Category: World’s Youngest Blogger

The World’s Youngest Blogger Salutes Queen Elizabeth

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by The World’s Youngest Blogger

Do you like my Norman Rockwell look?
Do you like my Norman Rockwell look?

On the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee, I should like to wish a merry day to England and Her Royal Highness.

Please accept my sincerest regrets for the latest in a series of snubs proffered by this regrettable Commie jackwagon they elected three years ahead of my birth. Alas, halting such piffle is beyond my powers.

Growing Up

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by Smitty

Victor Davis Hanson has another excellent essay on the situation in Europe. Read the whole thing. But let us focus on the Germany/Greece dichotomy.

In other words, it is as illogical as it is common for the wayward debtor to blame the thrifty creditor for his dilemma. The Germans now are in the impossible situation of being told they did something wrong by doing things mostly right. They retire too late and caused others to retire too early; they saved too much money so others had to borrow too much; they built too many things that others wanted; they acted too much like parents and so made others too much like children.
Right now the continent’s psychological problem is not that southern Europeans cannot pay the northerners back, but that they are often arguing that they should not have to pay them, as if those who lent are more to blame than those who borrowed. The Germans rightly know that if they were just to write off the debt, such magnanimity would only lead to the same disaster in another five years, as the southern Mediterraneans cited such largess as proof that the Germans were guilty all along of mercantilism and therefore finally evened up with their moral betters. For Germans, this serial blackmail is of course an impossible situation. Would you wish to be lectured by your poorer brother-in-law on why he should not have to pay your $1,000 loan back, as he critiqued your oh-so-conventional workaholic habits?

What comes to mind is the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. Let’s compare and contrast: Continue reading Growing Up →

World’s Youngest Blogger, Neighborhood Watch Edition

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by Smitty

Wise Judge Vaughey says to keep a close watch out for bloggers whose names rhyme with Scarin’ Stalker. That’s just what the World’s Youngest blogger sets out to do, in his matchless disguise as a 10 month-old. Who would guess that these seemingly infantile hands can take on a rampaging camel?

And yet, watch Niklas do battle with a camel in this very clip:

This artifact is known as “The 100”. I had been in the basement all day, writing python code in a courier font. Mrs. Other Smitty and her sister had been shopping, and bought a small sign that said “Loo”, i.e. a British lavatory, to hang on the bathroom. Only they hung it on the camel’s neck. I looked at this thing and saw “lOO”, and asked “What’s the 100?” Some stuff you just don’t live down.

The World’s Youngest Blogger In: Shoppin’ Broccoli

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by Smitty

Something about the grocery store fans the flames of my low humor.

On one of the frozen aisles, my long-suffering wife peered at the signs above the doors and inquired “What are ‘novelties’?”

I replied in my The Californians voice that outs me for an unabashed idiot: “That’s when you shred a book and run hot water through it. You know: novel teas?”

I was rewarded with one of her pained expressions.

On the frozen vegetable aisle, I suddenly got very specific about where to park the cart. Click for a larger view and the reference:
Dana Carvey forever!