The Big Green House

Thursday, July 31, 2003

 

If I had a rocket launcher

It�s that time of year again. The fucking Blue Angels are back, scaring the shit out of dogs and cats throughout Seattle, tying up traffic across the lake and around town, and endangering the lives of everyone in their flight path - which goes right over Science Manor, as a matter of fact � all so the dimwits of Lynnwood and Kent can be dazzled by the loudfastshiny. Between that and the hydroplane races, every simple-minded yutz from here to Vancouver will be out in force, sucking up the Rainier, getting third-degree sunburns, and inflicting their sugar-demented offspring on an already rattled public.

Man, I hate this bullshit with a passion. Something like this might have been appropriate 40 years ago, when the population in town was relatively small, but now it just doesn�t make any kind of sense at all. If you absolutely must do something this wasteful and stupid, do it out away from population centers, because while those guys are very good at what they do, they�re not immune to making mistakes.

Needless to say, Science Girl, Lucy and I will be out of town for as much of the weekend as we can get away with.

bmarkey 7/31/2003 05:45:00 PM