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Peak Of The Week
Just another busy Wednesday with a mountain of unfinished work ahead of me. What else is new?
The Future Is Now
I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. ~Ray Bradbury
And yet here we are…
I joined the USAF to help stop the advance of communism. Back in my younger days, it certainly seemed as if we’d succeeded.
The Soviet Union collapsed. The ChiComms became pretend capitalists (essentially fascist).
The world was changing, seemingly for the better.
Unfortunately, we didn’t consider the Fifth Columnists among us.
I mean, who would? They’re so fucking ridiculous.
All of their little pet projects that are such unconscionable bullshit, the prattling of brain-damaged children.
Yet, here we are.
All of their perverse social agendas are being enacted against those of us with a modicum of common sense.
The result? Utterly predictable.
They speak of lofty goals as they try to turn us into Venezuela North.
Fuck ’em. They’ve got to pay the same insane prices for gas as the rest of us. Assholes.
I vacillate between rage and despair.
All the while, I’ve got a crap-ton of work to do and none of it is really progressing.
The writing? Feh…
If I actually have a spare moment to even think about writing, I haven’t got the energy or mental capacity to even try.
I’m worn down and the perpetual avalanche of idiocy perpetrated by the insidious Left just makes it that much worse.
A Simpler Age?
New York 1911 (New Version) in Color
[60fps, Remastered] w/added sound
Apparently, Ford produced 34,858 Model T’s for the 1911 model year. Roughly 35K cars for about 92 million Americans.
True, Ford’s assembly line concept and successful marketing led to widespread adoption of the motor vehicle in this country.
What’s also true, as you can see in the video above, is that horse-drawn vehicles remained for quite some time.
In 2021, Tesla delivered 936,000 vehicles for about 320 million Americans. And yet, the jackasses who have wrested control of our country are doing their level best to end the internal combustion economy.
They want to stop everything and make everyone switch to electric vehicles rather than letting natural marketplace competition determine the actual winner.
Electric cars sound cool and futuristic but until they can charge as quickly as we can top off a tank of gas, they’re just a novelty and kind of an inconvenience.
The Biden Adminstration is bragging that you won’t have to pay so much at the pump with an electric car BUT they neglect to mention what it’s going to do to your electric bill to charge a car for 4-10 hours.
As I said above, fuck ’em.
People didn’t keep trotting around in horse-drawn vehicles for decades after Ford rolled out the Model T because they were Luddites. They did it because cars and trucks were still a novelty. They didn’t have the infrastructure in place to service them everywhere as we do today.
You don’t kill a proven technology to force people into a half-baked novelty with no infrastructure unless you’re a complete asshole. You let the market decide.
When there’s parity between electric cars and gasoline powered cars in terms of cost, top off time and safety, the market will decide. Until then, the commies who have infiltrated our government can take their green policy and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Boy, I can’t wait until the Demonrats lose their ill-gotten majority…
Discovery Writer
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
As much as I’d love to be one of these guys who plans everything out to the Nth degree, that’s not how I operate.
I start with a blank page and a vague idea of where I think the story is going and watch what develops.
That has caused me a lot of issues trying to get The Sentinels up and running.
Add to that the fact that I’m too tired to think straight and too broke to buy the batch of ISBNs I’ll need to run my publishing company, you’ll find I’m getting nothing done on the fiction front either.
It’s all rather disheartening.
Waiting to see how the tax return works out. Apparently, I’m in the queue. It had better damn well be worth the wait…
That’s all I’ve got. It’s a wonder I even managed to get this much done. Between the ever-growing workload and trying to housebreak a puppy, I’m accomplishing basically nothing right now. I hope you’re doing better.