May 2008 Archives

Leroy Jethro Gibbs is my favoritest television show character of all time. He's an asshole with a heart of gold, much beloved of his team in spite of whacking 'em upside the head and scolding "NEVER apologize! It's a sign of weakness."

Today's news shows this leftyloon priest apologizing. Fr. Michael Pfleger is renowned as a Chicago activist who once exhorted an anti-gun crowd to "drag" a gun shop owner from his shop "like a rat" and "snuff" him.

That's ballsy. I totally disagree with him in all ways, but, damn. That. Is. Ballsy.

How can that guy suddenly turn into a wimp?

Political satire, lampooning, mockery is a centuries' old honored tradition. Expressing political views -- even loud, radical ones -- from the pulpit is also an old, honored tradition. In Civil War days, preachers could be heard expounding with throbbing, poetic drama their views on slavery, or secession.

Pfleger's notions on what Hilary Clinton might be thinking seem way off base but, fuck sake, they're his notions to be freely expressed!

Apologize? What a wimp. Maybe someone oughta drag him from behind the pulpit like a rat, paint him yellow, and send him running to the nearest priest hole around so he can hide like the sniveling twit he is.

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After a short tour in the US, Michelangelo's David returned to Europe ...

I'm pretty sure I dated this guy once ...

I'm thinking this might be sound advice:

Stolen from Mark

Just random odd thoughts. Don't mind me. Go on about your business. Thx.

• If you have a handful of vitamins 'n stuff to take in the morning, do not take them along with the very first swallow of a freshly brewed cuppa hot coffee.
• If you cut red meat and dairy from your diet one day a week, sez a study from Carnegie Mellon university, (link leads to Science Friday -- grab the podcast and have a listen) you'd be helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If everyone in the US did this, then the reduction would be far more significant than the reductions realized by the "eat locally" movement. So maybe the Catholic Friday Fish Fry whoozit was ahead of its time?
• Ms. Clinton should remain in the race for as long as she can. That way she can earn "delegate points" for sale or trade later. Won't matter. The dead guy from Arizona's probably going to win the White House. Anyone else as apathetic as I am about all the candidates?
• It's graduation time. My neighbors have kids that are all graduating from college or high school and they're each having separate parties. That makes for plenty of games of beer pong, which would be great if only I could stomach beer. "Sapphire and Tonic Pong" just doesn't have the right ring to it, either, dammit. Anyway, high school/college grad makes sense. Some friends' are expected at their granddaughter's eighth grade grad. If that's not way iffy, a cow-orker's headed for his daughter's sixth grade graduation -- sixth grade "graduation" is not a new concept. At least we don't have Prom for first graders. Yet.
• This is not Murphy, but could be my rascally pup if I had a pool slide I left running all day:
  

Mark said "More dog pics!"

Sorry guys, but I'm afraid I have to post a couple more dog pics. Hey, it's not like I have a choice, here.

Taken with the new camera which, by the way, arrived in an 8"x8" box.

Click to biggify

Comments should be working again. That reCaptcha plug-in really messed things up and I did not completely remove it when I thought I had, hence all the commenting issues.

Thanks for your patience

Peeps 'preciating pics of puppies please peek. Pet-hating poopyheads, push off!

Prairie dog photos stolen from websites. Puppy pics all taken with my sucky cell phone camera. Still waiting for my new Exilim!

The pups were intrigued by a neighbor's plastic owl. The owl is there presumably to scare away pigeons that would otherwise nest on the roof and poop in the pool. Or something. My girls did their best, barking, jumping, cajoling, pleading. Wants owl naow.

With that same dedicated impatience, I am obsessively impatient for the new camera I ordered. While I was on Amazon, I ordered a memory card to go with the camera.

:: foot tapping ::

Fucking delivery truck stopped in front of my house today and the stud-muffin delivery guy jogged up the walk to hand me a camera sized package. Ohboyohoboyohboy!

I ripped it open only to find ... just the 4G SDHC card burrowed in wads of brown paper.

Dammit.