Alabama executes man for 30-year old murder conviction

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A particularly egregious shortcoming of our justice system is the sheer length of time that elapses between convictions and executions. This should have been at most 3 months, not 3 decades.

Is lovely city lighting really extinct?

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It’s very painful to consider the possibility that beautiful public lighting is really dead forever. LED, the fast food of the optic market, has replaced every sodium vapor bulb in almost every town in America. Just look at the picture below. The experience of driving down a dreamy stretch at midnight, while the beautiful gargantuan city looms in the distance, is simply gone. The change is so criminally hideous that one struggles to articulate the feeling of futile frustration. A simple calculation of cost was made by some faceless troglodyte, and this wonderous dreamscape that we created by accident, civilization by sodium vapor bulb, was trashed without a second thought.

One good example of this is the vintage-style streetlamp a few blocks down. For years this lamp cast its amber glow on its surroundings, making the night charming. It was obvious the moment the bulb was changed to LED. The glare of it caught your eye, the way a distant welding arc does. The intensity of its cold white light has murdered the charm of the evening. The night has been transformed into a hospital room.

What could possibly be done? The type of person making the decision to utilize these bulbs is impervious to appeals to beauty or charm. For some reason every city government hires a variation of the same person who is responsible for making the night grotesque. Not all LED bulbs are created equal.  Some mimic, albeit poorly, the ambient charm of sodium vapor bulbs. Could a city government be talked into using a “warmer” bulb? Why not place blue-blocking filters over the existing bulbs? Is this really a concern of such a small minority that a city government couldn’t be bothered with it? I refuse to believe it.

Tommy Robinson, get off your knees

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This is pathetic. No amount of groveling will satiate Israel, so why do it? Robinson is being used, and will be discarded when his usefulness runs dry.

2023 Nashville shooter bodycam

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Flashback to the most terrifying bodycam footage I’ve ever seen. The entire thing is like out of a nightmare: the calm urgency of officer Engelbeck, the paralyzing effect of the school’s siren, the dark hallways and heavy breathing as the police clear each room. Memory-holed is the familiar pattern behavior of Audrey Hale as she shot out the glass door and stalked the hallways with an almost professional demeanor.

The real meaning of “No Kings”

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These people appear to be the average leftwing activist today. No more moderation, no more civilized disagreeement, only total violent opposition to anyone they disagree with politically.

Do these protestors have to worry about being attacked and assaulted by organized, black-clad thugs? If Trump supporters marched like this, they would be attacked relentlessly and mercilessly. And these current protestors would be the instigators of the violence. This is Bolshevism currently spooling up, organizing, gaining strength. They don’t care about Constitutional limitations, they are in fact angry that the limitations of law and order are being reimposed.

This isn’t mere political disagreement. One side wishes death, injury, or the total destruction of the their lives, upon their political opponents, and they gleefully declare it to the world. How much longer can this go on before a powder keg explosion?

National divorce appears more reasonable every day. Give them their own country, and we get ours, and we all live in separate peace. But would that even work? Do these people even want peace?

Where is our sovereign?

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In an impotent burst of geriatric seething, “No Kings Day” has come and gone. I have no idea what they’re truly protesting, and I’m sure even they don’t know. No kings? Or just their king? Biden might not have been a king, but he certainly was a tyrant. Or rather, his string-pullers, auto-pen operators, and pharmacologists were. “No Kings” isn’t some principled homage to the founding of America. They don’t care about Constitutional limitations on power, they only care about who wields it. It’s a tantrum thrown by what appears to be mostly white Americans in their 60s and 70s over…deportations?

Weren’t these the same Boomers pushing endless lockdowns just a few years ago, utterly destroying the lives of the young so that they might feel a phony sense of safety? But we know what the lockdowns really were: the tyrannical persecution of the young, happy and content, by miserable retirees. The middle aged and elderly were the driving force behind lockdowns, mask mandates, and the various strictures on the behavior of normal Americans who didn’t live in hypochondriac terror over a mild virus.

The miserable retirees today protested against “kings”, but maybe a king is just what is needed. Democracy and “voting”, on every single issue, has brought us to the brink of utter ruin. We should give more thought to the fundamental truth that, given the choice, a population will invariably vote itself into slavery if promised an easy and carefree life. They will vote for their interests, even if it means parasitically siphoning the life force of other groups, notably the young. This is vampirism via political voodoo, and it has gone on long enough.

The adults have not been in charge for many years, and because of that, a sort of arrested development has occurred among the voting public. Voters act like spoiled children when they don’t get what they feel entitled to. So they agitate, descend into extremism, and either support political violence or engage in it.

Our current system of government appears designed to accomplish absolutely nothing other than a maintenance of the status quo. A President attempts to do something, a judge stops him. The House attempts to do something, the Senate stops them, and vice versa. This will go on until we’re bankrupt or bombed out of existence. Our current system of government will not change, and it appears totally impossible to change it from the inside, through “voting”.

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Two things are disturbing: his inability to answer a slam-dunk question, and his reflexive phone check. Both Israel and his device own him.