St. Patrick & the snakes

As the lads and lasses celebrate the life of a Romano-British priest by getting ass over ankles drunk, let's take a look at Paddy, and the snakes.

According to the generally accepted legend, Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland. Okay, for starters, there is no evidence that there were ever any snakes in Ireland. Worms, yup, and they're still there, a lizard or two, but no snakes.

Ever.

Snakes were, however, a symbol of the druids. So, maybe, what the annual bacchanalia and brawlfest celebrates is driving the druids out of Ireland. Because we can't have any competition for the adoration of the people, now can we?

So, if you'll excuse me, I'll forgo wearing green.

Though I will have a (non-green) beer.

Glenn Beck:Raging fucktard or Divine PR hack?

So, sez His Beckness, King of What the Fuckness, the events in Japan, from earthquake through on to nuclear plant explosions are a message from God....or not...but probably are.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/03/14/2011-03-14_glenn_beck_japan_earthquake_could_be_message_from_god_to_follow_the_ten_commandm.html

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103140010

I'm guessing Glenn can find Divine purpose in a particularly satisfying bowel movement, so the Earthquake/tsunami/volcano/stewing nuclear disaster exacta must've seemed like a foregone "God's got something to say" hint and a half.

Beck goes to "obey the Ten Commandments" eventually, but, given some of Prof. Beck's chalk board logic  gymnastics (and I didn't realize how flexible logic could be), I have to ask if he got the message right.

Maybe Glenn misread the memo.

Maybe the message was, "Stop ripping apart the world for cheap energy!!!!!!! You've got wind, solar, geo thermal, wave motion!!!!! Fuck OPEC, fuck nukes!!!!!!"

Maybe the message was, "OK, I'm gonna screw with another country, this one's got a healthier set up than the one I curb stomped last year, but you seem to have forgotten about them, so let's really smack 'em around."

Could be,  "You think a shaky economy's bad? Check this out, bitches!!!!"

Hell bells, maybe it was "Sell Apple stock at $350.00".

Or, and here's one. Maybe there's no God, and some tectonic plates snapped, one of them dropped, so huge amounts of ocean water were displaced, causing a tsunami. The resulting quakes damaged nuclear power plants, the sea water flooded the nuclear plant diesel powered emergency cooling pumps, and now we got a problem, as well as an opportunity to re examine our confidence in the safety of nuclear power.












Naaaah....God was telling Beck to put $50 on Grandpa's Hemorrhoid in the fifth to win at Santa Anita.

My feelings about WI Gov. Scott Walker......

Fuck you

Just for the record, mon colonel, the people do not, in fact, love you.


Just say'n.