PTSD

the Ol'Buzzard

THE MYSTERIOUS MIND OF WOMEN.

Let me preface this by saying that I love my wife.   But even after thirty-five years I am still at a loss to the mysterious workings of her female mind.  

I have a big comfortable chair that I sit in to read.   Behind that chair is a large, three bulb, bright pole lamp – I prefer a bright light when I am reading.    

My wife likes to read on the couch, and she has a much more attractive pole lamp she reads by: this lamp is not as bright which is her preference.

My light is old and has needed rewiring since I bought it used fifteen years ago.    I finally decided to take the lamp up to my possible room – man cave – den, writing room, junk room…   and take it apart to rewire.  In the meantime I brought down the pole lamp that I use next to my computer and desk.   

My wife doesn't like this light - it’s ugly – and it is too bright; but I like a bright light and I don’t mind the switch.  

When I get the light downstairs my wife absolutely insist that I place it beside the couch for her to use and move her light over by my chair.   

I complain loud and long that her light is not bright enough for my liking; but the dye is cast, and even though I constantly grumble and complain I have to read by the damn dull light.   Meanwhile the light that I brought downstairs – the one she can’t stand – is placed by the couch and she has to aim it toward the bookcase because she says it is too bright????

I have to admit that I don’t understand this mysterious female logic; but after two week of reading misery I finally got hot and rewired the old pole light, brought it downstairs and placed it by my chair and moved her light back by the couch.    She is perfectly satisfied with this arrangement. 

I have pondered and pondered her female thought process in this matter and am at a loss.   It couldn't possibly be that this whole light-switching was to motivate me to get the old lamp rewired, could it?    Are women that wily?

I feel like I have been played.

the Ol’Buzzard

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER ON GAME OF THRONES?

 Yes: where is the god of tits and wine?
the Ol'Buzzard

GLOBAL POWER; BUT AT WHAT COST?

It is a little late for asking this question.
At this point nothing can change.
It is a mindset - 
We convince ourselves we need this.


But at what cost?
the Ol'Buzzard

THE THRILL IS GONE!

Good Buy Old Friend: Though I never met you
You kept me company through many a long night.
the Ol'Buzzard

BUZZARD BARF

A SCATOLOGY QUESTION

Did you ever have one of those small farts that result in a fart bubble working its way up the crack of your ass?

I just did.

It is kind of funny when you think about it - and a real ZEN moment if you focus on it. 

the Ol'Buzzard

GMO: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

Liberal environmentalist (of which I am one) seem to have a knee jerk reaction to anything that changes the environment.   We often focus on some perceived violation blinding ourselves to the overall picture – I hate to use this phrase: the greater good. 

Genetically modified organisms carry a sinister connotation.   It brings to mind some Frankenstein plant that will come up from the laboratory and kill us all: a time for us to break out the torches and pitch forks and storm the castle and dispatch the monster – preferably on a dark and stormy night.

We have been doing genetic modification for centuries.   Hybrid tomato plants: those perfect tomatoes we buy at the supermarket have been genetically modified through selective breeding; all the beef we buy at the supermarket has been cross bred (genetically modified) to improve beef production.   Nature has genetically modified all of creation through evolution.   Now we have the ability to do the same thing through manipulation of DNA strands.

Genetically modified corn uses less water, is more disease and insect resistant and produces a higher yield.   Genetically modified crops require less pesticides than regular crops.

A farmer I knew in Kentucky nearly doubled his corn yield by switching to genetically modified corn and planting with Round UP.   Before we get all huffy and puffy – everything we buy at the supermarket that is not organic has been sprayed with pesticides and chemicals of some type. 

Don’t get me wrong – Monsanto is in it for the profit; but, it requires science and somebody has to do it. 

The necessity to genetically modify our food supply is to insure it survive and thrive in an environment changed by global warming, allowing us to increase production to feed the ever expanding human population on the earth.

The biggest environmental problem that exist – the core cause of all polluting and climate change is over population.   The earth now has topped seven billion humans and is projected to reach ten billion by 2050 (a nearly fifty percent increase.)  We are using up natural resources at an alarming rate and creating proportional increases in pollution.  

Over population is the elephant in the room and we are ignoring it: people having more than two natural children are being environmentally irresponsible.    The days of having six to a dozen children to work the farm in the 1920 when the world population was one billion perhaps suited that time; but that time has passed. 

My wife and I try to eat organic food – we belong to a farm coop.   However, small farming is not sustainable for unchecked world population growth. 

The world water supply is dwindling and farmlands are becoming arid, resulting in famine and a related increases in diseases.

 If we are to meet the needs of a fifty percent population growth by 2050 it must be done through drought, disease and insect resistant plants genetically modified to increased yield.   It is not the ideal solution but is a realistic, logical solution for the coming decades.

Let’s not forget that stem cell research allowing for genetic modification in human beings is the future for curing such diseases as Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s – soon we will all be genetically modified organisms - GMOs.

THIS IS NOT SCIENCE - THIS IS NOT ACCURATE.

the Ol'Buzzard