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November 25, 2009

My Newest & Most Favoritist Blog is An Exercise in Futility

The resident curmudgeon @ An Exercise in Futility -- Why do I even bother? (a man after my own dark heart) describes himself as,

"an echo-boomer who specializes in deconstructing cultural lies that were handed down to all of us by a generation whose grand ideological experiment failed and consequently ruined the world I’m slated to inherit."

I'd describe him as a star-class kvetcher with a burning-down word habit. Here's a sampler:

How to Destroy a Liberal's Worldview"If the earth increases by an average temperature of 5 degrees, wouldn't that make more of the earth habitable because Canada and Siberia wouldn't be so cold?"(no, because the oceans would rise). "How much would the oceans have to rise to make us lose enough continental space to account for the combination of Siberia and Canada?"(No answer, because they don't know. Your goal here is just to point out how little they know about their eco religion).

Wrongthink Why is hyphenation unsustainable? Simple really. Hyphenated last names are something that up until the baby boomers would have been, and were, flatly rejected by husbands. Sure, some of them got through. But imagine what will happen when a feminist insists that her child's last name be a hyphenated combination and raises her child (her daughter) to be a man hating bitch feminist who also strongly believes in hyphenation. And she marries a pussy man who was also raised in a household where mommy wore the pants and he too has a hyphenated last name. What, pray tell, will they do with theirs? Jones-Green-Smith-Brown? Next time it will be 8 names, by the way. This hyphenation nonsense grows exponentially. After ten generations, a hyphenated last name could include over one thousand discrete last names.
California Sucks Stem-cell research? How is that good? Greenhouse-gas regulations? When your children are laughing at you for being so fucking retarded that you actually believed in global warming, remember that you read this blog and if only you had listened to me you wouldn't have elected some assclown who raised your energy bills by 25% so you could pay for an imaginary solution to an imaginary problem.
Are you really so sure? The same is true about global warming. I watched in horror, my jaw agape, as some shit-for-brains from CNN International said with a straight face that Greenland's ice sheet has been shrinking over the last ten years and that must mean that the planet is doomed. Everybody knows about the ice age â you know, the one that ended about 15,000 years ago. A lot of people don't realize that there were 9 or 10 ice ages before the last one -- indicating that we are in a cyclical glacial-interglacial period whose time scale is approximately 30,000 years. Based on timescales like that, youâd have to be a total idiot to think that observing anything over a period of 10 or even 100 years tells us anything at all. Keep that in mind when you pay Obama's carbon credit tax on your heating bills this winter.
Why Generation Y doesn't stand a chance Unrealistic expectations. A large number of my peers grow up to expect a similar quality of life to the one in which they were raised without anyone ever taking the time to explain to them how it was achieved, let alone empasizing the fact that having 300 friends on MySpace is not enough to land a middle income lifestyle and that life itself is actually harder than it seems. This, again, is a result of our school system, usually held hostage by adamant, frothing parents, shoveling lies about our abilities down our throats. The truth of life is that we canât be anything we want to be, but you'd never get that impression if you heard the ridiculous things said in public schools. For example, a kid in a wheelchair is not walking disabled. He's "differently abled." A kid with an IQ of 80 is not retarded, he is "special". The truth is that the kid in the wheelchair is not going to play professional basketball and the kid with the IQ of 80 is not going to be a physics professor. But we weren't raised to believe that. Our "self esteem" was more important than the truth about our abilities.

Posted by Vanderleun at November 25, 2009 9:03 AM

Evan has Roissy's sensible outlook on male/female relationships without the bitter backlash overtones. It's really pleasant to read such common sense, and gives a little hope for the future of marriage and families.

CGHill: the simple refusal of radical feminists to marry is not what will doom - or actually has already doomed - hyphenated last names. First, most women were and continue to be too smart to start down a path that would end when their great-grandchildren had to jettison eight hyphenated last names and reclaim the paternal names they could have had all along. And more importantly, radical feminists didn't and don't have many children. Mrs. HisNames tend to have more children.

Problem solved, if we can keep the kids away from state-sanctioned indoctrination via the public schools. Of course this whole discussion sidesteps the worse problem of children born to women who never were and never will be married; children who are supported by the taxpayers and whose last name should be "IRS." But that is a different rant altogether ...

Posted by: AskMom at November 25, 2009 8:59 PM

Y'know, I grew up in California. I live here now. (Not too far from where you were raised, Mr. Vanderleun, given that I also grew up near the Tower Books flagship.) And, quite honestly, I want certain parts of the state government to fall and fall hard, despite the fact that it will have deleterious effects on my life. It doesn't seem to cross the voters' minds that there are PROBLEMS in this state, mostly having to do with the fact that money does not grow on trees (or even in the earth anymore; the gold is gone, folks.)

Every election, there's a monetary proposition or four on the ballot that calls for funding that doesn't exist, and every election it or they get voted in. And some of us are screaming, "The state is BROKE, you idiots!"

Posted by: B. Durbin at November 25, 2009 10:22 PM

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The hyphenation bit might take care of itself in the long run, if the "man hating bitch feminists" actually paid attention to what they hated and refused to get married.

Big if, though.

Posted by: CGHill at November 25, 2009 5:03 PM

I trust we've all heard the old saw? "Any man who isn't a liberal in his twenties has no heart -- any man who's still a liberal in his forties has no head." We've seen far too much evidence that the second part of this statement is true, so along comes young Mr. Evan to provide a proof of the first part. Yes, he's funny as hell, and makes plenty of good points, but the cold meanness that emanates from a lot of his writing is pretty hard to take for an aging sentimentalist like myself. (Case in point: this post, which is equal parts clever insult humor and sheer, mindless cruelty.) Those Evil Feminazis must've really done a job on his head in college to make this guy react by becoming the right-wing equivalent of Mark Morford.

Posted by: Mungo at November 25, 2009 6:19 PM

Good catch, Gerard. I like this fellow. Nice to see such a jaundiced eye in a younger person. He makes me feel positively Panglossian in my outlook.

Dr. Johnson would approve.

Posted by: Velociman at November 26, 2009 6:48 AM

The guy who writes EiF is certainly very good, and his older stuff is even better, such as Traveling LOL, Where's the judgment? and Living with your parents: epic fail.

Posted by: Ilkka Kokkarinen at November 27, 2009 1:06 PM