Bacon with Jefferson

Obama for President

I became aware of politics the fall of 1988 during the Bush/Dukakis presidential race. I've never known anyone in the White House except a Bush or a Clinton. I remember how terrible I felt in 1994 when the rise of the moral majority intermixed with a Clinton backlash to create a perfect storm. I watched with sadness and disgust as the national conversation moved from making America a better place by arguing between big and small government to arguing between sin and social equality. Truly, the mesmerization of an entire country by fucked up celebrities that continues today started with if it was adulterous to get a blow job by your subordinate while smoking a Cuban cigar and jabbering about Russian vodkas with Boris Yeltsin. (It is, but doing any two of three isn't.)

Little did we know that the worst was yet to come.

Wii Sit?

Nintendo... WTF! I mean the Wii Fit sounds great and I will probably buy one but seriously... A sitting contest?! It's not even exercise! It's the Wiithinkyou'retoofuckinglazytodoanythingelse Fit.

Happy Birthday!

Today is Sir Francis Bacon's 447th birthday.

You want what with who?

I suppose before I jump into the deep end of giving a big fuck you to the MSM (especially you Rupert) I should explain what the hell this blog is about.

The title comes from a mash-up of Francis Bacon, Thomas Jefferson and Rene Descartes. Three people on the short list of the greatest achievements for human evolution, knowledge and culture. It was Bacon and Descartes who were at the forefront of the Age of Reason with Bacon creating the scientific method and Descartes being the father of modern philosophy and mathematics. It was Jefferson who grew up in the Age of Enlightenment that took the fruit of their labor and helped create the best form of human government seen to date.

One theme of this blog will be my research of them, their times and how it relates to now. It fascinates me that they all refused to be pigeon-holed and were eminently successful. For example, Jefferson was considered to be a horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author and inventor. Let alone the founder of the University of Virginia, third President of the United States and author of The Declaration of Independence. (As a side note, his VP after Burr shot Hamilton was George Clinton. Lucky for them that interns hadn't been invented yet.)

Beyond that, we'll just have to see.