Quote of the Day, 11-28-08

It’s dangerous to assume that we can actually see the future by only looking at the technological advances we’ve made so far. –Octavia Butler

Quote of the Day, 11-27-08

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.” -H.L. Mencken Happy Thanksgiving, and may whatever you eat taste very, very good.

Quote of the Day, 11-26-08

“When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism.  We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point.” -Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

Gotta Love Georgia…

…where lawmakers can act like dicks and pretend that they’re “tough on crime”.  Case in point: Wendy Whitaker, 29, has been on Georgia’s sex offender list for more than 12 years.  Her crime?  She performed oral sex on a high school classmate just after turning 17.  The boy was just shy of his 16th birthday.  [...]

Quick Thought on Dick Morris

I was just thinking, as I left my class just before, about Dick Morris.  This is something that I try not to do, generally, but in this case, it was fairly spontaneous.  I remembered how Dick Morris had been on two consecutive covers of TIME, which is not something that happens very often.  The first [...]

Quote of the Day, 11-25-08

“You know spies, bunch of little girls.” -Sam Axe, Burn Notice

Get Your Funny On: Triple Your Pleasure, Triple Your Fun Edition

I think everyone needs a good dose of funny from time to time, just to be able to keep perspective on how life doesn’t totally suck, and how it’s not all about serious stuff and the like.  Therefore, I hereby present the every-so-often recurring feature, Get Your Funny On.  Today, we get a visit from [...]

Quote of the Day, 11-24-08

“I need a Coke and a b***job.” -Random bit of conversation overheard last year in the halls of my old high school

Too Much Bad Stuff (UPDATED)

As I’m writing, I’m watching the 24 movie, and in a commercial break just before, I saw an two interesting commercial(s).  One by the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee), basically accusing Jim Martin of enabling child prostitution and drug dealers who hang out near schools.  And then I saw a Jim Martin commercial accusing Saxby of not [...]

Republicans in the Wilderness

As I stated before, there is no doubt that the Republican Party will be spending some time on the outside looking in.  The only thing they can do at this point is to determine how long they’ll be out of power.  And of course there are all sorts of suggestions flying around, and a lot [...]