Same difference, really.
You know, to someone. Someone at the Washington Post.
Drudge has a developing story that Chris Matthews of Hardhead Hardball was attacked live on the air. I didn't see it happen, primarily because I find Mr. Matthews the television equivalent of unsightly panty lines*, but the safe money is that Michelle Malkin just kicked the shit out of him.
I'll keep you up to date with details as I get them. From Drudge. Which you can do just as well as I. So, hell, quit expecting me to do all the work for ye, ya lazy bastard. Arrrr!
Sorry, pirate moment.
Update: Robbed! Michelle stole m'joke! Somebody call me a trial lawyer! Hey, where's John Edwards when you need him?
No, really, has anyone seen the guy lately? He seems conspicuously absent.
Update 2: Hey, my last name is O'Reilly. And Michelle's post says her alibi is that she was "with O'Reilly." This doesn't look good. Man, I hope my wife doesn't read the blog.
Update 3: Why, yes, I do like to hear myself type.
Anyway, I just scanned down Michelle's last few posts and noticed she makes a quick reference to the mysterious, vanishing John Edwards as well. So, now it looks like I stole from her after she stole from me**, which, honestly, just makes me look petty.
I am not a crook!
Anyway, I've about run this one into the ground, so moving right along.
Looking forward to providing you more alibis down the road, Michelle. Be a doll and leave my money on the dresser. I am sooo going to Washingtonienne this.
* Nope, I don't know what that analogy means either. You'll notice I do that a lot.
** Which is not meant to imply that Michelle actually stole from me, because it's highly doubtful she'd visit my wee backwater of the blogosphere for naughty and nefarious plagiaristic purposes.
It's an argument one often hears applied to any major scientific advance, usually by some slopey-browed cave dweller who fears the wrath of God (or "Oog," as the first cave dwellers called him) should mankind actually dare further its own understanding of the world.
It's an argument that rises up from the distorted worldview that knowledge can, in and of itself, be evil or immoral.
In short, it's generally a big crock o'poo.
However, much to my dismay, I have found one area in which it applies as a useful maxim:
Just because you can serve draught beer in Montgomery, Alabama, doesn't mean you should.For years and years (the exact number of which I have no idea, but Google is your friend), Montgomery banned the sale of draught beer within the city limits. Friends and I have tried to comprehend the rationale behind it, and the best we could muster was that brewers would be against it as it costs more to build local storage for refrigerated kegs than it does to tuck a truckload of bottles in the back of a store. Or, perhaps, it was just one more in a series of misguided blue laws that religious types like to foist on the populace.
It isn't as contentious an issue as abortion, but I probably could have made mint by producing t-shirts that said "Don't want a draught beer? Don't have one!" You may think I jest, but we drinkers of good beer are deadly serious.
Anyway, that little bit of limited history is neither here nor there nor anywhere, so let's move along.
So, there I was...IN the jungle Montgomery, Alabama.* I was so looking forward to seeing my former home delighting in the beveragey goodness that is quality draught beer. Of seeing mugs filled with golden, brown, or red nectar sweating happily on bars all across that fair city. Of watching bar patrons carefully reading a menu with copious beer choices, determined to select the perfect fresh beer to complement that bacon cheeseburger in front of them. And then I realized something. Something tragic.
They just don't get it.
First observation:
If you're going to put beer on tap, make it good beer. The difference between Bud, Coors, or Michelob in a bottle, and the same beer on tap, is akin to the difference between a needle through one's private parts and a swift kick there. True, one is moderately better than the other, but both are best avoided at all costs.Where, oh where, are the taps for Guinness, Newcastle, Bass, Fat Tire, 90 Shilling, Red Hook, or any other of the hundreds of delicious micro- and not-so-micro-brews out there?
Second observation:
If you're going to drink crappy beer, at least drink it on tap. In one particular instance, in one particular bar, serving four particularly crappy beers (and one good beer) on tap, eight of the ten people at the bar were drinking from bottles.** Drinking the same beers available on tap, but from bottles!I generally like to avoid testicular trauma imagery in my posts, but this is like choosing the needle over the kick. Wrong choice!
On the outside, I might have looked rather stoic (or slightly buzzed) with my pint of Bass in hand, but inside, I was crying like a wee schoolgirl.
Perhaps it's the novelty of the concept. Perhaps it's a lack of exposure to the wider world of beer. Perhaps it's similar to the way democracy in Russia looks a whole lot like totalitarianism with a smile - the people just don't know any other way. Perhaps there is hope for my old hometown.
In the meantime, however:
O! Montgomery, how I weep for thee!* Don't remember that commercial? Too bad. Oddly enough, while Montgomery is not the jungle, it is nicknamed "Monkeytown" by truck drivers. As with the reasons for the draught beer ban, I'm at a bit of a loss as to why that should be, unless it's something from our racist past.
** Sadly, the other two appeared to be drinking "froo-froo" drinks. Yes, it's better than drinking crap beer, but, c'mon, people!
Her husband, the former president [Clinton], speaking at Riverside Church in upper Manhattan, said, "Politics and political involvement dictated by faith is not the exclusive province of the right wing."How silly of me. Here I was hoping that our policies might be rooted in reason, analysis, and far-sighted planning for the future of the United States of America and her people.The Democrats, Clinton argued, need to show their policies are also rooted in faith.
But, nope, guess I was wrong. We should make all of our policy decisions based on a complete lack of evidence*. It's all about the Mighty Mighty Morphin' Jeebus.
To quote the philosopher Sammy Hagar:
Christ, what's a man to do?And apologies to The Raving Atheist for knicking his tagline, kind of, for my post title.
* No WMD cracks, if you please. Honestly, that's so obvious. Last time I heard that I had my finger up a dinosaur's butt. Don't laugh, I was pulling you out. *snork*
OK, shutting up. Going to bed.
We're back from Alabama and headed off to bed. The house, dogs, and cats are fine, courtesy of our most excellent house-sitting friends. Although they did wipe out my beer, so a run to the store was in order a couple of hours ago.
More thoughts on vacation, Alabama, beer, and such to follow tomorrow.
Night!
...of my vacation, that is.
In a couple of hours, we'll be boarding a series of planes on our return to Denver. Yes, we'll have the delightful task of keeping a 16-month old entertained for 4-6 hours so as not to drive other passengers crazy (although I'm not so sure they really enjoy it when I bounce her up and down on my knee saying "boing boing boing boing!").
Admit it. You envy me.
Looking forward to stepping out of the sauna that is Alabama.
See you soon.
Glenn Reynolds should have birthdays more often:
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, which means no more blogging today unless something rather major happens.I think that this probably qualifies.
CBS News has learned that the FBI has a full-fledged espionage investigation under way and is about to -- in FBI terminology -- "roll up" someone agents believe has been spying not for an enemy, but for Israel from within the office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon.Immediate thoughts of influence in the war in Iraq, of what intelligence to trust, etc, all spring to mind. I think it's about to get interesting.
I understand the notion that friends spy on friends, but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be a penalty for it. Perhaps some solo flying time for Israel is in order?
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A woman who agreed to have a child with her lesbian partner, but split up with the mother before the baby's birth, cannot be forced to pay child support, the state's highest court ruled Wednesday.C'mon, Christian Coalition, do it for the children!
* No charge for specially-added hyerbole
Actually, if it involves giant spiders the size of chairs, I'll just stick with beer.
Way over here.
With a big can of Raid.
My half-elven thief cleric just found a Scroll of Perpetual Virginity! Take that, Voldemort!
Update: Hi kids, I had to block access to the video of people who really need to grow up as we're on the cheaper hosting plan and I'll be away from the blog until I get back to Denver. So, I'd hate to get back and find that my bandwidth is all blown out.
If anyone else wants to host it in the meantime, drop me (Andy) an e-mail and I'll update the link.
Thanks!
Update 2: This site seems to have a copy of it as well.
Been a long day on the road today. Up early and off to Tuscaloosa, home of my alma mater, The University of Alabama. Met up with some old friends from college, showed off the wee Fiona, had lunch.
Two things I learned:
Hope you're enjoying my vacation like I am!
Well, technically, I'm already here, with the wife and the wee Fiona. A few weeks ago we decided to surprise my mother by flying down for a visit without telling her we were coming. So, got on the phone to my dad, got him in on the plan, arranged some flights, and shortly after lunchtime on Saturday we walked in the door of their house.
Mom was, in a word, surprised. Thankfully she didn't keel over on the spot as that would have put a damper on the day.
Anyway - this trip is to blame for the lack of posting, and will be to blame for the lack of anything significant (most likely) for the week. I'd blog from here but my parents live in Internet-Land 1994 with their 28.8 AOL connection and it's agonizing waiting for pages to load. How we ever put up with it before is beyond me.
(For business process geeks, this would be an example of customer requirements shifting from a satisfier to a dissatisfier - not that many of you are such geeks like I am)
OK, that's all. Over and out and talk soon and take care of yourselves.
"Like a goddamn beached whale, honey."
Yeah, that'll make life loads better.
Getting away with murder in the name of God.
via evil incarnate
You might remember that a little while ago I linked to a story about how Denver was America's most sloshed city.
Well, it turns out that my previous home, Montgomery, Alabama, came in first as the most sober city.
They owe it all to me. Well, my leaving.
I'm voting for John Kerry because he's sooooo dreamy!
He's not gay. He's under-straight.
Alan Keyes is flip-flopping worse than John Kerry on a particularly well-lubricated tramponline upon which Teresa Heinz Kerry* had just double-bounced him.
Alan Keyes was against carpetbagging, until he wasn't. Alan Keyes was against reparations, until he wasn't.
Verily, I say, the Republican party has lost its way. And its mind.
Now, if only they would lose their Keyes.
Update: An interesting observation:
So how do they handle the dilemma? They hand Alan Keyes a nice, long rope and he'll make like Judas, leave town and hang himself. They can't think of a more graceful way to fire an obviously disastrous employee.One can hope, but be careful with the "hanging" reference. Given Keyes' bizarre behavior of late, he's liable to rant about how you want to put together a lynchin' posse. Racist!
Anyway, I think it would be much, much cooler if instead of hanging himself, Keyes made like Judas and - during a stump speech - fell over and exploded his guts out.** Maybe too messy though. But cool.
* Or perhaps one of her houseboys, as trampolines are so proletarian.
** Yes, the inerrant Word of God can't make up its mind on how Judas died.
Please visit Josh Claybourn's site and extend your condolences to him on the loss of his mother. Despite our significant differences on myriad issues, I think I can safely say that Josh truly is one of the good guys.
Our thoughts are with you.
P.S.: The rest of you, go tell your mom that you love her. I mean it. Do it.
Today, on my lunch hour, I went to OfficeDepot and bought some pens. A box of 12 uni-ball roller ball pens. Ink, blue. Oh, and some refills for my Dr. Grip Gel pen. I'm not sure who names these things, but I'm wagering there is something moderately subliminal about "uni-ball" and "Dr. Grip." Or, there was until I pointed it out, exposing these pen marketing gurus for the sexual deviants they are.
So, anyway, yeah - I bought some pens.
And refills.
Update: "Pens" is "penis" without the "i."
Just an observation.
If it's in Al-Jazeera, it must be true!
McGreevey ‘sex scandal’ was an Israeli Intelligence operationHeh huh huh huh, you said "penetrate."...Foreign Policy/Intelligence Columnist Andy Martin uncovers some secrets to this regards, and asserts that McGreevey sex scandal was an Israeli Intelligence operation.
"People have been confused by the McGreevey sex scandal," says Martin. "But McGreevey's dilemma is not a gay sex scandal. It is an Israeli intelligence operation gone sour. This is not a scandal about 'sex.' It is a scandal about 'secrets'," Martin says.
"...Mr. Cipel was a junior Mossad case officer, originally posted to New York under official cover. The Mossad is well known for using human sex toys. McGreevey was lured into a relationship that was intended to penetrate New Jersey's homeland defenses."
Pardon me, please, must go to the store as I'm fresh out of tinfoil.
And apparently some folks at FoxNews are bat-assed blind, because I think this incarnation of the site is even less attractive and harder to read than the previous one. Imagine if a news junkie had the munchies and then blew news spew all over their screen - that, ladies and gents, is of what I am reminded.
Now, Google News - clean layout, easy-to-see categorization, and all the global newsy goodness a boy could want. Except for when it links you back to that god-awful new FoxNews page.
A slew of books, both future-papyritic* and modernly aural in nature:
Maybe Bamford goes on to make some good points about the failures of the intelligence community in the modern era. I don't think I'll ever know, as this thing reeks of bias and agenda (you know, so much as an audiobook can) from the very start.
Bonus points for referring to some of his time stoppages** as "chronanisms***."
And I realize that two books probably doesn't count as a slew, but what if they were really BIG books? Huh? What then, Mr. Smarty Pants? No? Well, fine.
* I think I just winged that word. You know, in case it wasn't obvious. See, paper's not quite papyrus, but similar, thus...oh, nevermind. To hell with the lot of ya.
** Not to be confused with Time Passages.
*** Expand your vocabulary. Ooh, work it baby.
The evidence continues to mount:
When news of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison broke, Army Spc. Joseph Darby's family said they were proud the soldier revealed photos documenting the mistreatment. But they never expected their own friends and neighbors would turn on them for what they considered a brave disclosure....Of course, doing the right thing doesn't always mean doing the easy thing. Kudos to Spc. Darby for letting his conscience be his guide when others were willingly telling their own " just piss off, would ya?""We did not receive the response I thought we would. People were, they were mean, saying he was a walking dead man, he was walking around with a bull's-eye on his head. It was scary," Bernadette Darby, Joseph Darby's wife, said today on ABC News' Good Morning America.
There's more of the story at GQ.
Another good, but unrelated (aside from the Army angle), story can be found here.
If any of you like Monte Montgomery, the Austin Music Network is streaming a show of his they recorded the other day. You can watch it here. I think it runs until about 4 Eastern time today.
It's my official cooking music of the day.
A day of cooking, that is. Got up early with the wee Fiona and then we went grocery shopping. In a matter of 90 minutes or so, we'll all be sitting down to an uber-healthy meal of slow-roasted brisket with bourbon BBQ sauce, roasted corn on the cob with cheese and lime, and buttermilk-bacon smashed potatoes.
I'm about halfway through the cooking - the BBQ sauce ended up being rather spicy, so Fiona won't be able to enjoy it. Well, she might enjoy, but I'm not changing that diaper. Biohazard: beware.
Now, to choose a wine to go with it...
...updates later.
Headline: Alabama to expand border security
Governor Bob Riley, himself a product of the award-winning* Alabama educational system, told reporters that more Alabama state troopers, trained in immigration enforcement, will be stationed along Alabama's borders with Canada and Mexico**.
* Hey, not all awards have to be good ones.
** Yes, sometimes I embellish or just plain make shit up.
An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot consume wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained none, violating Catholic doctrine.Of course, a "true believer" should probably just trust the good Lord Jesus to prevent that wheat-laden wafer from making seriously ill or perhaps killing their child. I mean, if He can turn the stuff into his own flesh and blood, thereby making it magically delicious, then this should be a pretty simple trick, don't you think?
Or maybe the Church is just plain nuts, in a world full of injustice, suffering, and oppression, to follow a god who gets his pan-galactic panties in a twist over a little girl's wafer and the disease with which he, in his infinitely divine super-duper-love, blessed her.
Note: one may argue that the article describes the case of another child with the same disease, who was also denied the sacrament, but who then was contacted by another parish willing to use a gluten-free substitute. Fine and dandy, but it also mentions that the family is unwilling to name the priest or the parish, clearly to prevent retribution from the Church. So, while there may be some priests out there with human hearts, the Church is still nuts.
Note the Second: an alternative suggestion has been that the girl should simply drink from the chalice and that, under Church dogma, this would constitute a complete sacrament. How does the Church reconcile this when their own writings on the sacrament quote from the book of John?
54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.It's not eateth or drinketh - it's eateth and drinketh, which sounds to me like if you only go halfway, you're going to be in hell with all the evil atheists like myself.
55 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.
56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.
57 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.
Sorry, little darling, but Jeebus says yer screwed.
(thankee thankee to Zombyboy)
It's clear, sunny, and 67 here in Denver (on the left).
Sorry, Tampa (on the right).
Being stupid doesn't make you cool.* Houses can be replaced - people can't. Not yet. But there's no need to get into the whole cloning argument right now.
* However, being more like me certainly would.
Did Tom actually post something?
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Sweet Jesus doin' the happy bunny dance in a clown suit, he surely did.
And a long one at that.
Must go read. You do the same.
Denver earns another distinguished honor:
Researchers at Men's Health magazine have published a report that ranks Denver as the drunkest big city in America.Hooray! - who wants to join me to celebrate with a beer or six?
NPR's Fresh Air had two interviews today: the first with Illinois US Senatorial candidate Barack Obama, the rising Golden Child of the Democratic Party, and one with opposing candidate Alan Keyes, perennial right-wing mouthpiece.
I want to analyze several things about the interviews today with the Democratic and Republican US senatorial candidates for Illinois, from the way each interview was handled, to the candidates themselves. I found it a particularly enlightening day. The contents of both interviews can be found here, in case you want to listen for context. I'm pointing to the archive in hopes that this will be a permalink and not be outdated by tomorrow. I apologize that the show is in audio format, but unfortunately, transcripts cost money.
Gimme gimme more more more »
From this story:
A Nebraska man who once weighed more than half a ton has lost 321 pounds in a Sioux Falls hospital, with a goal of losing another 450 pounds....Dignity ain't what it used to be, apparently.A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed.
Tip of the hat, a wink, and a nod to Jo for pointing this out.
Have I mentioned how much I love these guys?
Tonight's episode was the idiotic War on Drugs.
Amazing, someone whose drug of choice is a nice, cool Fat Tire (as opposed to a fatty) thinks the War on Drugs is the height of governmental stupidity and its best effort yet at telling you and yours what is good for you, because, clearly, you're too damn stupid to figure it out for yourself.
Ya dummies.
Update: You know, this post scanned a lot better while I was intoxicated. Oh well.
Twin one: "How do you feel?"
Twin two: "A little light-headed."
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
Once again, science puts right what the infallible and ever-so-perfect Intelligent Designer inexplicably just fucked right the hell up.
Yes, Senator Kerry, let's rely on the United Nations, our international allies, our global brothers-in-arms, to help us with the hard job of making the world safe for democracy, freedom, and dirty movies on late-night cable.
They can't even be bothered to defend themselves:
UN officials said member states refused to contribute to a proposed force that would protect a UN mission in Baghdad. The mission was meant to mark the return of the UN presence in Iraq after a year's absence and help organize and monitor national elections in January 2005....The United Nations: Keeping the world safe, so long as it doesn't involve any of that "danger" stuff."We haven't had much success attracting governments to sign up for the dedicated force to protect the UN personnel in Iraq and our property," Annan said. "So for the time being, for practical measures, we have no other choice but to rely on the multinational force."
I always thought it was the right-wing that made a big to-do over race not being important. But then... how to explain Alan Keyes?
Republican Alan Keyes ripped into Democratic rival Barack Obama's views on abortion Monday, calling them "the slaveholder's position," as the U.S. Senate race roared back to life in Illinois.At least he avoided the over-used comparison to Uncle Tom, so kudos to Mr. Keyes.
Mr. Keyes continued by saying that he was the true inspiration for the "black Jesus" that J.J. painted on "Good Times" and everyone should vote for him because he is, in a word, "dyno-mite!"
It's hard to seriously wear the mantle of liberators when we adopt a policy of willful ignorance.The national guardsman peering through the long-range scope of his rifle was startled by what he saw unfolding in the walled compound below.
From his post several stories above ground level, he watched as men in plainclothes beat blindfolded and bound prisoners in the enclosed grounds of the Iraqi Interior Ministry....Soon after, a team of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers swept into the yard and found dozens of Iraqi detainees who said they had been beaten, starved and deprived of water for three days.
The soldiers disarmed the Iraqi jailers, moved the prisoners into the shade, released their handcuffs and administered first aid. Lt. Col. Daniel Hendrickson of Albany, Ore., the highest ranking American at the scene, radioed for instructions.
But in a move that frustrated and infuriated the guardsmen, Hendrickson's superior officers told him to return the prisoners to their abusers and immediately withdraw. It was June 29 -- Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country since the U.S.-led invasion.
As relatives tell it, it was the stuff of Greek tragedy: A love-struck young man threw himself off his balcony Monday, two days after a quarrel prompted his girlfriend -- a member of Greece's Olympic judo team -- to jump from the same spot.Strikes me as more of a Shakespearean tragedy, and if there is anything that Romeo and Juliet taught us, it's to always make sure the girlfriend is actually dead before doing yourself in."He had very intense feelings about the girl. He was very much in love," said Nikos Drakopoulos, a printer who lives across the hall from the couple. "He could not see himself living if she was gone."
Giorgos Chrisostomides, 24, was on life-support at an Athens hospital with injuries to his head and back. His high-school sweetheart, 20-year-old judo champion Eleni Ioannou, was at another hospital in critical condition with multiple fractures to her head and body.Like I said, check for a pulse before taking the elevator up to do your high-impact Greg Louganis impersonation. Rather than being tragic, this whole thing just makes the two of them look incredibly dumb.
Folks, if you have a quarrel with someone you love and then try to kill yourself, you're a dumbass. Hell, if you even threaten to kill yourself to guilt somebody you love into compliance, you're a weeny, little milksop (or the female equivalent).
In other words, leave death to the dying and get on with your life, you emotional basketcases.
God bless.
It's been a while since I updated you good folks on the bizarre right-wingery that is The Greatest Jeneration, and since I picked on the lefties in the previous post, this will balance the political karma of the universe, creating peace, love, and harmony among men* of all nations.
So, without further ado...
On the matter of interim Iraqi PM Allawi, Jen says:
Of course, I thought he had style when I read a few weeks ago that he'd personally executed 6 imprisoned murderers with his own handgun!Yes, nothing says style like a nation's leader taking a gun to the heads of convicts. Sorry, reminds me a little too much of a certain Iraqi leader we deposed last year. While I support the death penalty in principle (but not as a pragmatic matter), it should be a necessary evil, not a pat-on-the-back, three-cheers, vigilante-like display.
For someone to claim that Allawi's action show "style" is a reflection of a sick, sick mind at work.
But we knew that.
Now, for the real fun. Much like Democrats who claim over and over again that Bush is going to get stomped into the electoral dirt come November, despite polls showing a tight race, Jen also doesn't let reality get in the way of her posting or her titles.
To wit:
The end of al-Sadr and his uprising fast approaches, August 8, 2004
"Mookie" starts to cave in Najaf, May 27, 2004
Al-Sadr about ready to cry "Uncle", May 12, 2004
Al-Sadr, call your office...on second thought..., May 11, 2004
"We've deployed 2,500 men around Najaf's city limits to capture or kill al-Sadr when we feel the moment is right." April 18, 2004
That's right, no matter what happens in Iraq it's always progress, even when it's two steps backwards. Perhaps it's some muddled psychology of "wherever we go, there we are, and we're America, so it's victory!" This kind of blind cheerleading may not be as dangerous to our victory in Iraq as the kooky anti-war left's agenda, but it's certainly as simple-minded.
This concludes today's test of the Emergency JenWatch Blog System.
* Figure of speech. No conservatives will be required to hug, kiss, or even sit down next to another man without a "we're not gay" seat between them.
Bush Administration raises terror threat level based on intelligence. Left-wingers declare election-year political stunt, demand justification. Administration attempts to comply.
Oops.
The effort by U.S. officials to justify raising the terror alert level last week may have shut down an important source of information that has already led to a series of al Qaeda arrests, Pakistani intelligence sources have said.Anybody-but-Bush, but at what cost?Until U.S. officials leaked the arrest of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan to reporters, Pakistan had been using him in a sting operation to track down al Qaeda operatives around the world, the sources said.
...after Khan's name was revealed, government sources told CNN that counterterrorism officials had seen a drop in intercepted communications among suspected terrorists.
Update: In case it's not clear, I think releasing sensitive information like this was a bad idea all around. So, shame on them for that.
As I said via e-mail with Jo, if she encourages me to key someone's car, and I do it, then - yes - I'm to blame for keying the car. However, it doesn't mean Jo isn't a huge dick.
All clear? Good.
Penn and Teller's "Bullshit," that is, available at my whim courtesy of Comcast On Demand. I've been spending much of today lending an indentation reflective of the shape of my rear to the sofa cushions while catching up on Penn and Teller's take-no-prisoners attack on the irrationality of the world. You should try it sometime, unless you happen to be irrational and such. Or perhaps especially so.
I'm right now watching the first episode of "American Candidate." It's basically the opportunity to watch a bunch of one-issue zealots (some good-hearted, some whack-jobs) making the case for why they'd be a good President.
All I've learned so far is that Chrissy Gephardt can't defend partial birth abortion to save her life (saying - under direct and pointed questioning - that it's acceptable to kill an infant minutes from birth, which is a morally reprehensible position to me). Sadly, she's off the show now. Thank you for following in Daddy's political footsteps.
Episode 2 comes on later tonight - followed by the most excellent "Dead Like Me." I can't exactly place what I like about Ellen Muth, but like her I do. And Mandy Patinkin is always a pleasure to watch, even if he does have a girl's name that was also shared by my neighbor's dachshund growing up. My name is Mandy Patinkin. I have a girl's name. Prepare to die.
See you in the morning.
A video aired Saturday that purportedly showed an American being