MooPig Report from the Middle :: The Initials have been Changed to Protect the Innocent PART TWO

by Pat Darnell  |  June 13, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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Today, June 13th, is my older brother's birthday. We are both pain-in-the-ass June babies, seven years apart. The initials are changed to protect the innocent. Yes, we have brought on the pain over the years.

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It so happens that a word in use has been spotted by the MooPig "Verses, Commentaries, Concordances Department." That word is "convoluted." It has been spotted used in many different places for the last year or so. What does convoluted mean?

Well it goes something like this: "

" ... Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked consideration of a Democratic bill to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates, leaving the legislation in limbo less than two months before rates on subsidized federal loans are set to shoot upward.
NOTE:
YES = vote to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling
NO = vote to allow student loan interest rates to double (See Poll Results HERE ) ... "

Is this a good thing or a bad thing -- WHO THE HELL KNOWS??!!!

A married couple trying to put two through college will see this as a slap in the face... since the student loan system has been the only way to put a kid in college of late. Suddenly, the convoluted government decides to let the interest rates double for some unwitting moms and dads? The loan programs have been around since the 60's...!

Convoluted: " ... highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" ... " (online dictionary. HERE)

Byzantine, eh?

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That's our Report from the Middle, where men are good looking, women are strong, and children are all above average ... not convoluted.

Faccia di porco-vacca

by Pat Darnell

MooPig is gearing up for its one-thousandth posting celebration of the 21st century... how a bout it?

What have we learned in the last years of bloggerdomming-atrix?

Well, for instance, we found out we are considered a tad left of the Male Chauvinism Scale of blogger landing pages.

Most females don't understand a word of anything in this MooPig genre... that probably goes for our LGBTG's as well.
[It is startling to witness your nonsupporting demographic so repeatably unfavorable to MooPig bombast, who we think actually represents them in a sense of irregularity]


In final market analysis, we have determined also our anti-demograph of readers, totaling Three, is a diverse group from ages 22 to 62, all male, and generally too busy.

However, for the male chauvinist pigs who are latent, and hidden from view still have said: "It sucks to be you; but we would miss MooPig if it were suddenly gone from the internet."

"MooPig, you're cured!" said one part time reader who drops in when he isn't Mr Mom to three teens, and idol man to his hot potato girlfriends.

We seriously are considering the bigger question -- "What in Hell is this kind of legacy to leave for your children? They are struggling enough... and so on?" But then how could we ever get along with ourselves if we did not tell our children about pesticides, parasites and pandemics?