Deadbeat neighbor: “Happy 4th of July!” Me: “Same to you.” Deadbeat neighbor: “Yeah, I went out and bought some of that bunting this year. The red white and blue kind. I ran it along the fence out back.” Me: “Good for you. How you doing on macaroni salad?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Macaroni salad, shit, I knew I was forgetting something.” Me: “Well, there’s always next year.”
July 4, 2004
Liberal media bias? The hell you say!
From Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist (and frequent blog bash attendee): “Researchers surprised by liberal bias of media” “People trying to persuade others to adopt their views are very likely to cite think-tank experts who agree with them. And the liberal lobbying group Americans for Democratic Action (their description of themselves) regularly grades politicians from 0 to 100 based on their votes on selected issues, with the most liberal
July 4, 2004
Liberal media bias? The hell you say!
From Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist (and frequent blog bash attendee): “Researchers surprised by liberal bias of media” “People trying to persuade others to adopt their views are very likely to cite think-tank experts who agree with them. And the liberal lobbying group Americans for Democratic Action (their description of themselves) regularly grades politicians from 0 to 100 based on their votes on selected issues, with the most liberal
July 4, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (seventeenth in a series)
Xerox Candy Bar Michael Moore poem Ah, you’re just a copy of all the candy bars of all the ‘Michael Moore is a bulging sack of mottled lipids’ poems I’ve ever eaten written.
July 3, 2004
US Marine Reportedly Decapitated
Cairo, Egypt – An Iraqi militant group is claiming it has beheaded a U.S. Marine of Lebanese descent, and taken another hostage. The claim comes in a statement posted today on an Islamic Web site. The Marine from Utah, Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, appeared blindfolded in a videotape aired last month on the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera. Militants threatened to kill him unless the United States released all Iraqis in
July 3, 2004
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, abridged, 3
Yeah, that sounds really really good. Close to perfect, even. Now just sit back, take a deep breath, and enjoy the hummmm. Okay?
July 3, 2004
My brief conversation with Senator Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) Grand Kleagle hood
me: “So. You’re Senator Byrd’s infamous Kleagle hood, eh? You’re even pointier than I expected.” hood: me: “Right. So tell me, is it true that Senator Byrd’s favorite snacking food is ‘cornpone’? Because I have it on good authority that the Senator is a cornpone fiend.” hood: me: “– Which, what exactly is cornpone, anyway? Is it like a, y’know, a corn bread, or something….?” hood: me: “…Or is it
July 3, 2004
My brief conversation with Senator Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) Grand Kleagle hood
me: “So. You’re Senator Byrd’s infamous Kleagle hood, eh? You’re even pointier than I expected.” hood: me: “Right. So tell me, is it true that Senator Byrd’s favorite snacking food is ‘cornpone’? Because I have it on good authority that the Senator is a cornpone fiend.” hood: me: “– Which, what exactly is cornpone, anyway? Is it like a, y’know, a corn bread, or something….?” hood: me: “…Or is it
July 2, 2004
Fourth in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this post, Teresa Heinz Kerry will have purchased a small Pacific island, then fired four members of her kitchen staff “because the little shits dared look at me.”