Musings #2

This months edition of things that make me wonder...


How does one reconcile that a twelve year old owns her body to the extent that she can obtain an abortion without her parent’s knowledge, but I have no say about the food I eat (no trans-fats) or whether I wear a seatbelt or not?

Why is everyone worried about Muslims being offended for receiving extra scrutiny at airports? Presumably they want to live, too; and if they don’t, haven’t we identified the problem at that point?

How do the proponents of Marxist philosophy do so with a straight face given that every time it has been tried it has been an utter failure? This wonderful ideology didn’t work in the Soviet Union despite consuming over 20 million lives while it was being fine-tuned to the inevitable dictatorship it became. Ignorance is one thing, but willful blindness is quite another.

When someone refers to “Religious Fundamentalists”, why don’t Buddhist Monks or the Amish spring to mind? Why is it considered impossible to be devout without being dangerous? Does anyone really fear the Jehovah’s Witnesses? Aren’t there Secular Fundamentalists, and aren’t they at least as extreme as those they seek to vilify?

Why does Hollywood rail against “Corporate Interests” when everyone in Hollywood is incorporated? If corporations are evil, why are actors, producers, agents, film companies, special effects companies and every other segment of the film industry incorporated?

Why do they ask you for your ethnicity and sex on a job application “for EEOC Purposes” while simultaneously claiming it makes no difference? If it makes no difference, why ask the question in the first place? If it makes no difference, why not ask people after they are hired? Then the answers couldn’t possibly effect the decision.

How does a physician, schooled in anatomy, reassemble the tissue removed from a woman during an abortion and then reconcile their Hippocratic oath to do no harm with the reassembly of what is obviously a dismembered human?

Why is America always compared to perfection by those that criticize her, and never to any real country? It’s like trying to live up to a widow’s idealized vision of her former mate. Where on earth is there an example of a comprehensive system that works better than the one we enjoy? Could those leveling such criticism withstand a similar barrage?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Why do the wonderful ideas touted by the elites always have to be coerced by the government (i.e. at gunpoint)?

Why do they swab your arm with alcohol prior to administering a lethal injection?

When you go to a donut shop, they pick up your donuts with a piece of wax paper so they don’t touch the donuts with their hands. So why do they put that tainted piece of waxed paper into the bag with your donuts?

Why are there Braille pads on drive-up ATM’s?

Good news is worthless; bad news is actionable. If you hear all is well, what do you do? If a customer complains the coffee isn’t hot, you check the coffee pot!

Why are the keys on phones different from the number pads on computers?

Wrestlemania 23 is now officially 10 days away. Glorious.