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Valleys and Farms

Nov09
2016 Rob Written by Rob

These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Someday you’ll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you’ll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I’ve witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There’s so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun’s gone to hell and
The moon’s riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it’s written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

Posted in Everyday Life, Faith, Family and Friends

How Voting Works, and Florida in 2004

Nov04
2016 Rob Written by Rob

Only because I love all you guys, and have been reading too much about this lately, and so feel the need to spread some firsthand knowledge out there. You can rest easy about vote hacking next Tuesday.

Now I’m going to preface all this with the caveat that my information is a dozen years old. However, this is the government we’re talking about here, so I strongly doubt much has changed since 2004 in how this process works. But if you want to believe that either Russia or the global banking cartel plan to hijack voting machines in Wisconsin, I can’t help you. You’re probably, in fact, beyond help.

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The Abyss Looks Back

Sep28
2016 Rob Written by Rob

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”

I’ve been a presidential politics junkie since before I could vote. Part of that, I think, comes from growing up in Battleground Florida, where even the most placid and uneventful national election is cause for riot and shooting war. I remember watching Dukakis speak at my high school in the fall of 1988. I briefly shook hands with both Clintons when I volunteered on his campaign in 1992. Worked in the Hillsborough Elections Office supporting early voting efforts in 2004. They were all bloodbaths. (And the less said about 2000, the better.)

Living in California since 2007, I still have a hard time not covering for the mortar rounds every four years. California isn’t a battleground. Everyone knows that, every four years, the state outcome will have a 30-point margin in favor of Pacific blue. There are no rallies. No ad carpetbombs. No crisscrossing bus tours. No fights in the streets. There’s just the general sense that, no matter what happens in the nation at large, here it’ll still be California.

This year, that’s the only damned thing holding my sanity together.
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Posted in Faith, Family and Friends, Navel Gazing

The 27%: A Public Service Announcement

Jun17
2016 Rob Written by Rob

As we progress in this season of political inanity, crazy ass news, and just general WTF-iveness, we’re all going to see a lot of opinion polls, and we’re all often going to express shock or dismay over how many people have signed onto whatever notion that we ourselves think is insane, provably factually incorrect, or just generally brain-dead stupid.

Yay, election years.

In those moments, we’ll express – privately or publicly – our pessimism about the general direction of the country, perhaps of Western civilization. We’ll mock, we’ll shout, we’ll shake our heads over the idea that some of these people actually vote or are otherwise taken seriously.

(Note: this R&K is not about any one set of political or personal views. It is also not about any mass of citizenry other than that of the United States. If you read partisanship here, that’s a flaw in your own wiring, and I hope you deal with it.)

You can rest easy however, my fellow Americans. Because the 27% are on the case.
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