A video from Oregon

Hey, so it's been some time since I posted to the blog. Mostly that's because I've been skipping and prancing and eating bon-bons. Some of the time was spent at work, sure, but I've promised in an earlier post not to dwell on that nonsense.

So, catching up, here's a delightful snapshot of some halcyon days when I wasn't working through the weekend, but instead shamelessly showing my face in the light of day during the hours when the sun is normally out.

I was actually looking at this waterfall - the second tallest waterfall in the U.S. or something. You can hazard other guesses in the comments.

In Soviet Russia, waterfall pee on dog! ha ha . . . oh well

Perhaps it was the tallest waterfall to ever enter a free-trade arrangement with the USSR? The nastiest waterfall this side of the Mississippi? Either way, it was quite a tall goddamn waterfall.

More interestingly though, it was right there and you could go and stand in it. I had a housemate from New Zealand at one time who complained that there's no right of public access to water in the U.S.. Apparently, in NZ you can just run right up to the water and hop in, no matter where you are. The shore is public land and if the Man wants to stop you from drowning he can go screw himself! I think it's a shame that in the U.S. we (have to?) restrict access to lovely feats of nature like this one. In this case, of course, we haven't and I should shut up.

Also, this makes me sound like a filthy libertarian, and I think libertarians should be beaten savagely. Then if the cops don't come, everybody wins.