the-experience

I’m probably going to go to hell for this rilly rude and tasteless bit. But I was compelled to do it. With apologies to Frank Zappa.

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Now, read the following carefully. This is the same story reported by three papers:

Kingston Daily Freeman

05/02/2008-
Five men charged in assault on mentally handicapped teen

LIVINGSTON - Three Dutchess County men and two from Columbia County have been charged in connection with an incident in which a mentally handicapped teenage girl was attacked with a stun gun and sexually abused, state police said on Friday.

Arrested in the case were Ben G. Ezzell, 22, Eric S. Coons, 21, and Gerald J. Moore, 21, all of Red Hook; and Joseph Wenk, 28, and David J. Bocchino, 23, both of Livingston, police said.

Troopers at the Livingston barracks said the five men were arrested on Thursday after a monthlong investigation that stemmed from a March 14 incident.

At a party that day, the teenage girl took her clothes off, was menaced with a stun gun by one of the suspects and engaged in sexual contact with another, police said.

They did not say where the party took place.

Police said Ezzell had sexual contact with the girl and was charged with committing a criminal sexual act, a felony, and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person(not a minor-a person), a misdemeanor.

Wenk, who police allege used the stun gun, was charged with misdemeanor possession of a weapon, menacing and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person.

Moore, Coons and Bocchino were charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent person, police said.

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Poughkeepsie Journal

May 3, 2008-

Five men charged in alleged assault on handicapped woman

Three men from Red Hook and two from Columbia County have been charged with various crimes stemming from an incident with a mentally handicapped woman in March, state police at Livingston said today.

Ben G. Ezzell, 22, of Red Hook, was charged with criminal sexual act in the second-degree, a felony, and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person, a misdemeanor. Two other men from Red Hook and two from Livingston were charged with misdemeanors in connection with the incident. The Journal typically does not print the names of those charged with misdemeanors.

State police said the mentally handicapped woman was the victim of sexual acts by Ezzell and was injured by another man with a stun gun during a party in Livingston March 14.

Ezzell was arraigned Friday in Livingston Town Justice Court and remanded to the Columbia County Jail on $20,000 bail.

All of the defendants are due in court to answer the charges Thursday.

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Albany Times-Union

Man accused of sex with mentally disabled teen
Sunday, May 4, 2008-

LIVINGSTON [NY]- A Red Hook man is charged with engaging in sex with a mentally disabled teenager who had disrobed at a party, State Police in Columbia County said. Another man is charged with menacing the young woman with an illegal stun gun, troopers said. Three other men face charges related to the March 14 incident.(this is part of the story-the complete story cost $2 to read)

Same story, differing treatments. Now the Journal is the most straightforward of the three, reporting the facts of the situation, the who, what, and where, and assigning appropriate importance to same. The alleged victim was from what I know, an 18 year old, technically a teenager, at least in years. Good. Now we can stop shipping them off to Iraq: hay, they’re Teenagers the MEDIA says so! Can’t have children fighting in wars, now can we?

You see the Times Journal Money Shot, really isn’t that bad, but the headline is lacking ‘Mentally Diasbled Teen’ ramps up that Menace2Society cred, there and catches the eye. Pure Tittilation. But the Yellow Journaliste Champ, is the humble Kingston Freeman, which ups the ante by implying a gang rape in it’s headline. Note that of the three, the Freeman gives you a handy guide to all the alleged perps in the case. The Journal apparently staffed by reporters with some sense of decorum, specifically tells you that it doesn’t bother with obviously minor stoof.

Now yr prolly wondering, ‘Gee, Comrade Duke the Otto of Yamamoto, or whatever yr "name" is this week, what’s tha deal?’. Glad you asked. One of the perps(ahem) in the case is the child of a co-worker. Eric S. Coons. Now the good old Freeman which I’ve employed as cage lining for my late Rabbit, Olivia, plays this like you have 5 rilly bad people here, and you should shun them, or whatever. They all did a BAD thing. They neglect to mention that Eric is at large, because all he got was an appearance ticket. ‘Show up in court on "x" date’. See, the plods rilly consider him dangerous.

The story as I heard it, from Eric’s dad, was that he was at this party, and the alleged victim, took off her clothes, and began offering sex to whomever, and two of his mates took her up on it. Eric was drunk at the time, and the girl was ‘butt ugly’ so he wasn’t having anything to do with it. He tried to call his dad to pick him up, but he got no signal on his mobile, and apparently there was no house ‘phone. He couldn’t drive-and in fact could not even get in his car, because he’d get a DUI(This is New York, remember, we put the ‘A’ in arsehole, as far as our laws are concerned.). So he was likely milling about, and was scooped up by the plods, charged with being in the wrong place at the right time. Or in between a rock and a hard place, your choice. Doesn’t matter, the Freeman could give a damn about his story, anyway, or any damage they do to him and his family.

Now the Social Darwinistes peep and chirp, ‘He shouldn’t've been there, or shouldn’t've been running with those boys’ or whatevar. Well, perhaps not, but he was, and bollocks to you. Can’t fix that now, can you? How much aggro should he cop to for a bad decision? And who are any of us to judge that, anyway? It’s rilly easy to be cavalier about someone else’s problems, just you mind the Karmic Surprise hiding around the corner for you, and don’t come whinging to me about it, eh?

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A trivia note: In NY sexual congress with a person of diminished mental capacity is always a crime, irregardless of the person’s age, or whether it was consensual on the ‘victim’s’ part. Conviction on this sort of charge gives you a free slot on the sex offender’s registry for 10 years at least(depending on severity of the crime, etc), prison/probation, and compulsory sex offender counselling for five years-during which you are allowed only one absence per year. You guess how many average citizens possess that particular bit of knowledge, and remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse!

Lawn Guyland Meat Pages!

Well, here it is May, and I’m just getting around to this Welcome to the wonderful world of my backlog, which is Ginormous. I have probably enough material to occupy me for years. Just the same, I’ve started it, and if I plug along, I should have the whole thing going within a couple of weeks. I’m using Album Shaper, which combines a lot of utility into one application, and really speeds the process of dealing with mass quantities of pictures. I plug this a LOT, but then it’s turned out to be one of the most useful apps I’ve come across in awhile.

I’ve also done a New England PHP gallery-just finished captioning that. Of course I’ll have to redo the beginning again, because, I guessed, as it’s a PHP app(Coppermine), it might use the same markup code that is used on the forums that I frequent. Turns out that was a good guess. That means I can do cool text formatting and stuff, and add links, too. That’s nice, because I can link into relevant stuff, like Kurumi’s Connecticut Highways pages, Google, and MSN maps, right from the Gallery. There will be a second part to that, too-Doug sent along the folder that has the rest of the photos from that roadtrip(I have it someplace, rilly); so you can expect that sometime in future.

I’m in the middle of a nasty family situation involving my mother, ex-wife and daughter. Now I know most folks could care less about my problems, and I’m okay with that. But it sets me to thinking, I’m dealing with and especially generating a lot of negative shite, lately. Maybe some people deserve it, and maybe they don’t, but I wonder who the hell am I to be the arbiter of such things. As amusing as it may be, sometimes, it’s taking a lot of time that I could be applying to more positive and constructive endevours that better serve my(and possibly others) interests. So effective immediately, I’m taking a negativity hiatus. Insofar as the blog goes, I’m leaning heavily towards removing the abusive entries; just leaving the road/show related entries; keeping subsequent entries in the same vein. Not that I’m going to change any prior opinions on anything, mind you. I’m just not going to deal with it in the same way.

UPD*TE. On careful review of the blog, I’ve decided to leave it just as it stands. I’m not going to dump any of the Character Assassination bits, because, what the hell, it’s reasonably decent writing, anyway, innit? I’m debating on whether to dump the ‘Tales of Calrog’ here, since I quite like those.

Just a couple of old things found beside the road in Chester, NY

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	A old Yellow YIELD sine at the corner of Lehigh Road and Greycourt Road near Chester NY.
	The advance warning for the overpass says 8′6"; but the older sign says 8′4". This one of four of this type of sign that I saw in the area. This particular one is on Greycourt Road.

Poor olde Bullis. He’s mad as hell, and he’s not gonna take it any more. He got srsly butthurt over my last entry, and now he’s gonna ‘kick my ass’. Yeah. Whatever.

I’m quaking in my boots, rilly, I am. He was rilly meen and called me an ‘asshole in the extreme’. As if I cared. If he had bothered to thumb back a bit in this blog, he might’ve found that out. I don’t have a category for ‘character assassination ‘ for nothing, you know. But we’re talking King DICK the St00pid, here-not the sharpest tool in the shed.

So anyway, he got all bent over the ‘Pedo’ bit, and tried to bounce it back on me. If it were untrue, why does it bother him so? Now I don’t know the details, and rilly don’t even care. It is, however, a useful tool to antagonise him with-and if Bullis had any sense, he’d realise that. But… Of course, twisted little mind, he thought I was making a claim, when in fact, I was repeating a rumour-one which couldn’t be confirmed, at that. This is the second time I’ve said that, and perhaps if I repeated it a few(thousand) times, it’d sink in. Whatever. Methinks King DICK protest too much.

He got so mad about my last entry, he fucked up in his response:

You posted the comments I made in response to a post about the license plate issue. You failed to mention that in your post, you made it sound as if in fact, you did own the vehicle. But didn’t want the officer to know that. Perhaps hoping to get out of a citation and impound.

You also said the plates were from NJ, not NY as you now claim on the blog. So why would the cop pull you over if the plates were from NY? That’s not his jurisdicition[sic] and the database would not have that information. So you lied, again.

Now I’ll concede in my MTR post I wasn’t entirely clear on the van ownership issue, I didn’t think I had to be. I described ‘my work van’, and that covers a lot of ground. He partially scores on that one, but not quite all the way because of the ambiguity of it. Then he again assumes I’m being dishonest, even though I mentioned in my last entry that that pisses me off. Guess that didn’t penetrate that thick skull. Then he assumes I was trying to ‘get out’ of something, when in point of fact, I didn’t know what I was into in the first place. I had no clue what the trooper could’ve done until my manager told me the next day. See that’s my dishonesty coming up there, I’m telling you I didn’t have a clue. Now I have to repeat this because King DICK didn’t glom onto it the first time: The copper decided to do a catch and release. Not me. He was being a helluva nice guy and avoiding a lot of aggro for everybody all around. I appreciated that.

Now for the second statement. I don’t know where that came from, and Bullis corrected that in a second post; but let’s dwell on it for a sec here, because it’s an example of his know-all attitude. Who besides the coppers know what sort of plate database they have access to? I don’t. You mean to tell me that a hot car from another state wouldn’t throw up a red flag on the computer? I’d have a guess that it would. There are laws and interstate compacts and suchlike that I have no clue about that could apply with something like this-I’m not qualified to speak on the issue(more dishonesty). But King DICK is, and he’s gonna tell you. I has a feeling that depending on His Majesty’s information about the coppers to get you out of a jam is rather like hiring Lionel Hutz as your attorney.

So anyway, Bullis corrected himself, then he added this bit in:

Either way, Mr. Slater is pissed off at a cop for NOT citing him or impounding the vehicle? Hell boy, in Ohio they wouldn’t give a shit. They’d impound the vehicle on the spot and make you walk. Every first week of the month, cars get impounded for invalid or unregistered plates. And you say I’m stoopid?

What? I made it painfully obvious that I was rather happy at avoiding the aggro. Did it again here, too. Note the addition of ‘boy’ in the mix. Bullis’ best shot at being insulting. It fails due to it’s obviousness, and of course, Bullis hasn’t a clue about my age(which is easy enough to find-even from this very blog). Then he tells me all about Ohio. Who cares. I live in New York. What they do in Ohio doesn’t mean a hill o’ beans to me.

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Okay, that being dispensed with, King Richard moves on to phase two of his ‘asskicking’: Insulting my website.

Having seen a few of the US 9W bridge photos, they suck!

Wow! Hey look, that’s a big hammer they use to break up the concrete with. Taken from 50 feet away so you can’t really see much of it. Brilliant. Then he shows some really huge rods that were driven into some rock. Wrong! They drill a hole dumbass. I mean, like sheeshe[sic] dude, at least get facts right.

BTW, this has been my personal opinion of your crappy photo shoot. At least I take the time to write my web pages. I don’t use shitty commercial crap.

Who the fuck made you God, Slater?

I’m hurt. Really, deeply and truly wounded to my core. Now that’s dishonest. I’ve said this before: I do The Experience and Fear and Loathing for my own entertainment. Now if someone else happens to like it, fine. If not, oh well. I’d do it just the same. Bullis, of course, missed that bit. But for his personal benefit, I’ll say right here, I could give a shite less what he thinks.

Except when I can antagonise him, anyway. Because King DICK the St00pid yet again displays his monumental ignorance of things. I use ’shitty commercial software’. Um no. People are likely ready to puke when they hear me say I use Linux, because I say it so many times. It’s as aggravating as a reformed smoker or alcoholic. My ’shitty commercial software’ is actually all free software. But you see, real men write their web pages. Because busting yr arse is like manly and shit. Using an ap that consolidates all sorts of useful functions in one place and produces a neat organised page is for pussies. As of the last time I visited, clicking some links on Bullis’ page leads you to Highway 404. The page he criticises doesn’t do that.

His Majesty also doesn’t realise that I can modify various parts of the programme to get specific results. I can change the CSS or add code, whatever. Depends on what I have a mind to do at a given time, and how much time I want to spend dicking around under the hood. I do write pages when it suits me, but I have an assload of photos to deal with, and anything that helps get content out is fine by me.

King DICK is also obviously blissfully unaware of the existence of open source software. The ap he criticises is Album Shaper, a spiffy little bit from Sourceforge that I’ve dribbled about before. I did up the Smilin’ John O’ Krakoff Wild West Extravaganza with that, as well as my latest show snaps. Now as you can see, I arranged Smiling John’s snaps by phases of the trip, and my show snaps by the groups that performed. Everything is available on a index page, and you can pick and choose as you like, and the link redunancy is excellent. That’s pretty good for free. Beats the hell outta clicking and getting a 404. Because I run Linux-ALL my software is open source, and any commercial ap that would even apply to a punter like me would be related to Windows emulation, which I just don’t need in the main.

Of course, King Dick’s code crunching is nothing new under the sun. Quite a few of my pages use the same coding scheme as his. Of course, I add in a background, and dick around with the CSS a bit more so there’s some variety, and I can establish a theme appropriate to the content of the page. Like, say, this show page for the All Grown Up After Party. Of course, not having Winders, I don’t use Notepad, I use the shitty [non]commercial programme Quanta, which itself has numerous features that I’ve come to know and love.

So here I am, all asskicked and stuff, I suppose, humbled by the Geat and Wise Bullis. He said that I should post proof of his St00pidity, but I just couldn’t manage it. Poor me. I’m gonna go listen to Linkin Park.

Before we proceed to mash up someone’s character, don’t forget to nip by my latest mind breaking photo exhibit on the US 9W Highland bridge rebuild! It’s top ho and spiffing, and fun for the whole family!

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Right. MTR denizens know all too well the subject of tonite’s tirade: king Richard the St00pid: AKA Richard Bullis, alleged pedophile(his actual claim to fame) and ‘Truck Drivin’ Man’. The latter is dubious-I personally think the only Truck Bullis evar drove had ‘Tonka’ stencilled on the side. That nonwithstanding, he never forgets to make mention of it in nearly every post he’s ever written since the dawn of time. Bullis predates me on Usenet, and possibly even MTR. He’s been around a long time.

Having been around Usenet for so long, you think he’d gain some wisdom. But if that were the case, I wouldn’t be writing about him here, now would I? Nope, Bullis was as dumb as a box of rocks when I first signed on to Usenet in ‘97, and remains so to this very day. He was a bit more hated back in the day, having apparently posted CP on his Geocities website-I never saw it, so I can’t confirm it. These days he’s tolerated, having been superceded by other parties much more egregious than he. Bullis isn’t a troll or a racist, he’s just really, really stupid. And like other people who don’t have too much on the ball, he’s just too damn brick wall stupid to realise what a complete idiot he is.

He’s compelled to comment on things he has absolutely no clue about, therein lies his entertainment value. He’ll chime in on a thread, and it’s immediately obvious that he hasn’t been reading the posts thoroughly, if at all. To wit: I post a bit about my encounter with licence plate reading cameras on police cars. My work van had a bogus plate-it was suspended because DMV cocked up and never noted that it was transferred from an older(now dead) van my company owned. Since the older van is departed-literally, there’s no insurance, so you have a plate belonging to a vehicle with no insurance. In NYS if you let your insurance lapse, your actual licence plate is considered invalid for the amount of time the insurance had lapsed. You can’t drive a vehicle with that plate-even if it’s a completely different vehicle. Well, I got nabbed on that on the Thruway. I related the tale, noting how the State Policeman was pretty cool about it. He figured I didn’t own the vehicle, and wasn’t going to give me any aggro because the situation was not my responsibility-that was on his initiative-which I noted in my story, but perhaps not clearly enoughfor King St00pid

Well, Bullis, knowing all, responds to this:

You should have been honest up front. ‘Yes sir I do own the vehicle. The DMV has not yet sent me the paperwork and obviously they have not recorded that information in the system.’

Now first off, you have this fuckwit assuming out of the bag that I was being dishonest. He doesn’t know me from Adam. That pisses me off. He doesn’t know how long I’ve been driving the van(a 2k6 Dodge Sprinter), or if I own it, or even what sort of concern employs me-although I’ve mentioned the latter from time to time, at least once in response to him. Now I mentioned that the copper could have cited me and impounded the van because I was driving on suspended plates, again his ignorance comes to the fore, and he starts dribbling about what I would say to a judge in traffic court. Again, he accuses me of dishonesty:

[Y]ou could be found guilty anyway because you knew the plates weren’t valid. At which time you produce the paperwork stating that the license fees had been paid for properly.

I wouldn’t be ‘found guilty’ of anything, I don’t own the van, and the plates are not my responsibility. My company wasn’t even aware the plates were suspended until that very day, after I called my manager to advise him of the fact-the van was re-registered last July with the bogus plates on it, and DMV even missed it then. It didn’t matter if fees were paid out the wazoo, because the plates were associated with an uninsured vehicle. NY is just freakish like that. And then he says that I should ‘carry the paperwork in the vehicle for proof’. Of what? I carry the standard paperwork, registry and proof of insurance, as I do in my car. It would be meaningless. Now personally, I think my company should have just gotten new plates for the van, and this would have been avoided, but they opted to transfer an old set of plates. Maybe it was cheaper, who knows?

The Bullis-Fest of St00pid continued into another thread: Someone was asking about the alphanumeric county highway system in Michigan. A wise poster referred them to Chris Bessert’s site, which is pretty authoritative on all things M-highway related. Turns out the scheme was cooked up by the state; but the onus was on the counties to implement and administer the system. Some did, some didn’t, so the results were mixed, and the initiative fell by the way. Another poster commented on California County Highways, which use a similar organised numbering scheme(but the State wasn’t involved with that), and pretty much ended up with the same results. Into this tread that provided useful and relevant information, charges Bullis:

In Wisconsin, they play ‘alphabet soup’ in the counties. Identifying county highways is purely voluntary in most states.

He’s a real Hemlock Stones, innit he? A veritable fountain of knowledge. Nobody was asking about Wisconsin, anyway. Just piping up to pipe up. Never mind that Virginia and Missouri ‘county highways’ are actually secondary state roads, as are some NJ ‘county highways’. But that’s old St00pid for ya, providing consistent entertainment for us all on MTR and elsewhere for ovar 10 years. He actually has a website now, featuring road pictures. Photo quality is meh, and the design looks like something from 1998. Most of the thumbnail linx lead to Highway 404. Typical. Prolly by 2016 he may figure out how to jazz it up a bit, but I’m not holding my breath.

Now HB Elkins is a bit agrrivated that I posted a ‘Tale of Calrog’ on MTR. Technically, it breaks the Cone of Silence, but then again it doesn’t. I’ve done 4 previous ones, and CalBog has yet to respond to any of them. I don’t think he can. There have been responses to it-mostly amusement at the ‘dick melanoma’ bit. Not a word from CalBog.

Speakin’ of which, he’s still rolling like he always does, pimping his ‘operation coordinates’ every time he does another picture,  or pimping reruns and trying to tie them into something relevant, or finding someone he percieves as weaker than he to smear. This time, it’s Sherman Cahal. Sherman posted an upd*te to his site on MTR, and Eric[a] the Powar Flee jumps in. Then it’s CalBog with a dis of the ‘East Coast’. Eric[a] returns the volley with something rude and homophobic. Besides being geograpgically impaired-last I czeched, Kentucky is a good ways from the Atlantic, these two srsly lack any creativity.

It’s always the same thing over and over. Why do they care anything about Sherman’s sexuality? It’s really none of their business. Hell, if I’m gonna lay a dis on CalBog, I make shit up. I could care less about his personal life. My essential message of ‘you’re a stupid and hapless person’ comes through loud and clear, and I come up with a piece of writing that stands on it’s own merits in the bargain.

Besides roadgeeking, I have a couple of other interests: and quite a few online and IRL friends who have nothing whatsoever to do with roads. One of my favourite online haunts is Papaskin.com, where we talk about various and sundry things of interest to or related to the Traditional Skinhead community. Just to nip it in the bud-it’s not the Nazi skins that the TeeVee so adores(we call them boneheads). Except among ourselves, we’re virtually invisible. I can live with that. Just don’t call me a Nazi.

Now one of the guys on the forums lives in Spain, and he travels quite a lot, I asked him to send on some snaps from out his way, and he obliged me with a few, and I thought I’d share them here. He also gave me a few details about himself, which follow:

Hello Charles,

here are some pics. Some are not in high quality but in my eyes still powerful.
I wrote comments underneath the pics, was easier for me. You can cut it off I think.

My real name is Niels, 33 yrs old. I’m from the former GDR(German Democratic Republic), the socialism part of Germany. That´s why I hate commies like Nazis.
I work and live abroad for 10 years now and settled down in Spain. I worked in England, Greece, Belgium, Austria and Spain. I found my love in spain, became father of a little boy(15mth) and the sunny days are unbeatable. A funny thing for me, hard to take for some of my family, is, my girl is from Poland, I’m from Germany and our son is Spanish by birth. So we live the way the European Union tries to setup with it countries. Even more funny is that some people judging me as a nazi because of my skinhead life, but as you look at my private life it´s just bollocks, I mean a nazi with a three nation family(incl. “enemy” Poland) would make it straight into a concentration camp in Nazi times. But the leftwing are not that clever like they try to make you believe. Fuck them anyway.

I didn’t cut off the captions-you can see them when you click to enlarge the snap.

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Well, I found out something fun. I was checking my MySpace, and I’d messaged So Unloved that the snaps I did Saturday night were posted. They message me back: ‘we can’t get to them-the link doesn’t open’. I try the link, and whaddaya know, I get a page showing that the link is disabled. Might be Spam or cooties, or whatevar. So, I check my GaySpace blog, and a bulletin I posted-all with the same link, all with the same result. Hmmm. Just for fun I try posting another 50megs(my main server) link in my blog, and test it-with the same result. Hmmm. Then I try a Topcities link, and hot damn, it works like a champ. Now whaddaya think of that?

I’ve used MySpace minimally, and do very little advertising of my site. Practically none, in fact. So I guess that my 50megs site must be on some sort of blacklist, for whatever reason, and that’s not likely MySpace’s doing. It’s not a big deal, since the workaround is to do a bounce page off one of my other servers that refers people to the desired 50megs page. Just the same; I wonder what’s the deal, mama?

Operation ‘Starve the Troll’ is off to a semi-rocky start, but I think over the long term, it is going to work. It’s hard to resist the temptation to respond to CalBog on MTR-especially when he posts shite like this:

Hi Viatologists,

As you may know, the Worldwide Highway Library is the first to provide a book on Kentucky’s highways ( link to non-selling Lulu book ). Its content covers Kentucky’s Interstates, State and Federal Routes in several state regions: northeastern tier, Louisville and Bowling Green.

Can someone please purchase the book for H.B. "Millennium Man" Elkins? Since his income is only ~$18K per year, he has to budget his income for his <$60K home. (Charles, please don’t write him a check… We know how that would turn out.)

In other news, Millennium Man Hayes also bought a pair of flashy aluminum pants in anticipation of the 21st century. He still awaits his rapture pod. I recommend he not hold his breath and instead take a look at the most complete collection of Kentucky highway photographs and videos on the Internet
(CalBog spam link BALEETED)

Actually, the last paragraph, to give the devil his due, actually borders on wit, a rarity for CalBog, and almost surely an accident. Of course, it’s pretty goddam insulting to H.B.; whom I’ve met a couple of times, and as is usual with people whom CalBog chooses to smear, is actually a decent person(myself excepted, of course). Also as usual, in the Roadgeek community, and IRL, H.B. amounts to more before breakfast than CalBog will his entire life. Any three pages of Millenium Highways blows the doors off of c*lr*g.c*m in terms of content-and any page on the site stomps a mudhole in CalBog insofar as quality goes. Of course, quality and accuracy are alien to CalBog, anyway; he still insists on perping the ‘bad cheque’ myth, even though it’s false. What a surprise.

Also in the ’surprise department’ is this bit of grandiose CalBoggery:

Hi Viatologists,

The biggest players in the game use geographic coordinates for online maps, photographs and videos. The strides that the Worldwide Highway Library (WHL), Google, and Microsoft have brought an inventive platform where you can zoom directly onto your point-of-interest w/in a few metres of accuracy.

Scientifically speaking, why are geographic coordinates so useful? Answer is, it can help you understand the environment surrounding the freeway. For example, the lower the latititude, the higher the sun reaches the sky in mid summer months. This can be useful in your travels if you plan to hike, swim or have equal shifts of daylight and sunlight. For example, the 34th parallel rests in Los Angeles and makes beachtime fun a possibility. That said, highways like Interstate 5, US Federal Route 101 or California State Route 1 would become the recommended conduits. Those interested in weather can also see coordinates and predict low an high pressure belts, ultimately affecting the plans for vacation if outdoor activities are a must. That said, this knowledge can help you adjust driving patterns if you expect Tule fogs, wind storms or precipitation.

As you can see, geographic coordinates tie into viatology very well. It gets you to where you want w/ exact precision. The WHL has taken great strides over the past few weeks to familiarise you w/ the relative location of highway hotspots, in respect to the equator and the Greenwich line. Take for example California State Route 46:

(A direct link to his snap of CA 46-a desperate attempt to solicit site hits. c*lr*g.c*m’s Alexa Rating is 4 029 323- down from the 3 millions it was a couple of months ago)

Here, you catch a glimpse of the Central Valley and nearby coastal ranges.

1950s movie buffs may remember this location since Jimmy Dean crashed and subsequently died here in a bad automobile accident. As you can see, the inclusion of geographic coordinates are useful in more than one application.

It’s technologies like this that put the WHL at the forefront of viatology. The days of posting photographs only and personal feelings of the author are becoming passé. While Microsoft and Google have excellent maps, their captures of the road by way of video or photograph cannot compete w/ the greatest viatology website on the planet: the WHL!

Now this is a a glutton’s feast of CalBoggery, here. You get all the fail that you’d expect from Cal: a grandiose comparison to sites and services that are streets ahead of anything he could come up with even on a good day; a rerun link, since his upd*te-fu is very weak-his priority seems to be finding new ways to make his site even less useful and accurate than before. Claims that he’s doing ’scientific’ work-interesting, since most ’scientists’ have a lot more on their resumes than part-time attendance at 4 community colleges; introduction of something completely unrelated to the topic at hand, in an attempt to establish the relevance of his site.

Now, on the last point, the snap of CA 46 CalBog links to is actually near the historic event he relates to in the above emision. The photo is half decent, too. That’s because someone else shot it.  Couldn’t expect Cal to get it right all by himself, now could you? James Dean did indeed die at the junction; and there are a couple of memorials to him in the area. Neither of which are featured on c*lr*g.c*m, he can try to exploit the tragedy, but always fails to provide a good background to stimulate interest-another hallmark of fail for him. What’s even more amusing is that CalBog misses an opportunity in this post to emit a ‘Federal Route’ peeb. After all, CA 46 in that section was once a part of US 466. If olde Cal were paying attention, he coulda dribbled that in for X-tra annoyance. Now, on the page itself, he does identify the highway’s former designation: but not in his typical CalBoggian way. That’s right kids: he wrotes the old designation as ‘US-466′ not ‘Federal Route 466′.  Sorry, I had to  check.

Finally, Cal wraps it all up wth more grandiosity. But this is different than before. CalBog Fail fans may note that Cal is no longer just ‘competing’ against ‘inferior regional websites’. Oh, no, he’s taking on the big boys and whuppin they ass. Right. And I’m the Queen Mum(after whom the QEW in Ontario is named, contrary to an earlier CalBog emision). But that’s what makes CalBog so entertaining. If ‘Operation Starve The Troll’ starts succeding-which, I actually think it is-because even the concept is worrying to CalBog, you can expect a lot more of this kind of stuff.

Well, I’m a happy camper. My favourite club reopened Saturday after a bout with the Fire Inspector back in February. After pouring in an undisclosed amount of $ to bring the space up to code, the Meatlocker was back in business again. Good thing, too. I was starting to have withdrawal symptoms. Going to shows is fun, don’t get me wrong, but there are places I like better than others, and The Meatlocker tops the list(followed by Asbury Lanes, or any place in Asbury Park NJ)

This time around, I got a nice surprise-the bill wasn’t just local bands. There was So Unloved from San Antonio-who basically just smoked throughout their set, and provided the best pictures of the evening. The picture you see at left is of CeCe, a little short girl, who was playing the living snot out of her guitar. That snap, I think, is the best I’ve taken at a show to date.

More and more, it seems there are bands consisting of people who are my age. This time it was Final Conflict from Long Beach, CA; Now when ya start heading toward 50, you may find yrself a little fatter, and a little slower. Unless you’re a punk. I had a good bit of fun trying to keep up with Tim Sawyer, the group’s vocalist, who was all over the place. I kind of like that, a band that moves a lot tends to energise me as well. Because of aggro from the Town of Montclair, you can’t drink in The Meatlocker anymore(I’m sure they just wish we would go away, as The Meatlocker is in an otherwise yuppie section), and even though I like to drink at shows, I don’t like to get hammered out of my mind, because I want to have my wits about me for photography, so basically I get high off the energy of the bands.

Of course, shows are not just about music. I’ve gotten to know some folks in the scene, and it’s just as much about visiting and networking as it is anything else. The Meatlocker has a fair crowd of regulars-I’m one of em-so there’s a good bit of ‘Hello’ and ‘How d’ya do’ and catching up on who’s involved w/what. It’s gotten to be like a second family.

Here are the pictures of the show if you are so inclined to peruse them.

There is a movement afoot on MTR to ignore CalBog’s prenumbral emisions. Unlike other times, this time, people seem serious. I’m in on this, too, I’ll make no posts on MTR responding to his CalBoggery. Here at The Experience, it’s another ballgame. I said on MTR that the CalBoggery would increase, at least for a time if CalBog got no responses. Here are the first salvos of absurdity:

Hi Viatologists,

Yes, those subject terms look quite similar… They’re so similar that my viewer logs show referrer-links for both terms.

The former term, viatology, has been coined to encompass the study of roads. The latter is the name of a music album by an Alternative Rock band named Pearl Jam. (Those familiar w/ the 1990s scene may remember Pearl Jam’s smooth(?!) hits, e.g., “Who You Are” and “Better Man”.)

Quite frankly, the Calrog.com Worldwide Highway Library would trump any success that Pearl Jam could ever create in viatology, whereas the well-known website would not fare well in a redo of Vitalogy

Now, don’t look for a new Baskin Robbins flavour called ‘WHL’ anytime soon, but then again, don’t expect Mr Vedder to pick up the art of capturing high-quality roadside media from three continents.

The definition of ‘Viatology’(per CalBog) Viatology is a scientific study of highways; the term was coined by Carl Rogers(speaking of himself in the third person) in August 2007 after many years of travel into several countries and the inherent lack of a scientific term to discuss what he and fellow cohorts engaged. Prior to the development of this term, vernacular terms like ‘road scholar’ or "roadgeek" were commonplace in small caucasian groups of North America.

So I guess CalBog is the Eddie Vetter of Roadgeeks? Or is that Viatology, or Viagratology? Somehow I can’t imagine hundreds or even tens of people Googling ‘Viatology’. Now if you Google ‘Vitalogy’, you get a zillion linx related to the Pearl Jam album, and no CalBog in sight. So, obviously, that’s a lie. Perhaps if you misspelt ‘Vitalogy’, you’d accidentally end up at CalBog’s little mess on the web, sorry for you. I like how he implies that ‘viatology’ has superceded tacky ‘unscientific’ terms like ‘roads scholar’ and ‘roadgeek’. Dunno about anyone else, but what I do hardly qualifies as ’science’ in any wise; and there’s a perfectly good term for it. It’s called a ‘hobby’. Incidentally, as a descriptive term, ‘roadgeek’ is alive and well, thanks for asking.
‘WHL’ also fails to produce immediate CalBoggery, rather it produces the goddam hockies, a damn sight better deal, if you ask me. Now if ya Google Viatology, you get the CalBog definition(copypasta’d above), and a couple of WTF posts on MTR, but still no direct link to the Whirled Highway Liberry, oddly enough, I was able to access the link to the definition from Thunderbird(the newsreader named after a cheap wine), though this particular ISP is prone to be BANanhammared. CalBog is lifting the BANanahammar on occcasion, when he posts new stuff, because he knows I steal his shite for mockery. Any attention is good attention to him, I guess. The problem may come in as I stop responding on MTR in toto, and take it all to the blog, including linx that don’t have anything to do with c*lr*g.c*m, allowing you to get yr laughs, while denying him site revenue.

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Then there’s this one from a thread on Google Street View:

The Worldwide Highway Library is simply better than Google Maps… With videos and WHL-360s from five countries and two continents, our skilled professionals help deliver content before the Internet giant ever will. Need proof? We have coverage of underwater tunnels, Xi’an crossroads and border crossings. Yeah. With our innovative accomplishments and trend-setting captures, it’s no wonder that the Googlebot scours WHL content fifteen minutes after I publicly announce things.

He’s made this claim before. I really hope somebody at Google reads that thread, they’ll piss themselves with laughter. There’s not much to say here. This is so over the top, it’s either an obvious troll, or an indicator of severe mental illness.

A little comic based on a King Missile song. It’s not the WHOLE song, which would make for a srsly huge comic, but it’s enough of it to make the pernt, I say.

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Hay, kids it’s time for more of the MTR sludge you know and love, dished out by yours truly!

I suggested reconsideration of a moderated newsgroup, and right now, the polling is running slightly in favour of the ‘this idea sucks dog bollocks’ consensus. The discussion is actually pretty urbane, with a lot of posters pointing out issues of practicality of modeating the group, what would happen if personalities got involved in it, and so on.Of course, in the latter consideration, Tim Brown just had to take a swipe at Adam Prince re their IRC feud. Note to Tim: Concentrate on your urban photography, which you do well, and get the fuck over it.

I suggersted this, in part, because my S/N ratio has been the suck lately, and there’s been a world of spam on the group. It looks like the solution to the former is for me to police myself, and the latter is workin the killfile and letting Optimum know about the spammers. I also has this blog, and Drama entries take up very little space; so I’ll limit the call and response to this forum.

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Okay, so Top of the Pops this week goes to CalBog with his Dick CalBog, Publick DICK entry OT: Did Charles Carroll Slater float a check? Seems CalBog has no version, and has resorted to attempting to dig up dirt on his ‘opponents’, so he’s been making enqiries about people, most likely using the Intelus service, and he posted this:

You think that, by age 45, ‘Charles’(nobody calls me ‘Charles’, not even my mother, who grew up in WWII Italy and prolly could kick CalBog’s ass.) would know how much money was in his bank account. The following seems to suggest otherwise:

CASE NUMBER: 1X00005951 - Confirm Case at the Court House

CASE TYPE: CRIMINAL DISPOSITION DATE: 03/16/2005

STATE CODE: MD OFFENSE ID: MD_AOC2952501

OFFENSE CODE: 27.141.(A) OFFENSE: BD CK/UTTER/NSF/UND $300

Well, he got the goods on me, eh wot? Actually, no. Here’s the case information(Thx to Corey Dukes). You may have to enter my name to get to it, this is supposed to be a direct link, but it only seems to work that way in Konqueror. Whatever. Any olde way, CalBog gets it all kinds of wrong. He intimates that I bounced a cheque in MD in Mar 2k5. That’s when the case was resolved. If he’d bothered to look at the record, the summons for the case was issued twice in October 1999, and a Bench Warrant was issued in November 1999. Now the physical characteristics describing ‘me’ in the case information are close enough for government work, but the address is all wrong. It’s a Frostburg postal address(I lived in Frostburg, MD from 1995-1998), but physically, it’s Grantsville, MD 10 miles west of Frostburg-in Garrett County, MD.

Now, if CalQaeda has bothered to look at his report-and done a Gurgle map search, he would have found that the two addresses I lived at in Frostburg don’t match the one given in the case information, and aren’t even in the same county. Now, I got ahold of my ex, whose ability to recall these things is much better than mine, and she reminded me what the deal was. I did get a letter about this a couple of years ago, and she called the Garrett County Sherriff on my behalf-and it was the wrong person, according to them. So, CalBog got all excited for nothing. If you read the case details, the case was basically resolved by ignoring it.

Now if CalBog wanted to try and generate a scandal, why didn’t he ‘tell’ everybody about my Contempt conviction of March 1999? I spent 60 days on Golden Hill(the old Ulster County Gaol). I was charged in with Contempt and Aggrivated Harassment in the Town of Olive: I went to get my car at my wife’s residence, when she wasn’t home-which was a violation of an injunction I was under at the time(I think one of her neighbours grassed on me), and got 90 days for Contempt with a month off for good behaviour. That is as real as it gets. Of course, I’ll tell anyone about it, I’m not ashamed of it. Not like I murdered anyone. Poor CalBog, he thought he had a big thing going, he says: ‘This seemingly demonstrates that Frostburg didn’t play games… I wonder if ‘Charles’ will add this information to his blog!’. Well, as it happens, Cal, yes I would, because it stands, this is another example of your failing at life.

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Racist Roadsine Randy really, really tries hard to get top billing on The Experience at all times.But, he doesn’t match up to CalBog, because all he can do is dribble on and on about the ’svartzies’ , and wish everyone who disagrees with him dead or worse. His racism is pretty disgusting, and stupid, but it’s not the only dimension of his particular brand of fail.

As Randy opens his mouth, or types on the Computar Macheen that he pays $20/day to access, he reveals more and more what an absolute tool and a hypocrite he is. Now I happen to be privy to a bit of info not put out on MTR by Randy, and there’s some interesting things to be found out about him. He winges and moans about people not paying enough taxes, and it turns out that Randy ‘ha[s] driven a cab with the same company for over 20 years. I make plenty of money, and it si[sic] all tax free.’
It’s easy enough to talk about raising taxes when you don’t pay them yourself. There’s more, of course; Randy has tried to ping on my about my domestic situation, telling me in one post to make sure I pay my child support; not realising that my kids are all grown(easy enough to find out, as my Fickr page has snaps of me and my 18 yr old son Nathan clowning around Hancock, NY, or just ask me.). Of course, in reality, Randy ‘never wanted a family, I am too selfish. And a lot of the people I know have nothing but problems. I am single and free as a bird to do what ever I want.’ Figures, don’t it? Randy is just fine on telling you how to do things he’s never, ever done. At least he admits to being selfish, and given his disposition, he’d be totally unsuited to reproduce anyway. Think of what he’d teach his kids.

There’s moar and it’s pretty seamy. Randy has, shall we say, an interesting obsession with package size. ‘And I am sure you know, people with large male organs have problems also. Right near me, we have the Avenel Diagnostic and Treatment center. That is for sexual offenders to keep them out of the general prison population.’
This has carried over to MTR, with Randy insisting that people who are ‘well endowed’ are sexual criminals out of the bag. Randy is, by his own admission, rather lacking in the genitalia dept.

So there’s something right there, and it’s only scratching the surface. In MTR, Randy has revealed that he has a pretty limited worldview: based on his living in Northern NJ, maybe Florida, and in Cleveland some 40 years ago. Now, for Randy, what he sees and believes is the only acceptable reality for him; anything else does not exist. He refuses or is mentally incapable(I lean toward the latter) of accepting anything outside the reality he’s constructed. He whines about ’svartzies’ killing each other; but kind of forgets that whites do likewise, and in greater numbers. Reminding him of that fact repeatedly actually got a grudging admission that ‘whites do bad things’, but that blacks are still much worse. Now, I even mentioned the fact that whites(and some Jews-as Randy is Jewish) invented the atomic bomb. He ignored that, basically stating that a black killing one white is much worse than whites inventing a means to destroy the world in less time than it takes to get a pizza delivered.

Arguments in this line seem to trouble Randy a great deal. He runs out of ways to ‘prove ‘ his point very quickly, and has to resort to all sorts of diversions and tricks to try and ‘prove’ himself right; these also fail, because they only reveal the rest of his boatload of prejudices. Randy doesn’t like much of anything or anyone. He calls people all sorts of names. Christians are ‘idiots’, Conservatives are also racist, in Randy’s world, and as it happens, more racist than he is; so you shouldn’t go after him, because his racism’s not as bad. Randy can’t accept the reality that to me, any racism is bad, and I’m going to address what’s obvious first. Of course, to him, I’m a Nazi, because all Skinheads are. Yet, he’s the one who calls the blacks ‘niggers’. Neato. Go figure.

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Adam Prince generated some Drama on April Fool’s Day by saying he was quitting roadgeeking forevar. This netted mixed results-Scott Kozel was not suckered for a minute-he called it correctly as an April Fool’s joke. Others took the bait, resulting in some reasonably decent trollage. The prime target in this little exercise was Ternthorn Logghorn, who currently posts as XOZ on MTR. He was all beside himself, because he bears a grudge against Adam for banning him from the Roadgeek IRC channel-except Adam didn’t do that; but reality doesn’t always cooperate with poor olde Ternt.

You’d think people would learn, but they don’t. Now, I don’t always agree with Adam doing this sort of thing, and I’ve told him as much in person. I told Racist Roadsine Randy that Adam was trolling him one time; right in front of MTR. Adam doesn’t have a problem with me on that account, because he’s just doing it for the lulz anyway, and he readily admits to it. So there you go. The cards are there on the table for all to see, but some ppl are just too stupid or foolish to notice, or they’re too bound up in their own shite. Whatever. PT Barnum was right. There is a sucker born every minute, and Adam just does well at finding them, and pissing them off so they act stupid, for his(and our) entertainment. Someone has to do it, I guess.

It was raining out today, so no hiking for me. I’m made of sugar, I’ll melt! Aiee! But David Backlin sent me some nice pictures of the Sunny Southland, including an interesting overpass configuration. David, you see, loves the bridge like Brigadier Smilin’ John O’ Krakoff of the Button Copy Brigade loves the sine. Which is fine with me. It’s what makes this hobby so much fun.

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	US 49 E/W split at Tutwiler, MS
	Old Technicolour US 49(orange) US 82(blue) and triangular MS 7(green) signs in Downtown Greenwood, MS.I personally recall seeing similar in the late 70’s in various Mississippi localities. I thought they were all gone.
	US 82(11th Street) Yazoo River bridge in Greenwood, MS.
	Trailblazers to US 51, US 80, the IH 55 and the IH 20 at Jackson, MS, along State Street (old US 51).
	Old Brandon Road over the Pearl River
	Old US 49 near Pearl goes under the Illinois Central Railway and under US 80 (actually, this is probably ‘Old, old US 49’ as there is another ‘old US 49’ that intersects US 80).This appears to be (possibly) the earliest alignment of US 49. It forks off Brandon Road and eventually merges with ‘old US 49’ which is just to the west of here, but begins at US 80. David likes the double bridges(I do, too): the ICRR and US 80. Note the concrete lettering on the ICRR bridge. As you can also see, this road floods a lot. View Larger Map
	Old bridge on NB US 49 south of Hattiesburg near US 98 (Myers Creek, David thinks… lends a whole new meaning to ‘playing in traffic’)
	Main and Pine in Hattiesburg, MS.
	US 49 overpass at 7th Street in Hattiesburg.
	Abandoned through truss bridge near US 11 north of Enterprise, MS.
	Pony truss bridge on old US 80 at Meridian, MS.

David has a lot more pictures on his flickr page and there are also some at The All Nite Images, because we’re all ‘Competitive’ like that here at the EAST COAST HIVE MIND!

I’m on holiday, so I have time to get to check out things I’ve been meaning to look at for some time now. I’ve gone by the southern trailheads in the Mohonk Preserve, west of New Paltz, NY so many times and I’ve always wondered what it was all like. Today was sunny and nice, an ideal day for getting out and wearing out the soles on my boots.

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The beginning of the connector trail from the car park off US 44-NY 55 to the Mohonk Preserve Roads.	The Connector trail.
A Big farkin’ rock. There are a lot of these about.	The Trapps(Steel) bridge over US 44-NY 55.
Looking across the Trapps Bridge.	Here’s the plate for the Trapps Bridge. I guess this might have been part of the county road system at one time.
Looking south over US 44-NY 55. I’ve passed under this bridge countless times; this is the first time I’ve been over it.	Looking north from the bridge.
Welcome to the Mohonk Preserve. Give Us Money.	Beginning of the Undercliff Carriage Road.
This trail parallels US 44-NY 55 to the hairpin bend. The highway is to the right, and about 50 feet down.	Rock cliffs are a feature of this trail. A lot of young people were climbing the rocks, and you could hear them talking to each other.
The rock at right is visible from US 44-NY 55.	The Undercliff Carriage Road and US 44-NY 55.
Cliffs and Rocks, rocks and cliffs.	Looking up at these things can make you dizzy.
A plate recalling the people who started recreational rock climbing in the area.	Looking out over the Hudson Valley to the east.
More rocks and such.	Trodding thru the jungle with chalice in hand.
This is a link to the east car park near the NY 299. There wasn’t any ice, it was too warm out.	Just the same, this isn’t for the faint of heart.
More Rocks. It’s like an frozen avalanche around here.	Looking to the east-the road in the distance is NY 299.
The trail turns away from civilisation at this point. It gets really quiet-all you can hear is the wind and the sound of your shufflin’ feets.
	Here, the trail turns away from the cliffs and starts to descend.
A small stream crossed by the trail.	Looking back at the cliff line.
This pretty much the middle of nowhere-pretty serene, as it happens.
Approaching the Rhododendron Bridge and the junction with the Overcliff Carriage Road and other trails. The sawhorse has an Allowed Cloud for the Overcliff Road-it was supposed to be closed to all but snowshoe and ski traffic.	The Allowed Cloud up close and personal.
I was here, now so are You! The Rhododendron Bridge map.	The Overcliff Carriage Road-still a bit snowy just here.
A switchback on the trail-this trail climbs up a bit faster than the Undercliff Carriage Road.
	As you can see, the trail climbs pretty rapidly.
Looking west towards the Catskills.	Another look at the Catskills.
Somebody has a nice house put up outside of the preserve limits. Likely a summer place.	Here’s a great sheet of granite-covered with ice. That’d be a fun ride down.
Still climbing uphill.
This is the summit of the trail-and an impromptu something or other.	Now the trail starts heading downhill.
A little more leftover snow. Crunchy!
These icicles were melting. I also saw a woodpecker near here, but the little swine flew off before I could get his picture.
A granite ridge: this is part of the Shawangunk Ridge.	Another great huge sheet of granite.
	Coming full circle to the junction of Under and Overcliff Carriage Roads near the Trapps Bridge.
Looking back at the Overcliff Carriage Road. The whole trip was about 3 ½ miles all told- an nice aftenoon walk.

Now regular readers of these emisions are pretty hep to the general feeling about krl rgrz/CalQaeda/CalBog among the roadnerd community. Loathing being the consensus, it would seem. But how about a member of the general public who has been exposed to a CalBog steamer or two? What is their reaction? Not much different, I must say. CalBog inspires mockery even among non-viatologistes. Take my wife(no, I’m not doing that joke). My report of her recent ‘group home’ comment earned me a BANanahammar.

Well, she came round for a quick visit, to chew the fat and generally hang out and check out some places she had been involved with up here; like a place she once worked that has since been gutted to the walls and rebuilt. I was only happy to oblige. Dinner was in the bargain, too. I like to eat and chat. Well, the conversation drifted round to CalBog, and her take on him; and I suggested that she use the miracle of the Internets to ask him her questions in person. She sort of ran with the idea, resulting in what may be the first in a series of short, but amusing videos.

He’s been having a bit of fun polishing up his photoshoppin skillz.

Now the second part of this post was supposed to be about Raciste Roadsine Randy’s latest insane dribbings buuuut-CalBog will not rest until he is crowned the Worst Roadgeek Evar. He made another advance towards that status by tying in his four little NY snaps into the Eliot Spitzer scandal.

So, if anybody can find newer pictures of Miss Dupré, please let me know… Wow!!! (Words to the government: keep you laws off of peoples’ bodies. You’re encouraging pointless media coverage.)

For coverage of Mr Spitzer’s state, chiefly upstate(WAY upstate), the Worldwide Highway Library offers an assorted collection of USA Interstate, Federal Route[sic] and NY State Route photographs….

I particularly enjoy the bit of ‘liberal’ drivel in there; CalBog’s showing us what an open-minded kinda guy without borders he is. Well, unless you happen to make a critical remark about him or Eric, like GR Van did in which case, he tells you by posting a link to a ‘Jesusland’ graphic(GR being from Missouri), ironically, one posted on Wikipedia of all places. The implication there being that if you are from flyover country, you’re too ignorant to comment on CalBog. Little Lord Fauntleroy shows his contempt for the ‘commoners’. Interesting also that CalBog claims Republican, and disses on others of the same political persuasion. Well, whatevar.

And CalBog can get pretty snippy, too. TimBrown posts a reply to Rich Piehl’s thread about a proposed Missouri law that would prohibit high-school dropouts from getting a driving licence until they were 18-to discourage dropping out in St Louis City Schools. Well olde TimBrown latches onto that with one of his ‘issues’: school bullying, saying legislators were doing nothing about that. Rich posted a link that proved Tim wrong, so Tim ups the ante by demanding revocation of bullies licences. Nothing like when you’re proven wrong to go ahead and be more wrong, but we’re talking TimBrown here. Now normally, CalBog gives two shites about anything but himself, but Rich responds to Tim’s proposition with the suggestion(obviously sarcastic) of subjecting school bullies to various forms of torture-including listening to CalBog videos. That woke milord’s arse up:

Shut the fuck up, Rich. Save your ideology for someone who cares.
There’s a reason why you post drivel on the Internet–you are unhappy w/ yourself and your life; you try to drag others down to reach your level of pessimism and low IQ. Low EQ too.

Lightbulb! Try creating something on MTR and not report news from other sources because you lack the intellectual function to produce something useful on your own.

I’m still looking for your competition to the WHL. You sure talk a big game, yet you produce jackshit. You’re pathetic.

Got his lil pink knickers in a twist, that did. Now allegedly, CalBog claims he has been ignoring Rich, says he rigged Google to killfile him(which is pure byullshit), but as you can see, that’s a lie. What a surprise. You better believe CalBog pays attention to everything written about him at all times.