Behold the Power of Unfettered Ignorance Seeking Attention

I'm pretty sure that if you sat down and really tried your hardest to come up with a group more antagonistic to just about everybody in the country, you still couldn't beat the Westboro Baptist Church group, which of course infamously protests at service members' funerals claiming they "deserved" to die because God hates homosexuals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

Strong work fundamentalists, nice work on helping society along with your message.

In related news, I'm pretty sure this poor Marine's father must be pulling his hair out on a nightly basis.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?hpt=Sbin


Can you imagine having an actual conversation with one of these Westboro folk'll that didn't involve you awkwardly backing away wide eyed and horrified?


Coming in a distant second is that awesome Michigan militia group, the one that decided that killing a single cop followed by killing a bunch of cops at the subsequent funeral might be a good idea to springboard their movement against the entire Federal Government.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/31/michigan.militia.hutaree/index.html?iref=allsearch


Why do I feel like their basement meetings talking about their ideology played out like a creepy SNL sketch?

Here is that group's leader:



Why do I also feel like there is a barista at some Michigan Starbucks that has known this guy was crazy for months?

(To a manager) "Dude, that guy came in again today. He ain't right...."

I just know that happened.

Michael Doesn't Blog Here Anymore

I've been staring at this blog for a few weeks now trying to think of a way to dive back in. Not really knowing where to start, I decided to give myself ten good minutes and just type what comes to mind in the hopes of jump starting this thing. We'll see how it goes.

A lot has happened since my last post. A LOT. THAT post was written from the other side of the pond, in my now distant apartment in Kaiserslautern, Germany. THIS post comes to you live from Carlsbad, California. THAT post was written by a soldier. THIS post is being written by a civilian (though still a government worker - only more "DMV" than "Be all you can be".) THAT post, was written by a man about to undergo a lot of transition. THIS post is being written by a man who is living large in routine city. THAT post was written by a man who loved bears. THIS post, well, actually same thing. Bears rule.

And there it is. A lot has changed. A LOT. I'm not going to try and cover it in one fell swoop. Who says I have to? I don't. And I won't. (That's probably what has kept me away for so long - the thinking that I should.) But I will put a few words to the page again, just to get started. And see where things go from there. Hopefully just getting going will make it easier to type the next post, and the next and so on. We shall see.

And there it is - ten minutes is up. (Sad but true. I don't type slow, but I think, write, proofread, and edit slow when it comes to posting here.)

Stick around, maybe I'll surprise you.

(Does anyone still read this thing? I suppose the comments will be the judge of that.)




This guy still knows how to party! (After a Vegas Bachelor Party Summer 2010)