skulzwerks

  The Strait of Hormuz is open. Nope, it's closed. Wait ... it's open again. Nope, closed. Back and forth and anyway the wind blows. Such is a day in the life of the Strait of Hormuz. Ocean going vessels are churning up the waters of the Strait of Hormuz not knowing if they can sail or otherwise just sit there are get targeted by the Iranians ... then the U.S. ... then back to the Iranians again ... It's probably a really bad time for maritime captains and the vessels they captain. Do we sail or do we not ... a question fit for putting to Hamlet. That's a shakespearean reference by the way. Yes I've read a number of works by Shakespeare and no I would not recommend Shakespeare period. Dang hard reading no doubt. Shakespeare was popular reading back in his day but today? Nah ... I'll pass. I did ace the exam we were given on Macbeth. Nailed it. The tales of Hamlet, Macbeth, and any number of Shakespearean works highlight the really fucked up nature of European mo...

If you would like to swing on a star, you're going to need some serious PPE. PPE would be 'personal protective equipment ' and anyone that has worked in a clinical laboratory or hospital knows that right off. So if you'd care to 'swing on a star', well you'll most likely want to do that on a "brown dwarf" as the surface temperature of a "brown dwarf" is about the same as a hot cup of coffee. Not really all that bad ... however, I'm not certain where one might find a "brown dwarf" star anywhere close to home. Our home of course. The ones you'd more than likely want to avoid would be your "blue giant" stars that can reach as hot as 100,000 K and I do believe that's to read 100,000 degrees kelvin. So 'kelvin' (K) is the base unit of thermodynamic temperature in the International System of Units (SI), widely used in science. It's a measuring scale starting at absolute zero (0 K or -273.15 C), which ...

  I became seriously involved in militant resistance a way long long time ago. Vietnam War resistance to be factual. Resistance to LBJ and Nixon's involvement in the genocidal assault on North Vietnam and the surrounding countries was historic. American citizens were killed by National Guard troops in Ohio and prior to that, Ronny Raygun gassed protesting students at U Cal Berkeley. Raygun used Highway Patrol helicopters for that nifty little onslaught. California Highway Patrol made famous by the 'Chips' bullshit. Then the prez Raygun sent the U.S. Marines to Grenada to militarily show how butch Raygun was in actual fact. Not very butch at all really. Feeble for certain. Almost like trumpf. Then with a slight pause in global butchery, there came Bush 1 followed by Bubba Clinton although Bubba did bomb Libya. Muammar Gaddafi made Bubba really hot under his lipstick stained collar. Bubba bombed a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Yep, that's butch no doubt. ...

  Jeans ... blue jeans baby. I've worn nothing but ever since I could first recognize what was cool. There is absolutely NO other fabric on our entire planet that can match denim. Blue jeans baby ... blue jeans. I started off with Levi's and then came dungarees and now it's Wranglers. Real comfortable jeans. Levi's fell out of fashion after they started to offshore their production of jeans. Pity no doubt. Levi's has never really recovered from that little faux pas. The dummies went cheap and that cost them big time and Levi's is certainly not the global titan from back in the day. So now it's Wranglers and back in the day wranglers were what the ropers wore. The dopers wore dungarees and Levi's until the Levi's literally wore out and fell apart from frayed denim. Wore the jeans to work to play to concerts to weddings and just about anywhere else one was wont to be comfortable. Funerals were the rare exception. Funeral wear seemed almost a formal aff...

  Yes friends you read the headline correctly. Columbia the nation of, is planning on "culling" 80 hippos that were introduced to Columbia the nation of, by now dead and gone Pablo Escobar notorious Columbian drug lord and owner/operator of a private zoo that Escobar kept for his viewing pleasure. So after the demise of Escobar, the estimated four hippos that were first introduced has now grown into a population of an approximate 169 of the river horses and that number is estimated to reach 500 by the year 2030 which is not so far off and time certainly does fly when having fun. The hippos are having fun and are enjoying their new, Columbia the nation of, home. Anyway the braintrust that is supervising the hippos of Columbia the nation of, well, they've decided the best way to deal with the exploding hippo population is to butcher 80 of the hippos and there you go. Damn heartless I'd think and yes the Colombia braintrust tried their best to find a new home for 80 hipp...