorship

Congress in it infinite wisdom has just increased the fines for broadcasters that send out on the airwaves indecent material. The fines have increased to around $350,000 an incident. Now I am heartily sick of these right wing religious nuts taking my freedoms hostage. This is just another cynical example of how this vocal minority of the community is imposing their warped views onto me. Now although I do not watch a great deal of television it is outrageous how they can dictate to me what is bad for me. Now I have a very well developed opposing thumb that is more than capable of either switching channels or turning off the TV set when I don’t want to watch something, this includes the inadvertent tuning into the moronic ravings of one of those TV evangelist nut jobs. Now if I can do it why cant they, are they afraid they might accidentally come across something they are told they should not watch and watch it anyway? Get a life you people. You are pathetic. Do your insane church thing and leave me alone, stop forcing your dubious values down my throat.

Evil genius

The NSA is apparently decided that given the sheer mass of information freely posted by the internet users on the web in self descriptions that they are going to design and implement a data base using this information to establish a type of six degree of separation database derived solely from information we have published freely on the web.How much is that and evil genius moment. Beware Big Brother is watching.

Mental Health

Listening to a podcast recently about mental health got me to thinking, now I know I am no expert, but, perhaps there is a correlation between the expected peak of population in the world. Apparently the world population is due to peak in about 2040 a mere 35 years from now. My theory is that we are not that far removed genetically from our roots as hunter gatherers and that we are genetically inclined to operate in small, tight knit family groups separated from other groups by some distances with space and time to devote to the mere survival of our families and not over concerned with larger interaction with mass numbers of people. Where conflict arose primarily over food recourses. With the increase in population the inevitability of industrialization that followed along with urbanization have, I believe created pressures on us as humans that we have not been equipped to handle. Hence the ever increasing out of control mental illness, which it follows, is a symptom of population pressure. The worry of impending pandemics, natural disasters and wars and rumors of wars cannot help the situation. Maybe we are heading for a major crash of human culture, a reversion to the simple times genetically encoded into us may just be what the doctor orders, the doctor being the planet that is becoming sick from our appetites as well.

Censorship and still more Censorship

Congress in it infinite wisdom has just increased the fines for broadcasters that send out on the airwaves indecent material. The fines have increased to around $350,000 an incident.
Now I am heartily sick of these right wing religious nuts taking my freedoms hostage. This is just another cynical example of how this vocal minority of the community is imposing their warped views onto me.
Now although I do not watch a great deal of television it is outrageous how they can dictate to me what is bad for me. Now I have a very well developed opposing thumb that is more than capable of either switching channels or turning off the TV set when I don’t want to watch something, this includes the inadvertent tuning into the moronic ravings of one of those TV evangelist nut jobs.
Now if I can do it why cant they, are they afraid they might accidentally come across something they are told they should not watch and watch it anyway?
Get a life you people.
You are pathetic.
Do your insane church thing and leave me alone, stop forcing your dubious values down my throat.

Swag man on the Web

Evil genius

The NSA is apparently decided that given the sheer mass of information freely posted by the internet users on the web in self descriptions that they are going to design and implement a data base using this information to establish a type of six degree of separation database derived solely from information we have published freely on the web.How much is that and evil genius moment. Beware Big Brother is watching.

Swagy on the Web

Mental Health

Listening to a podcast recently about mental health got me to thinking, now I know I am no expert, but, perhaps there is a correlation between the expected peak of population in the world. Apparently the world population is due to peak in about 2040 a mere 35 years from now. My theory is that we are not that far removed genetically from our roots as hunter gatherers and that we are genetically inclined to operate in small, tight knit family groups separated from other groups by some distances with space and time to devote to the mere survival of our families and not over concerned with larger interaction with mass numbers of people. Where conflict arose primarily over food recourses. With the increase in population the inevitability of industrialization that followed along with urbanization have, I believe created pressures on us as humans that we have not been equipped to handle. Hence the ever increasing out of control mental illness, which it follows, is a symptom of population pressure. The worry of impending pandemics, natural disasters and wars and rumors of wars cannot help the situation. Maybe we are heading for a major crash of human culture, a reversion to the simple times genetically encoded into us may just be what the doctor orders, the doctor being the planet that is becoming sick from our appetites as well.

Swagy on the Web