today's quote

By the most narrow of margins, Costa Rica had elected a conservative president, and though Moe was worried that the enlightened little nation would now be led down the the path of relentless, sordid moneygrubbing (which seems to be the principle activity of conservative societies everywhere), he was too wise to let politics spoil his ongoing honeymoon with Karla and with life.

Tom Robbins, in "B" is For Beer

sunday night at the movies

The Brother showed me this.

Merry Christmas!

What? You knew I was a geek.

Props to Samurai Frog

from The Boy

sigh

Well, let's see if Reconciliation makes this turd smell any swee..., less fou.., less like the putrefaction of a hundred million dreams.




The more things stay the same, the more things stay the same.

I love Al Franken, too

Al Franken has found his place, I think. I never cared much for him on Saturday Night Live. His books were full of good information, but unfortunately levened with smug mockery, and his radio show mostly struck me as be more about Al Franken than anything else. Everything I've seen or heard from him on the Senate floor, though, has been golden*.



Props to Dusty



*Admittedly, I dont watch him in a groupie-like manner, so maybe he's no better there, but I'll stick with my story for now.

by request:

My opinion of the health care bill is as follows.

It is a total screw job. As far as I'm concerned, we are officially nothing more than glorified serfs working in sweatshop America. Unless, of course, you happen to be a member of that exclusive country club, Management. If, God help you, you happen to actually produce something tangible for a living, your job, your wages, your very life is irrelevent to Management, except as a number on a balance sheet.
Work, actual production, is valued so little in America that those who do it are both pitied and scorned. Those people also happen to be the same ones who need a national public health plan, and they are the same ones who will get nothing but a bill from our corporate welfare state.
We have ceased to have a government that cares for its people. We now have a government that cares only for its corporate "citizens", and those lucky enough to benefit* (healthily) from them. How else to explain the idea that we can somehow cut medical costs by maintaining (growing, actually) a useless layer of for-profit bureaucracy? At every level of our medical system, profit will be the primary motivator, only then followed by patient care. We'll be lucky if we can manage to maintain our number 37 place in the world's scale of health care, and we'll be paying through the nose (even more than we do now) to do so.



* This does not refer to people "lucky" enough to have a job.

sigh

Sorry there hasnt been much Daveaway activity lately. Not only have I been working the day shift rather than at night and so I cannot do as much (read: any) blogging there. And to be honest, I did a pretty substantial amount of my blogging while at work.
Then, too, I find that I'm rather bored with the whole thing right now, though the banners are still a lot of fun.

The boredom wont last though. Or the day shift wont. One of the two.

wednsday cartoon

see more at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

(addendum: I hope Zach Wiener will forgive me, but I changed the format from four tall to two by two square.)

christmas gift suggestion

If anyone out there is wondering what to get ol' Daveaway for Christmas, well, here's a little suggestion. The top goes down, it's a classic, and it gets around 35-40 mpg in town.

And, did I mention, the top goes down.