http://www.eviljohn.net Stream of Consciousness Mon, 25 May 2009 02:24:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw this on digg: http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=14 High taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that's old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way - ... http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=12 This has to stop, and I'm stopping it. I won't be the abused spouse anymore. I won't always be the one hoping for next year, living in some fantasy land that things are going to get better, despite essentially, 30 years of history telling me otherwise. I will not have ... http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=11 "Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. ... http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=10 http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=9 I've got ants at work. Little back bastards that crawl up and down my desk. And my arms. Imagine how creepy that feels on these fur covered appendages I call arms. Hell, I ran over like 3 of them with mouse the other day. I'm used to cleaning my mouse ... http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=8 ... and I'm in Austin :( http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=7 After the storms hit Wednesday night, the neighbor's fence decided it didn't want to be a fence anymore. It decided it wanted to be a kite, a career I might add, that didn't get off the ground.  Fortunately, my car was there to catch it before the untethered fence piece ... http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=6 So lately I've been watching a lot of Television. DirecTV rolled out a new satellite and I've been a abusing my DVR. One of the shows I've been watching is The Big Bang Theory. It's a show about a couple of smart geeks (and/or nerds) who wind up having a ... http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=5 Testing http://www.eviljohn.net/?p=3