Dehydrated Horse Penis Walking Stick

Here are three pictures I found when I google image searched "Dehydrated Horse Penis Walking Stick".


Who would have thought these three pictures had anything in common. Unfortunately, I never found found what I was looking for... until I changed it to "dehydrated bull penis walking stick"

Out of the mouth of babes

This is a story that a five-year old French boy told me... in English.

"Do you know the juifs?" He asked me. Juif is French for Jew.
"Yes" I said.
"The juifs were in prison."
"I know," I replied, "but it wasn't because they did something wrong, it was because the leaders of the government made a bad choice."
Then he told me this story. "The daddy of Mamina (Mamina is his grandma) was a... a juif. And he was in prison but then someone said to him, come come, and he goed and he... um... escaped from prison. That's good huh."
"Yep, pretty good." I affirmed.
And then he added as an after thought. "But now he's dead anyway."

You are a wise, wise man young squire.

Morals won't keep me warm in winter.

A friend of mine was telling me how happy he is about some recent progressive trends in American society. We talked about the societal shift in America from being what one might call (euphemistically) a puritan society with stringent morals, to a morally liberated society where the only thing that isn't OK is to think that something is not OK. The major problem with morals is that they impose a sense of "rightness" or "wrongness" that can be utterly confusing. This is because, believe it or not, there is no universally accepted idea of right and wrong. In fact the terms "right" and "wrong" are merely abstract ideas like "love" and "hope"... but even worse. At least Love produces data. Love can be measured in terms of chemical reactions in the brain, increased heart rate or other physical responses. But right and wrong are based totally on personal belief and faith that a certain action or outcome is a "good" while another is "bad". We used to rely on superstition and and fear to give us a standard of right and wrong that while not universal, shared many similarities among the worlds superstitions. Fortunately increased availability of "education" has elevated scientific thought (to it's proper place as Lord and Savior) and helped us to let go of these cumbersome superstitions.

Of course it's an ongoing process and some of us are (understandably) having a hard time completely letting go of our morals. However, the fact remains that there is no universal laws by which one can "prove" scientifically that slavery is wrong or that the holocaust was either good or bad, so I think it's only a matter of time before we stop clinging to our outdated traditions and step out into the brave new world where it won't matter if we are a man or a woman... because even a woman (with all her frailty and physical inadequacy) can still give a slave orders.