Better Odds
Sam Aurelius Milam III
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There's
nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
—source unknown
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Women
and blacks believe that their activism has earned them the right to vote.
Wrong. Before they're permitted to vote, they must qualify and register.
Thus, their activism has provided them with a regulated privilege, not
with a right.
Homosexuals
have been campaigning for a right to be married. What they're getting,
instead, is the same deal that the heterosexuals already have. To
get married, they'll be required to get a license from the government first.
That isn't a right. It's a regulated privilege.
Activists
haven't figured out that a right doesn't come from a court or from a document.
They haven't figured out that a privilege isn't a right. They haven't
figured out that privileged behavior is controlled by whatever agency administers
the privilege. None of the various activists have ever achieved any
rights. What they've done, instead, is to encourage the government
to prohibit something, to require something, or to regulate something.
In every case, whatever else they claim to have accomplished, they've made
the government stronger.
Does
somebody want to make things better? Here's a suggestion. Stop
advocating new regulations and start repealing the existing ones, purely
at random. There'll be about a 95% chance of making things better.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Skin Deep
Sam Aurelius Milam III
For
longer than I can remember, black people have been demanding racial desegregation.
Separate but equal wasn't good enough. Racial integration of some
things but not of other things wouldn't do. Desegregation had to
be universal, pervasive, and unconditional. There couldn't be any
white-only institutions or activities. The agenda might have had
the virtue of purity but, in recent years, I've noticed some things.
A
while back, I discovered a cable TV network called Black Entertainment
Television. In the course of my work, I've encountered references
to black business associations, black journals, black colleges, black scholarships,
a National Society of Black Physicists, a Congressional Black Caucus, a
United Negro College Fund, a National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, and even a National Association of Black Scuba Divers.
It all reminds me of the racially biased institutions that white people
used to create, back before political correctness.
So,
black people have spent decades trying to eliminate racially biased white
institutions and, meanwhile, they've been creating racially biased black
institutions. Even if their institutions are black in name only,
it still seems a lot like hypocrisy to me. It appears that, as groups,
the two races are, indeed, equal where it counts. For good or for
ill, it seems that they're different only at the surface.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Hot Air
Sam Aurelius Milam III
I
wonder if the people who worry about greenhouse gas might need a little
nudge. I wonder if they've considered all of the sources of such
gas. They're aware that such gas comes from cars, lawn mowers, power
plants, factories, and so forth. I wonder if they've thought about
the amount of such gas that's produced by the exhalations of nearly 8 billion
people. Maybe it isn't just our technology that's causing the problem.
Maybe it's also us.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Never Underestimate It
Sam Aurelius Milam III
The
arguments that are used to arrest a driver because he's drunk can just
as well be used to arrest a man because he's married. Driving drunk
doesn't necessarily prove that he'll cause an accident. Being married
doesn't necessarily prove that he'll beat his wife. The "logic" is
identical in both cases. Punishment based on mere possibilities is
a good argument in favor of the power of human stupidity.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
• When
I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned
like a child. When I became a man, I stopped hugging other men and
wearing short pants. I don't wear jewelry. I don't shave my
chest. Makeup is for women.
• Never
try to guess a woman's age or weight, not ever, not for any reason.
• The
ways that women dress and behave in front of men are every bit as much
instances of so-called sexual harassment as are the things that men do
in response.
• Never
talk to a woman about her husband.
• Ladies,
covering it up doesn't make it go away, it doesn't keep men from knowing
that it's there, and it certainly doesn't keep us from thinking about it.
We just try to pretend otherwise, in the presence of women, for our own
protection. Did you ever hear the statement "undressing her with
his eyes"? If that makes you uncomfortable, then maybe you should
try to avoid the presence of men.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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