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Noted in Passing: A Good Walk Spoiled

Seems like every time you look around. . . .

. . . .some group of well-meaning Karenholes is conspiring to transform something that takes real balls to accomplish into something that only requires imaginary balls. (And a hard hat and a tether and a ticket-taking guard to evaluate your girly man quotient.)

The original.  Knocked off one or two hikers a year. No prisoners!

The Pussified. Next up? Access for the disabled and those identifying as a wheelchair.

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  • Mike Austin December 29, 2022, 11:06 AM

    I would pay good money to watch Lizzo walk it.

    • ThisIsNotNutella December 29, 2022, 6:58 PM

      Hang in there for my my critically-acclaimed PhD thesis plus accompanying Salon article: a critical reinterpretation of The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Flute-fellating Fried Chicken Inhaling no Mayonnaise on Muh Large Fries Wid Dat, Cracker Sheboon Fat Shaming. No auto-ethnographic cop-outs for White Trash like me… Hell is Other People.

      • Mike Austin December 29, 2022, 11:40 PM

        Will Lizzo play Brother Juniper?

        “Hell is other people.” So wrote Sartre. For me Hell would be having to read him.

        • FREDERICK BAUMANN December 30, 2022, 7:36 AM

          Armed with my Ontario-learned French, I found Sartre’s 1951 play The Devil and the Good Lord fairly enjoyable and even darkly humorous in places, pivoting as it does on intentionally unclear near-oracular interpretations of certain words and phrases. In the middle of what was five years of high school at that time (since reduced to four), I was quite proud of my very trivial accomplishment, as hellish as you reckon you would find it.

          • Mike Austin December 30, 2022, 8:15 AM

            I took several classes in Philosophy in college many moons ago. In the section labeled “Existentialism” I had to read Sartre and Camus—but in English, as my French was rudimentary. After reading both, I was stuck with the question: What is the point of their writing? I came away with the idea that such a philosophy was suited for Frenchmen but not at all suited for me.

            Incidentally, read Paul Johnson’s chapter on Sartre in “Intellectuals”. Sarte really was a ruthless and amoral creature whose life at its end amounted to nothing save for betrayal and lies and emptiness. His philosophy—such as it was—was really a reflection of the man’s soul. His concubine Simone de Beauvoir was as well quite the piece of work. Worthless wastrels, degenerates and liars the both of them.

            • Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) December 30, 2022, 8:45 AM

              In one sharp and piercing phrase, to wit, “What is the point of their writing?”, you have laid bare the essence of “Existentialism,” especially the French variety. The point is that there is no point. Hard to believe so many “intellectuals” made their living by spinning endless strings of words that could have been completely defined by your phrase. But that’s life today. People unnecessarily complicate simple things, like the concept of male and female, and oversimplify the complicated, as with Darwinian evolution, which requires an intentional ignorance about the complexities of cellular biology.

              • Mike Austin December 30, 2022, 11:01 AM

                I should add that both Sartre and his concubine Simone de Beauvoir collaborated with the Nazis during the occupation.

                Evolutionists hate God. That is why they come up with something—anything—in their attempts to prove He does not exist. They refuse to consider that they themselves owe their very existence to One infinitely greater than themselves.

                Australopithecus, Peking Man, “punctuated equilibrium”—and by all means let us not forget Piltdown Man—are all nonsense and easily proved to be so. But this fact will not deter them in their long war against God. For their belief is not based upon Logic, but upon hatred.

              • ghostsniper December 30, 2022, 11:24 AM

                You encapsulated something I forced my self to read recently that was written by a female placed on a pedestal by people that should know better. Yes, forced. In a moment of curiosity I wanted to try to understand what she was writing. Alas, it was not possible. You see, in the end, her writing had no point other than to cram as many meaningless words into meaningless paragraphs as possible, perhaps to mow under the reader and cause him to believe she knows what she is writing about.

                Nothing I wrote above makes sense and that was the point.
                The web, now, is much like this.

                • Mike Austin December 30, 2022, 11:40 AM

                  True that. Much of what passes as writing these days is little more than gibberish written by the addled, the depraved and the socially crippled.

                  C. S. Lewis recommended reading old books, books whose authors were skilled at prose and poetry—and who actually made sense.

      • Vanderleun December 30, 2022, 1:01 AM

        BAng! zoom! TO THE MOON LIZZO TO THE MOON.

        KERSPLAT!

    • Snakepit Kansas December 30, 2022, 8:01 AM

      While carrying Stacy Abrahms on her back?

      • Mike Austin December 30, 2022, 8:17 AM

        After reading your comment my mind was occupied with a picture of lesbian hippos having sex.

      • Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) December 30, 2022, 8:51 AM

        I am quite certain that the combined lifting capacity of the NASA SLS booster and the SpaceX Star Ship/Heavy Lift vehicle could not accelerate the enormous mass resulting from a payload of Lizzo and Stacy Abrams to escape velocity. I would pay money to see it, though. Especially the glittering, sputtering spectacle of all that avoirdupois burning up on reentry.

  • Joe Krill December 29, 2022, 8:41 PM

    If the Spanish had used Italian stone masons for the original build it would still be usable. I used to contract work to a really great Italian construction company which specialized in cement work–they did a lot of tower foundations for me. One of their favorite jokes was–How do you break up an Italian wedding—yell–crete is here.

    • Snakepit Kansas December 30, 2022, 2:41 PM

      Joe, you started it….Italian jokes, rough ones:
      How do you kill an Italian while he is drinking water? Slam the toilet lid on his head. How do you break an Italian’s finger? Punch him in the nose. How can you tell an Italian has robbed your apartment? Toilet seat is up and the cat is pregnant. What do Italians use for deodorant? Raid. Out of all the airplanes in WWII, how could you tell the Italians from the rest? They had the only planes with hair under the wings. An Italian girl was in NY on a cab ride then realized she didn’t have any money. The cab driver told her to take off her panties and he would go to the back seat with her, but she said ” But my panties are only worth 50 cents”.

      If you are offended my family is Welsh and Polish, so have at it.

      • Mike Austin December 30, 2022, 3:15 PM

        I dated several Italian ballerinas in my wilder days. One joke one of them told me: “Why wasn’t Christ born in Italy? Because they could not find a virgin.”

        As a Caucasian / Mexican / Native American / Catholic, I can poke fun at a lot of folks, many of whom do not take kindly to such things.

        And so?

  • BonafideView December 29, 2022, 10:55 PM

    The ridiculous helmets are the most offensive part

    • Mike Austin December 29, 2022, 11:41 PM

      Yep. Everybody must be 100 percent safe 100 percent of the time, everywhere, always and forever.

  • Anonymous December 30, 2022, 7:20 AM

    call me Lucille, tough guy.

  • FREDERICK BAUMANN December 30, 2022, 7:41 AM

    Armed with my Ontario-learned French, I found Sartre’s 1951 play The Devil and the Good Lord fairly enjoyable and even darkly humorous in places, pivoting as it does on intentionally unclear near-oracular interpretations of certain words and phrases. In the middle of what was five years of high school at that time (since reduced to four), I was quite proud of my very trivial accomplishment, as hellish as you reckon you would find the its philosophically unreadable leftist hypocrite author!

  • pbird January 1, 2023, 7:55 PM

    I have harbored that scary old video for a long time. Hair raising! Spooky soundtrack.