Avoid the Olympics on NBC. They suck. And it’s all about the people story. What about the sports? Who won the archery? The judo? The women’s weightlifting? Who knows if your watching NBC. You’ll learn more about the adversities of the atheletes than about their sport or their competitors.
“Stop using your hands, Skip, and start using your head.”
Moe (Thelma Ritter), Pick Up on South Street
Sometimes political commentators can be blowhards hard to listen to and to take seriously especially if they bloviate about the problems of the Democratic party. While not perfect in any sense, and not achieving much for the American people, the Democratic party still strives to make living in the United States better for everyone.
The Republican party? Not so much.
Thomas Frank is supposedly one of the more astute commentators of the political scene. While I don’t doubt that (I had read One Market Under God which was okay), he does put succinctly the problems with the Republican party and the people who come to be its representatives. They are a corrupt bunch of people, because the philosophical underpinnings of the Republican party is corrupt as well. They are beholden not to the people who elect them but to the corporations and the wealthy. They believe government to be THE problem, but still want to work within it. You don’t put the criminals in charge of the police. Why do we do it for our government?
Get this book and see the impoverished ideas of the Republican party.
Oh, shit! I don’t know about you but these nendoroids from Good Smile Company featuring the girls of the SOS brigade is as cute as GEG! Me want.
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Palindromes are just plain fun. I think someone wrote a book that was a palindrome. I doubt that. There are some long ones, but most become gibberish. I have a picture of my VW’s odometer rolling through 100,001 miles. It was cute.
Sometime over the weekend, maybe Saturday night or Sunday morning, this blog went over the 30,000 hits. Now, this is just since I installed the statcounter counter in 2006. This blog has been going on much longer than that, but I doubt that I had hit half that many.
So, unofficially I am saying that we’re at 50,000 hits, but officially, as the statcounter says, we’re just past 30,000.
Thanks to you for making me surpass this milestone. I hope you keep reading and commenting. Thanks for those looking for cool lampshades, Doobie Keebler, News Radio Quotes, School Rumble #283, Tascha Yar naked, Oksana Akinshina naked, and many other search terms that lead you here. Without you, I couldn’t have made it this far.
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure; it is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
Went to the Yard last night. Saw the O’s win one for the first time in a long while. Perhaps my streak of losses is over.
On one pitch a Texas player swung, lost his grip on the bat, and then lost his bat to a fan who caught it. We cheered. Hopefully, the dude’s okay and not hurt from some wooden projectile hurtling his way. At least he got a souvenir. I wonder if the bat is maple or ash?
Are we not men?
We are Devo!
D E V O
Devo, “Jocko Homo”
