Author Archives: The Happy Pessimist

A Rose by Any Other Name Would be an Onion

The legislature of the State of Washington, no doubt totally stoned pursuant to their recent legalization of marijuana (pot, maryjane, reefer, Maui wowie, etc.), has just enacted a bill requiring the use of gender neutral language in all official documents. For example, “chairman” must now be changed to “chairperson.” This will undoubtedly lead to some […]

Rock a Bye-Bye Baby

We’re running out of people. National fertility rates have dropped below the population sustaining level of 2.1 children per woman in virtually every significant ethnic group except for the Indians (the nyaayyaya variety, not the woo-woo-woo variety). There are a variety of causes adduced by experts, but the consensus is that the chief culprits are the […]

Make War, Not Love

We live in a “gotcha” world. Gotcha journalism. Gotcha taxes. Gotcha securities law. And where does this mentality come from? From too many lawyers. Fortunately, they have over-reproduced. Newly hatched legals cannot find jobs, and we can hope that, like starving lemmings, they will fling themselves over conveniently located cliffs into the raging sea below. But […]

Hang Gliding off the Fiscal Cliff

Government spending is plummeting! Taxes are rising! Businesses are failing! The workforce is shrinking! Good. The world economy produces as much garbage as useful stuff. What businesses are collapsing? Twinky manufacturers. Blackberry, the manufacturer of the stupid smartphone. Banks run by gullible idiots whose mantra when talking to credit default swap salesmen is “If I don’t understand […]