betrayal on k-street

I've really got to start watching the Onion.

sunday funny

I dont know if you watch Reaper or not, but two of the characters were having an argument on it about which was better, Garfield or Heathcliff. A quarter century ago, I would have said Garfield, which I recall being really funny once upon a time. Alas, no more.
On the other hand, had they been arguing Garfield Minus Garfield, there would have been no contest whatsoever, because the strip is sheer genius. Okay, sorry, massive hyperbole there, my bad. But it is pretty damn funny.


It's also an example of how really cool things just pop out of the internets faucets from time to time, this one courtesy of a comment by Steve Ely. Thanks, Steve!

DIY

How cool are these?

Okay, not terribly, but my lack of posting anything was getting me down, and I was forced to take an extreme measure.

Sorry.

sunday at the movies

If you grew up with Kermit the Frog and the Muppets (and you probably did) and your soul hasnt been twisted by carefully studied "coolness", then they've probably left some sort of rainbow and daffodil presence in your heart of hearts. Go on, admit it.
Well, this will either feed that a shot of cheap gin, or kill it outright.
Dont say you werent warned.



There's more Sad Kermit here.

Props to Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands.

musings

Why do people believe that Republicans are going to do anything about illegal immigration? If anything is true about the Republican Party, it is that it is first and foremost the party of Capitalism, and that means money. It doesnt take much vision to see that whatever walk they may walk, their "social" legislation never gets in the way of those with money making more money, and illegal immigration makes money. In fact, to the pure Capitalist, anything that does not make a maximum profit is considered unethical, which is why corporate buyouts often occur even when said buyout is bad for everybody but the stockholders.

Okay, I've got a question: In a polygamist society, it seems like you'd have a lot of disaffected unmarried men, since in all of them that I've heard of, it's only good for the gander, not the goose. This means that if the practice were widespread, you'd either have a lot of lonely, angry, single men or a lot of cheating. Seems to me that polygamy only works if the practicing group is small and has an adjacent society to siphon women-folk off from.
Or maybe it works just like money, wherein the guys with all the money get all the girls, (in addition to everything else). When you come right down to it, Republicans ought to be in favor of polygamy, since it's really just sexual capitalism. To insist on "One Man/One Woman" smacks a bit of socialism, doesnt it?

Can you see a time in the future when governments such as Burmas are charged with crimes against humanity, and world powers step in to eliminate the problem? No? Me neither. Seems like a good idea, though. I mean, if there was a city in your state being run by a criminal gang, you'd expect the state cops, if not the FBI, to bust up the gang and return the city to the people's control (Hey! Stop that snickering! Dont think I dont hear you). Call it humanitarian colonialism, where instead of invading a country to steal its resources, we do so to eliminate human suffering.

If Barack Obama loses the nomination and/or the election, it will be because he's played the gentleman card, and in America, the concept of gentlemanly behavior is dead. We've decided that gentlemen are "elitists" and would rather have oafs and bullies make our decisions. Take that England!

You Are Punk Music

You've thought long and hard about what mainstream society has to offer... And you've pretty much decided that most normal things aren't for you. You're creative, expressive, and likely to do things yourself. You are a rebel and a fighter. You'll defend your point of view to anyone.

What Kind of Music Are You?

props to Lydia

quick note

Holster, I'm not blowing you off, and I'm not done with our discussion, I just cannot think right now, too tired, too busy. At some point, though, I'll move that post up the chain, respond, and the game will be afoot, again!

sunday night at the movies

glumbert - He's Dead Jim

You know, I surely loves me some Star Trek (as you may recall).

props to Pooby

change

Is it just me, or is nobody reading this thing anymore? Sitemeter is discouraging, seems that if it werent for my I-pod post of a while back, and that one about popsicle stick trebuches, I'd hardly get any hits at all.

Maybe it's the time of year... Nope, just checked, and last year was chock full'o comments.

sigh. Listen to me, feelin' all sorry for myself.

Maybe if I wrote something remotely interesting from time to time.

Anyway, a new header for the current reality.

musings

Lately I've been too busy (or too tired) to post, but here are some random thoughts that might make the cut to formal post stage someday:

1) Isnt it funny that Republicans seem to hate Muslims so much? Because, in all the world, is there anyplace more conservative than the Muslim part of it? They seems like natural allies.

2) Christianity basically says that God sent his only child to earth to be tortured to death for the purpose of providing a portal for humans to enter Heaven through. This they believe to be true, and yet so many of them resist the idea that millions of years worth of buried CO2, pulled from the earth and burned into the atmosphere, is causing the planet to warm up. Which is the crazier story?

3) Maybe it should be no surprise that religion is involved in national politics. After all, isnt pretty much everything that we know about the national scene second-hand information, at best. We personally witness very little, and so have to take the word of others on what's happening. How does that differ from religion?

4) All anyone has are a few facts gathered in the now. Everything else has been colored by memory or has been recieved second-hand (at best). Truly, even things you witness right now are filtered through your own prejudices and beliefs, and so will be seen differently by someone else. The point here is that we all have merely a shadowy idea of what's going on that's only half-informed. Everything else is filled in by our imagination. It is myth-making. We tell ourselves stories, and believe them to be truth.

Feel free to agree or to tear into me.