To Fatten Up

Katrinka is such a good cook that sometimes I accuse her of trying to fatten me up for market and suggest that she might be in some secret cult of cannibalism. Then I think about the phrase "to fatten up." I've seen cattle at stock shows in hometown Fort Worth, also known as Cowtown, that are huge and they don't look huge with fat. They look huge with muscle. Giant shoulder and thigh and rump muscles come to mind. But then I talked to a cattle man about it. He said they fatten them up before they're going to market because if they start doing it early, they have to spend more on feed for their whole lives. And he said that they do have lots more muscle but they have more fat too and that's what makes their meat good to eat. And how do they build muscle when they're just standing around? Beef cattle have been bread, he said, to put on muscle and they're given feed that encourages that as well. So remembering back on that, since I have not been bred to gain more muscle, the more I eat, I wonder if I'd taste better bigger or not. I know where I could get an opinion. Cannibalism has about vanished in Papua here in Indonesia, but a woman who's been there for decades as a Christian missionary said that you can get stories from some of the seniors about the good old days. One told her and her husband how he'd prepare them, demonstrated with an air knife how he'd slice the meat off their arms and legs and so forth. 

One of My Disorders

I don't have dyslexia, a reading disorder. I have dysgraphia, a writing disorder. I frequently switch letters when writing on a keyboard and have to go back and correct. I esek a dsygrahpia ideniyt rgoup os ew cna demadn speical treatmetn. 

Gaia Purging

US Gov fighting against, muzzling climate science - and they're winning.

Climate change - very big and fast moving - Tim Flannery, chief councillor of Climate Council Australia 

In short, the human race is doing what it can on many fronts to hasten our demise and devastate the biosphere. World suicide on the march. But it's only our world which is a small one. Maybe it's just mother Gaia deciding to fast and purge this contamination so she can get well and flower again which she can do - over and over. We're working on impeding that with WSC plans to leave massive amounts of unchecked radition  behind.

Nuclear Arms race with Russia - the engines are reving up

A disaasterous decision to back out of the landmark agreement between Reagan and Gorbochof. Presidents should not be able to tear up treaties so easily that needed 2/3 vote to pass. The World Suicide Club celebrates.

Noam Chomsky

Republican Party dedicated to destroying the earth - Youtube. Obviously from before the 2016 election. This is a snippet from a longer talk. - thanks Noe Anna Bonas - I've long held that the dedication to destroying the biosphere for humans and much other life is a the main goal of the human race, far more inclusive than the Republican Party in the US. They've just been more gung ho. 

Wildfires in the Arctice etc

Unprecidented on this scale

Scientific concensus - no doubt human activity have been the cause - Jonathan Watts

Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months

Galungan review

(following up from yeterday's post) I walked over to the temple with my pejati offering and there were hardly any people there and no one in the dunking pouring water over me area.