Ghost Town

Chapter 10, In Which #austinthebeagle  Writes Some Mortifying Love Letters http://upsidedownonmars.blogspot.com/2012/08/unrequited-love-among-downtown-doggy-set.html

I'm feeling a little bit better after last night. I now know that, after Romney and Ryan gut Medicare, at least our senile grandparents will be able to support themselves by yelling at chairs to entertain rich people!

On the other hand, Republican activist Mary Holmsley said they should be re-elected indefinitely.  "You know there’s an old saying, 'If it isn’t broken don’t fix it,'” she said. “We have a strong state — the envy of 49 other states.”  Oh, Mary.  This convention is the first time you've even met anyone from one of the other 49 states, isn't it?  And you haven't talked to them much yet, have you? http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2014-statewide-elections/delegates-want-fresh-blood-2014/

New chapter in my ongoing saga about moving to Portland from Texas. http://upsidedownonmars.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-devil-over-my-shoulder-wishes-we.html

If they are really voting on "values," evangelicals will need to decide if it is so important that gays be persecuted and abortion be legislated to a minimum rather than birth-controlled and educated to a minimum that they are willing to ignore all of the red letters in their holy book. http://americanvaluesnetwork.org/aynrandvsjesusmemo/

Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Sounds like SOMEONE'S going to HELL. http://global.christianpost.com/news/pat-robertson-in-adoption-warning-you-dont-know-what-kind-of-sexual-abuse-theyve-had-80168/

This election season is like the Texas-Texas A&M game if both teams and all the fans were armed with war scythes and they were lacing the nachos in the concession stand with PCP and bath salts. #SoOverIt

This whole story is kind of suspect, but I hope this part is true: "Virginia locals rewarded McMurray with a rush of business this morning. The bakery ran out of food by 1:15 pm." If right-wingers have decided that the way to show how right-wing they are is by by eating fattening crap like Chick-Fil-A and cupcakes, maybe they won't be able to fit into the voting booths by November. http://washingtonexaminer.com/secret-service-bought-cupcakes-to-thank-baker-for-turning-down-biden/article/2505119#.UC1a3qCJl8H

Since the other candidate's religion forbids drinking alcohol, I'm thinking keeping craft beer flowing out of the White House is as good a reason as any to re-elect Obama. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/08/15/158875907/president-obamas-tour-bus-rolls-with-white-house-home-brew?ft=1&f=1008

Couple of new blog posts... http://upsidedownonmars.blogspot.com/

I hope Ryan is wrong in this quote. If Ayn Rand did the best job of explaining the "morality of capitalism" than capitalism is an ugly and brutal system that wrecks lives and the human spirit. Rand would have the disabled, the elderly, the sensitive and those with a bad head for business destroyed and left behind in a horrifying social experiment. She was a Social Darwinist long after anyone else with any sense of morality had moved on from Social Darwinism and was, by all accounts, simply a dreadful human being. As someone with a disabled sibling-- and as a humanist-- I find her reprehensible, I find the worship of her by a major candidate frightening, and I find this VP choice further proof-- as if we needed any-- that Mitt Romney has no soul.

Portland Twilight Criterium, August 8, 2012.

New blog post: http://upsidedownonmars.blogspot.com/2012/08/what-you-do-in-oregon.html

A profile picture update is perhaps in order.

Every driver's license picture tells a story, don't it? The picture on the left is my Texas driver's license picture, taken circa four years ago.  The pic on the right is my Oregon driver's license picture, taken a couple of weeks ago. Now while the Oregon picture is still a driver's license picture, with all that entails, it has little of the "after"-picture-in-an-anti-meth-PSA that the Texas picture exudes.  These photos look like a before-and-after meth series, only in reverse. So, there you have it. Texas is worse for you than methamphetamine.

#clydethebeagle at Cannon Beach, Oregon.

#austinthebeagle at Cannon Beach, Oregon.

Blogger moved all of the gadgets on my blog on the right side to the bottom of its own volition. Anyone experienced this?

New blog post... http://upsidedownonmars.blogspot.com/2012/08/will-how-does-it-viola-i-dont-know-its.html

Gore Vidal was our Jiminy Cricket and without him in the world America is just a wooden boy that wants to be real.