Got a Hoosiers DVD I’m looking to divest myself of. Like new. First $5 takes it. Drop a note in the comments section or email me. update: Until the DVD is gone, try to hold off commenting on this post; I don’t want anyone who might be interested in the movie to miss about because they see a comment and assume the DVD has already been claimed. To those of
March 2005
March 20, 2005
Scenes from my driveway, continued x 54
Deadbeat neighbor: “Good morning! Happy first day of spring to you!” Me: “Is it spring already? Wow. Where does the time go?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Well, uh… Me: “– That was a rhetorical question.” Deadbeat neighbor: “Oh. Whew! Thank goodness.” Me: Deadbeat neighbor: Me: Deadbeat neighbor: “Er, what’s a rhetorical question again…?” Me: “Skip it. Say, is that my newspaper…?”
March 20, 2005
The “Were Dirty Harry a crazy leftist” poem
Were Dirty Harry a crazy leftist, that Scorpio fellow who hijacked the school bus would be out on parole now, eating flank steak & renting The Incredibles on DVD.
March 19, 2005
Saturday interlude
Remember: for every anti-war protester you see today marching in opposition to the introduction of democracy into the middle east, there are literally thousands of people who aren’t quite so totally fucking insane. Enjoy your Saturday, Iraq!
March 18, 2005
“The yin and yang of intimate interpersonal relationships post, 4” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
yin: “For better or worse, remember?” yang: “Sure, I remember. Do you remember how perky your breasts were when I made that promise…?”
March 18, 2005
“One, two, three, four—don’t listen to us any more…!”
Instapundit offers sound advice to those hand-wringers planning to attend tomorrow’s anti-war protests marking the second anniversary of the start of the Iraqi military campaign. I would only add that those attending might also consider wearing bright red noses and big floppy shoes. And pin one of those liquid-squirting fake flowers to their lapels. Because if you really must protest, you may as well dress the part, right?
March 18, 2005
The “how can you be sure that President Bush’s appointment of John Bolton as UN Ambassador was the absolute perfect choice” post
From the World Tribune (via Drudge): North Korea blasted President Bush’s appointment of Undersecretary of State John Bolton, one of the toughest critics of Pyongyang, as new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saying he would only raise tensions in the international community. “The most undesirable person was named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, thus raising tension in the United Nations and international community,” said Choson Sinbo, the newspaper
March 18, 2005
If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s working as an independent contractor
Kerouac: “You don’t seem to get it, man. That so-called ‘hole’ in your roof is supposed to be there. I designed it that way—so that you could see the stars and feel the rain and touch the world. Christ, don’t be such a bourgeois control freak…”
March 18, 2005
What makes Justice Just?
Citing this post from Eugene Volokh, Talkleft’s Jeralyn Merritt, guest posting at Vodkapundit, claims Professor Volokh “stepped in it big time Thursday with an endorsement of Iranian torture.” The post in question comments on the execution of 24-year old Mohammad Bijeh, dubbed by the Iranian press “the Tehran desert vampire,” who was flogged 100 times and then hanged. According to an Iranian news account of the execution, “a brother of