Preface to Vehemenism

Opening letter to future ultra-violent men.

We stand at a transition. Either at the bottom of a cliff we may ascend, or at the precipice of one we will be pushed from. This “we” is addressed to men alone. Only we are the ones presented with this unique problem. It is a problem of perspective and one that contains many recursive questions. The answer to these questions will ultimately decide whether or not the observer was indeed a man. That question will ultimately distill to a single query: “Am I to destroy myself?”

Killing is Murder

There is a long running question of where the cutoff is from justifiable homicide and outright murder. In the case of war it is a little bit gray. I, as a Catholic, have a guide that is fairly

Drumpf boy is on a roll:

https://www.rt.com/news/380256-assad-foreign-troops-invaders/

Here is my analysis and why this is different.

In the past all the invasions were under the pretense of a country that has “forfeit sovereignty” and or invited the US to intervene.

Why It Needs Help - My Letter

This is an open letter to the Covered California website designer, administrators, bureaucrats and contractors.

Website Design and Usability

I have several things listed below. Things I find to be of poor design or just plain broken.

You Don’t Got Mail!

• “Secure Mailbox (2)” even though nothing was in my mail box.

• It randomly logged me out.

GO’ON CLICK ME IF YA CAN

• I am low on time for open enrollment and it gave me a “Pay Now” button in order to do it faster, but the button was broken. It would pop up and then if I tried to pay it would throw a JavaScript error in my console and close out. Now I can’t pay. It’s weird when people don’t want my money.

Land of the Free

Welcome to America. You are now free to think exactly how we tell you.

In 2016 I realized a few things about people in the United States. I realized that women are not going to vote for a woman because she is a women unless she meets several social minimums. This is in contrast to minorities voting for someone because they are a minority. I realized that the conservative right is indeed as hypocritical in their voting practices and narratives. I found that the class warfare narrative of the left is easily mirrored by the

The Waves of Technology Professional

I like to consider 2001 the tail edge of the Internet bubble. It was a brutal time to be in a computer science field. There weren’t many jobs. The jobs that were being squatted on were jealously guarded. I needed the one thing that nobody would provide. Experience. So instead I grinded projects and studied unceasingly.

In 2001 I had to take a job as an “integration specialist”. That is basically a programmer job with a crappy title, so they didn’t have to pay me much. I was making $12.50/hr, and it was business casual dress code. Meaning I worked for barely enough to pay my bills, but I had to wear a tie to work. This Internet revolution was starting to look like a failed promise. I should have realized then.

This essay is not an attack on the people who claim membership to a philosophical outlook, but an exposition on the inherent difficulties which exist in maintaining traditional systems.

Let us begin with the needful: term definition.

Term Definition

Conservatism as a political and social philosophy promotes retaining traditional social institutions in the context of the culture and civilization.

This is the definition found at Wikipedia and I find it to be a pretty good summation of the idea. Conservatives are those who hold the belief that there is value in the current institutions and that change will have negative effect on the systems of value that the previous generations have passed forward.