I KNOW THE FEELING!

A HIGHLY SKILLED DEMONSTRATION OF SELFISHNESS

A rather sad comment on our society is that that many of it's members think supremely selfish and dangerous behavior such as this is "cool" and to be admired. In fact it simply shows an incredibly overgrown ego and a total disrespect for the safety of everyone else on the road.

A TRAGIC MORNING IN DALLAS

I am not much for politics and do not all that often that often voice my opinions [in public at least]. I have never voted, either back in the UK or since coming to the US, there has never really been anyone I would want to vote for and personally I think anyone who actually wants power has a fatal character flaw that makes them singularly unsuitable to hold power but that is just me. That said this morning I awoke to news of a tragedy in the city I call home, Dallas, and for once I feel obliged to opine.

There is rightful outrage across this country at what seem often times to be unjust shooting deaths of blacks by police; in this age of social media and instant coverage there have been many cases that seemingly cannot be argued, the cell phone footage is too damning, and where the actions of individual police officers were unjust even given the fact they have to make life and death decisions in an instant [and most of us, myself included, do not have, and never will have, the slightest idea of what it is like to try to do that].

I have never lost someone to violence so I guess many would say I do not know what I am talking about - perhaps they are right - but I would like to think that even in what must be the darkest moments of a life I would be able to recognize that randomly targeting a "group" for the ill deeds of an individual cannot be the right thing to do. Personally I do not see the sense in revenge on the individual either, those lost are not returned as a result of it so what is the gain, but at least I can see some sort of perverse logic there.

If someone on my street shoots a friend or family member would it make sense for me then to target everyone on my street? If a car hits my car and kills or injures a family member would I then be justified in seeking to take action against all car drivers; of course not, everyone would see that as insane.

There is good and bad in every group be those groups defined by geography, color, religion, race or anything else for that matter; to think otherwise is not to think at all.

"Stealing" from several different tweets this morning:

• All Cops are not bad
• All African Americans are not thugs
• All Hispanics are not illegal
• All Whites are not racist
• All Muslims are not terrorists
• Labels are for clothes not people

BREXIT - UK ON THE RUN

As a British ex-pat I have been tempted to weigh in on Brexit but so far I have resisted the temptation. That said I found this meme from express.co.uk particularly amusing.

NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER THE ODDS!

AN FDA APPROVED REMEDY FOR OUR OVER PC SOCIETY

Posted to the Facebook page Fsensitivity we have Growacet, a potential answer to our ever more PC society where the only minority that has no special rights is the majority and where democracy has been redefined to mean "minority rule"!

FROG JUMPING LAWS - WHAT DO OUR LAW MAKERS SMOKE?

Sometimes I wonder what our legislator's smoke! Take the California Fish & Game Code Sections 6880-6885 which pertain to "frog-jumping" contests.

First off it applies only to "frog-jumping" contests open to the public AND advertised or announced in a newspaper. So presumably a contest not advertised, or private, or both is an unregulated "free for all".

Then we get a section that seems to say if you seriously injure a frog in the process of taking a frog for a "frog jumping" contest then the assumption is you were not actually taking the frog for a "frog-jumping" contest!

Next we read that anyone can take as many frogs as they like for "frog-jumping" contests but if they die [or are killed] they must be destroyed and cannot be eaten!

And finally if you take frogs but do not keep them in a manner reasonable to preserve their life they are outside of these rules. By implication this means it is perfectly OK to keep them in a manner that is not reasonable to preserve their life, it simply means they are not covered by these regulations.

I will resist the "animal cruelty" aspect of this as the law appears to indicate cruelty is fine and simply removes the frogs from being covered by these rules and speak only to the fact that to me these seem like utterly banal and pointless regulations that some group of legislators one day unaccountably actually thought their crafting was a good use of people's time. I have to believe there are "bigger fish to fry" [or frogs].