The Ultimate Answer to Kings: Will somebody please tell me...

They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means "The Ultimate Argument of Kings," and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. "We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it's about: You'll do as I say or I'll send my goons to kill you."

I thought about that for a long time. If there's an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I've got bullets - he's got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that's not going to happen. So if there's an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain't bullets.

It finally came to me - and that's when I left the city, abandoned a goodly percentage of my goods, and gave all that was behind me a good, stiff Randian Shrug.

The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Will somebody please tell me...

Why are so many people clicking on my blog to look at a picture of the Nissan Cube? Why would anyone ever want to do that?

Look at the car, that is - not visit the blog, which is a very fine and potentially enlightening thing to do. 8^}

4 comments:

The Grey Lady said...: Dang, you made me look....; April 11, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Sucker I am, I l00ked also. :-); April 11, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Anonymous said...: I was half expecting to be Rick-rolled. And yeah, it's butt-ugly.; April 11, 2011 at 7:22 PM
KurtP said...: I made a post about the Scion saying that it proved there were gay genes in the general public.

but no one glomed on like your post.
Enjoy the linkey-love,; April 11, 2011 at 11:16 PM