Retards for Palin

Do I really need to say anything about this? Probably not. But I will anyway. Is there any better way to illustrate that you're a fanatic that stripping half nude and painting your body as a banner for your cause? Well, you could burn a symbol of your enemy...but let's not got there. Need I say that the more fanatical someone is the less rational he/she is likely being about his/her cause? Ugh. The pic comes from here. It's from an article about "Palin Dudes," who dole out the idiotic quotes as quick as they make complete tools of themselves: "You rock me out, Sarah." Way, Dude! Rockenroll! One dude "wore a 'Proud to be voting for a hot chick' button," as if that's a good reason to vote for someone and that he should be proud of thinking with the little head. "Who can't trust a mother?" Maybe a kid whose been drowned by one or a husband who had one sleep around on him or hide her pregnancy from him. What kind of dumbass would stereotype someone into being trustworthy? She's a politician, dipshit. "Marry me, Sarah." You get the picture.

The article then goes in an entirely different direction describing a segment of the men who have come to distrust men and deeply want female leadership, but not just any female leadership, her female leadership. They see her as a woman as a woman should be--a wife and a mother, a woman who would marry a man like them. They don't want an intellectual woman or a woman who has had to masculate herself in order to climb the political ladder. They don't want a woman who stresses stereotypically feminine issues like education. Because she likes hunting and generically tough-guy stuff, she is nonthreatening. Aside from her being marginally doable, she's possesses nothing typically feminine. She is effectively a "dude" like them--moreso than McCain even. So, they're voting for themselves but repressing this fact and representing their choice superficially as a vote for radical (which tough-guy feminism is) change. Rationality apparently never comes into the equation.

These are weird times.

Briefly, Regarding Windpower

I have assumed, correctly I think, that people want very badly to exploit alternative energy sources. By alternative, I mean “not fossil fuels.” It is very tempting to add nuclear to the category, since, if we had more practical alternatives, nuclear would immediately be taken off the table. While “utility scale” wind generation is growing rapidly, it is years and billions of dollars away from the needed degree of implementation. This has left poor jokers like myself to consider household scale alternative energy production. This is a topic I spend way too much time thinking about particularly considering that I can hardly afford anything more than the most trivial household generator. But, apparently I am not alone. The linked article details just how impractical if not imprudent and how unaffordable household generation systems are. But, by virtue of all these points, it illustrates how desperate people are for alternative energy sources—because they buy the systems despite the great impracticality.