thom space

God doing what God does best

“I believe in the nobility of what we’re doing. It’s not an occupation or an invasion, it’s a classic battle between good and evil,” the job of the chaplin “is to help inexperienced troops reconcile their duty to kill with their respect for human life.”

The oft over looked benefit of being in with God is that it makes killing infidels a bit easier, I’m glad that our great Government has not forgotten who butters their bread.

drinking alone is perhaps the best way to find a sense of self. Perhaps more, it is a way to truly become introspective. Spect the Intro, what am I about right now? I ask myself with an air of suspicion. It is not what I am about that is my trouble, I am about figureing out how to be a person whom does what he thinks. Life is right here, it is happening right now, this fact constantly blows my mind. Clearly the point of life is to live life. I’m liveing life, I should take solace in the fact that at least for the time being I have the ability to say that I am doing what I am thinking. John Donne did what he thought and look at what he did, Laura A put it simply, ?(Ex) (Man(x) ^ Island(x)), and that is the truth. I have the next three days off, So I am going to do my best to make the best of them. yip yip yip.

A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class

“If she were not poor, she would not have lost her teeth, and if she had not lost her teeth, perhaps she would not have remained poor. Poverty is a peculiar, insidious thing, not just one problem but a constellation of problems: not just inadequate wages but also inadequate education, not just dead-end jobs but also limited abilities, not just insufficient savings but also unwise spending, not just the lack of health insurance but also the lack of healthy households. The villains are not just exploitative employers but also incapable employees, not just overworked teachers but also defeated and unruly pupils, not just bureaucrats who cheat the poor but also the poor who cheat themselves.”

There is a fear that I think all americans have… to be poor. Perhaps it is not a universal american fear, but if it is not I do not know what is. This article from the ny times highlights so much of what makes the US great and simultaniously creates a perfect picture of everything that is wrong with US. If you are not a liberal you have no heart. (luckly you have a brain)

Between A-Basin, the Club, and Big Sky, I have been on the slopes 42 days this season. Humm, humm, humm, I am on track to ski more than I ever have in my life, and the crazy part for me to comprehend is that it is still early season. By the time the real snow comes I hope to be in the best shape of my life, which I don’t think will be much of a problem seeing as how I think I already am in the best shape of my life.

So in other news I crashed so wicked hard the other day coming off of the ridge at the club, luckly I just got a new helmet so I didn’t die. I really don’t mean to make it sound so dramatic, I doubt I would have died.

So I just got a new album the other day, buying something from the “Tyler Carter recommends” list is a surefire way to have your shit flipped. Anyway, here is a pitchfork.

Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein: Pitchfork Review

“My shell, mechanical found ghost/ But my ghetto is animal found toast,” a taste of the tortured environment they document in their hometown New York City. Vordul grabs the mic and busts for 2? minutes, beginning with the end of life and ending with a near-hopeless call for peace. Vast Aire then takes a microscope to the street, descending into prose so dense and depraved that the stomach lurches.

There is a particular person whom I work with that I have determined essentially to be a walking blob of negative energy. I am always surprised how quickly I am brought down by people who suck. This person is the the first one I have met while being in Big Sky whom does not seem happy to be alive, and quite frankly I find it to be perplexing, however more than perplexing I find it to be annoying. Luckily my boss let me change the days that I work, so now I can pretend he doesn’t exist, and “out of sight out of mind” is good enough for me.

So today was something along the lines of my 25 day of skiing up here in the old big sky country, combined with the 10 days that I logged in colorado I am on track to have the most active ski season of my life, whoopee. In other news I now have closure. Take that for what you will, but it means what it means.

Are emotions moral? by F. H. Buckley

“We do not punish because the wrongdoer treated others as means and not ends, or because he has negative net-present value on some utilitarian calculus. Abstract theories of justice dull us to the difference between the criminal and his victim and cannot compensate us for the economic and psychic costs of punishing a wrongdoer. We need something more, something provided only by the emotional release that comes from punishing the guilty. We punish because the criminal act was loathsome and the criminal himself hateful.”