Posted on 01/31/2015 4:50:31 PM PST by PJ-Comix
WORK?!
Maynard G. Krebs had an aversion to it and 28 year old Politico reporter Mike Elk seems to think too much of it is demanded of him. One big difference is that while Krebswas a free thinking spirit, Elk's solution is regimental union solidarity of a style that went out of date over 60 years ago. Sorry, Mike, but it is hard to picture you being beaten down by the Pinkerton police of the bosses or living on slave wages when you are well paid at Politico which, luckily for you, tolerates (and probably laughs at) your organized labor obsessions. To get an idea of just how laughably delusional Elk is as to how much is demanded of him, check out the hilarious quote for the ages that he has left us:
"I can’t work the kind of hours I did when I was 24."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
“You are old, father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?
“In my youth,” father William replied to his son,
“I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.”
“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before,
And you have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door
Pray what is the reason for that?”
“In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
“I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment one shilling a box
Allow me to sell you a couple?”
“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak
Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
“In my youth,” said his fater, “I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.”
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose
What made you so awfully clever?”
“I have answered three questions, and that is enough,”
Said his father. “Don’t give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs.
(By Carroll)
And let’s not forget Jack Williamson, who won a Hugo and a Nebula after he was 90.
My wife wanted to watch that new movie “Boyhood”, so I watched it with her, and I had kind of hoped it was going to be growing up through the eyes of a boy, which might be interesting.
Instead, it was growing up through the eyes of a liberal family structure. I hated it.
I told my wife that, a key ingredient that was missing was the trauma, actually physical trauma that comes with growing up. Nearly every single kid I know had at least one injury to the face, head, or limbs that required a trip to the emergency room and stitches or a cast.
We all experienced those things, but they were completely absent. I have always thought they were a critical part of growing up, learning your boundaries.
I sometimes say to people I know that, it is a miracle any of us reach the age of thirty (as you seem to feel as well). I drove drunk once and scared the hell out of a woman I cared for that I was on a date with, and I never did it again after that. But I survived doing that stupidity, I didn’t kill her or someone else, or scar my life. I was lucky.
I am not stupid, I am just flawed, which expresses itself in bouts of apparent stupidity, usually when alcohol is involved. And I have been blessed to have survived and not hurt anyone else.
I agree with chrisser...that is a great outlook. I think it is true, but I think it is also true that God is essentially old as well!
I gotta laugh at this kid! When my company, (a body stamping plant and tier I supplier to the auto industry) was doing well, many of our press shop and assembly dept. workers would put in 12 hours, 7 days a week slinging steel.......I don’t know how they did it.
I grew up on a cattle ranch and would bet my life savings that I worked more hours before I was 18 than he’s worked in his entire life. At 57 I still work more than this sissy boy
dear hartley,
Ummmmmm, for someone that has read a lot of the, now, ‘old school’ SF, including Asimov, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, and Heinlein, I plead ‘guilty’ on the charge of forgetting Mr. Williamson.
Yea, it sucks when everything is in place and you get to do it all over again.
I’ll bet that’s the last time you or your crew made that mistake!
:^)
LOL...that old American Indian saying about never stepping in the same stream twice...
Adulthood has been eliminated — at 28, you go immediately and directly from being listed as a dependent on your parent’s health care insurance to over-the-hill.
Lol
bookmark
Late to the party, BUT — I’m 52, and I’m still working sets of 12-hour day shifts alternating, after days-long periods of rest, with 12-hour-night shifts. Even though it’s a computer job, those long shifts can exhaust me, but I’m not whining that I cannot do the kind of work that I did at 33, when I began this job.
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