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Women will now need to register for the draft. It will be interesting to see whether that has any effect on how carefully we consider going to war. Of course, without an actual draft, the effect may be nada. It hasn't been, um, too careful of late. The draft is an interesting civil rights issue. On one hand, should the state force citizens to kill, and thus violate a basic moral tenet? On the other, and all volunteer force means a true cross section of the population doesn't get to loose their sons and daughters - so why speak up when shitheel projects like Iraq happens? Principles versus practical result. Hmmmmm.

The mysogyny is running strong on Facebook, complete with lamentations from soldiers about pregos and sluts! 2013? Not everybody got that memo.

My brain is phat.

haters gotta hate, and winners gotta win, boys. It's the Song of the Angry Hairless Monkey.

Perhaps Che can enlist Tommy the Drunken Turtle and the Old Hippy to get his revolution off high center. In the meantime......(yet another) VICTORY PART-AYYYYYY!!!!!

Wo-man. Woah, man. You've got a gun. Let's have some fun. Look at those Ta-li-ban run...

One guess as to who sued them...

I did meet a cool lady in a 1960's motor boat who said she'd been boating on the lake since the damn was built. It took about a decade to fill, during which time she and her family started plying its waters, watching cliff after cliff collapse into the water due to undercutting. There are countless petroglyphs and other remains down there.

I kayaked on Powell for 10 days. The slickrock shore is covered in several inches of grey, stinking slime. Two of the arms were closed due to fecal contamination. I bumped a grogon with my paddle - a first in any body of water for me. Every beach was a garbage pile save one - way up the Escalante, inaccessible to motor craft due to a logjam. The lake has shrunk to a fraction of its original size - making water quality problems even worse. That was my experience, anyway. It probably looked a lot better when Charlie Heston swam away from his spacecraft in Planet of the Apes.

With Obamacare, you'll be able to comparison shop for insurance online everywhere. That's how they're gonna steal your soul.

Some folks have a lot more to worry about than the rest of us blue pill poppers. Knowledge can be a burden.

Well, if they do that's one more great reason to despise them.

If you're fat you don't deserve to live, so no flu shot. Fortunately, you won't live long. That'll be one less pair of drum tight spandex to have to look at, I reckon.

Why can't they invent french fries made of broccoli?

It's a greasy slope!

You can't live without fat. Your brain's made of it. Think about it.

Zion's Subway (long day or 2 day) and Keyhole (1/2 day) are great first canyoneering trips. Water temps are around 50 - be prepared for that. Guided trips with a lot of swimming supply drysuits. Orderville Canyon is a cool long day, low tech day. It dumps out into the Virgin River, though - lots of wade and swim the last 2 miles or so. July's fine - just watch the wetter. Buckskin Gulch is another area fave - 13 miles or so, one escape hatch midway. Non technical. Be ready for 100+ temps up top. Lake Powell is a huge toilet bowl, complete with floaters. Its really, really disgusting, particularly in summer. Half burned car batteries in fire rings 5 feet apart - the white trash power boating community has really redecorated the place up nice. They should definitely drain that shithole.

on Ptarmigan Ridge this weekend. There was a little bit of everything up there this weekend - patches of it not bad. The ring around the moon was super spacey, myan. Slept out under the stars with the bag unzipped. Tyson, did the pox take ya, brothuh?

Gun nuts: up in arms about a freedom that isn't threatened, applauding when our other freedoms were taken away.

If you truly live in the moment, you're already living forever. INSPIRATION FACEBOOK POST. PLEASE LIKE.

Well, ya gotta die of somethin' I reckon.

Until Americans are HWP to a man, woman, and child, all other health care work must cease. I used to design heart monitors, so I spent a fair bit of time in ICUs at our beta testing hospital. Most of the folks in the ICU were, um...old. AGING EPIDEMIC!!!!!! The cardio nurses did tend to be on the big side, but that might have been more of a Oklahoma thing. I'm not arguing wicha, GGK, that's pointless. Just bored after such a fantastic weekend. Corn snow in Jan? Yup.

You can if I can fire a missile or two at the parking nazi across the street. Can you fire missiles when the thing's in park?

I'll take the sweater on the left. Got the brunette.

Bone's reality: Lyndon LaRouche meets the Teli Tubbies