The Ultimate Answer to Kings: Sometimes the Intertubz really creep me out.

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.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Sometimes the Intertubz really creep me out.

Landlady sent me a cartoon that would have been funny, if I'd known what it was talking about...

I hung onto it, swearing I'd try to learn what the hell "fourwhere" is. Now I know, and I wish I didn't.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'm guessing that if you go to fourwhere, it's supposed to open up to your location? I opened it and the map came up in the next county over, about 45 miles from me. I couldn't resist trying to hone in on our house in the forest. The county road was correct, but all of the forest service roads were numbered wrong or missing entirely. So it looks like I'm still safe saying "First they have to find me".; September 30, 2011 at 4:57 PM
Anonymous said...: I think they were using FourWhere as a parody of FourSquare. FourSquare lets you "check in" using the GPS feature of your phone to tell everybody exactly where you are, when you're there, real time.

Don't you feel better now?; October 2, 2011 at 9:10 PM

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Why the hell did you scroll all the way down here?